Bharata Natyam
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avadI am a spoiled, spoiled girl.
I received so many lovely treats this xmas I can't begin to recount. but I'll try.
Some highlights were right off my wish list and me oh my how I wanted these and now they're in my hands!:
The Poetics of Gardens
Annie Dillard poetry: Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
DVDs: Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi
Waking Life
and A DVD I've never seen called Planet Earth: Australia...which is visions of the Earth from Space!!
Some new fuzzy pajamas...and some superfabu-fun stripey armwarmers and legwarmers from my wittle mofu....;)!!
Then the most thoughtful and lovely mega-surprise from B....
Something I really did not expect at all. Something I've dreamt of for years...and yet for some reason never moved forward on....so he did. :)!
He set me up to finally work with a teacher of Bharata Natyam Classical Indian Dance!!! :):):):)
You see...It's a little hard to explain..but I've been strangely and strongly drawn to a certain temple in Tamil Nadu...the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai. It is where I want to travel to with him later this year for our honeymoon. I'm not sure what it is about this place, but I must go. And I feel it will be auspicious to have our wedding/union blessed in this way. (I also look forward to the blessing of the temple elephant!!:)
And within me...I feel..there is for some reason...an Indian dancer and an Indian singer. These movements and poses feel so strangely natural and it's like I'm holding something back...I know it and B knows it.. it seems I'm supposed to do something with this...so..*deep breath*. here goes one part.
Bharatha Natyam IS the temple dance of old.It is devotional. And what I do in my artworks I must also do in dance, in movement. It must just be another necessary form...Invocation and prayer and praise and a moving through mandalas........
I'm so excited.:) Our sessions will begin in the Spring. a pic and another short description
eep!:)!
I received so many lovely treats this xmas I can't begin to recount. but I'll try.
Some highlights were right off my wish list and me oh my how I wanted these and now they're in my hands!:
The Poetics of Gardens
Annie Dillard poetry: Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
DVDs: Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi
Waking Life
and A DVD I've never seen called Planet Earth: Australia...which is visions of the Earth from Space!!
Some new fuzzy pajamas...and some superfabu-fun stripey armwarmers and legwarmers from my wittle mofu....;)!!
Then the most thoughtful and lovely mega-surprise from B....
Something I really did not expect at all. Something I've dreamt of for years...and yet for some reason never moved forward on....so he did. :)!
He set me up to finally work with a teacher of Bharata Natyam Classical Indian Dance!!! :):):):)
You see...It's a little hard to explain..but I've been strangely and strongly drawn to a certain temple in Tamil Nadu...the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai. It is where I want to travel to with him later this year for our honeymoon. I'm not sure what it is about this place, but I must go. And I feel it will be auspicious to have our wedding/union blessed in this way. (I also look forward to the blessing of the temple elephant!!:)
And within me...I feel..there is for some reason...an Indian dancer and an Indian singer. These movements and poses feel so strangely natural and it's like I'm holding something back...I know it and B knows it.. it seems I'm supposed to do something with this...so..*deep breath*. here goes one part.
Bharatha Natyam IS the temple dance of old.It is devotional. And what I do in my artworks I must also do in dance, in movement. It must just be another necessary form...Invocation and prayer and praise and a moving through mandalas........
I'm so excited.:) Our sessions will begin in the Spring. a pic and another short description
eep!:)!
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Date: 2005-01-03 06:58 am (UTC)Congratulations on the lessons! And the future wedding!!! i expect to see videos of progress ;o)
I've always been drawn to Capoiera... it's flow seems like it could be natural to me... but it will take a massive effort to manifest!
Happy New Year!
~Anztac
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Date: 2005-01-04 08:04 am (UTC)Some friends from Brazil came here...and wow..they were jumping and flipping and doing amazing things on a trampoline...hee..mesmerizing to watch. They tried to show me how to play the instrument..the birambau...but I'm no good at it.ah well.;)
DO it!:)
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Date: 2005-01-03 04:44 pm (UTC)And good luck dancing. I can relate to the feeling that part of you is tied elsewhere.
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