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Dear friends / Queridos Amigos
(mais informação em Portuguese em baixo)
OMG! Hope this email finds you well and healthy!
In these crazy but rather expected mad-days
The Earth is asking for our awakening!
Wake Up she says Wake Up!
and we are all in it, part of it, we are all it!
Nature!
How ironic that we have been suffocating the planet for decades and the planet is now suffocating us back, rather obvious init?
So summer is around the corner and we are finally let a bit out to see the beauty that has grown with less pollution while the world economy is screaming for $$$!
So what is more important Life or numbers?
I still feel we are getting this wrong...
or rather that we could adapt it according to our needs
as we are the ones who invented the bloody money system anyway!
I hope you are well, careful, healthy and that you don't let fear or loneliness hit you too hard.
Time has become a great new commodity (for some...) and we now can access so many classes and courses from the comfort of our sofa.
So is this the month of May?
Ironically the sunniest month of May ever!
Without any of the Brighton Festivals on? how strange!
10 years ago the Karavan Ensemble was all over town with its Ship of Fools and its Poetic Madness... haaa!
61 years ago the first Butoh performance by Tatsumi Hijikata was shocking its viewers in a most unexpected dance experience.
It does seem like our live performance profession is rather doomed in these social distancing days but maybe it is time to adapt and find new ways, as our profession is to be creative and do so against all odds.
Yes the show must go on!! And there is much to do to save our future!
scroll down for some news and I sincerely hope we'll meet again/ don't know where don't know when/ but we shall soon meet again!
Much love and sunshine
xxxyael
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Photo by Javi Otero
May 1st - 9th 2010
10 years to the Karavan Ensemble!! 10 years to the unforgettable experience of A ship of fools all over Brighton and in the legendary Coachwerks. We were mad, we were poetic, we had no shame we brought the inner to the outer and the wild to the streets of Brighton. I will never forget these magical days... strange to imagine that 10 years later the streets of Brighton are silent during the month of May... foolish misses and love to you all! xx
'Let your heart be your compass!' Xelis De Toro.
The Karavan Ensemble's debut piece was based on the allegory of a Ship of Fools, aboard which society's 'misfits' are gathered. Through dance, physical theatre, and site specific explorations a band of colourfuly edgy characters came to be. With ample audience participation, the Karavan Ensemble dared its public to open a door within, and encounter the fools that lay inside us all. Originally created and performed in Coachwerks, as part of Brighton fringe festival in May 2010.
Directed and performed by Yael Karavan with Linda Remahl, Bruno Humberto, Ana Fernandez Martinez, Sofia Fernandez Martinez, Rachel Champion, Pepa Ubera, Howard Sivills, Tamar Daly and Marion Deprez. Live music and sound composition by Tristan Shorr. Designer Sara Popowa.
Watch video HERE
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Photo of Tatsumi Hijikata by Eikoh Hosoe
Butoh 61th Birthday
25 May 1959
On 24th of May 1959, 61 years ago, Tatsumi Hijikata (the founder of Butoh Dance) performed with Yoshito Ohno - Kinjiki (Forbidden Colours) – regarded as the first-ever Butoh performance. Happy Birthday Butoh Dance your seeds have spread all over the world and are keeping us rebellious in the face of the growing darkness! this year the last of the 1st generation Butoh dancers passed away on the day of my birthday 😞 Yoshito Ohno, Let's keep dancing it's the only thing that can keep us alive and connect us to each other and to our nature and environment and to our common ancestors. Love to all the Butoh community around the world.. Our dance must go on.. Respect to Tatsumi Hijikata and to his courage, research and constant madness ... to be continued!
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Photo by Rita Vilhena & Yael Karavan
MA-MA
A durational performance created and performed in collaboration with Rita Vilhena
on the theme of Mother Earth and its relation / parallel to a Woman/ Human body.
Dia 6 de Julho 19.30-22.30
no MAPS Festival de artes performativas- Setubal, Portugal.
é uma performance duracional que visa refletir sobre o lugar onde vivemos, o planeta Terra / mãe Terra. Sobre a nossa fragilidade e o perigo eminente ao qual está sujeita a vida na terra, através da pressão do aumento demográfico humano, da nossa ambição desmedida e inconsciente, e também das mudanças climáticas e do aquecimento global. Ver o planeta Terra como um corpo fértil de mulher foi uma metáfora dada em várias tradições que se concentra nos aspectos vitais e nutritivos da natureza ao encarná-la na forma da mãe/ mulher. E agora, que acontece com a nossa mãe Terra, que está sendo submetida a níveis extremos de poluição e emissões de carbon, quantidades escandalosas de plástico, monocultura, etc.. Pretendemos observar os efeitos que as nossas acções e os resíduos das nossas acções têm sobre o nosso corpo. A performance inclui um video criado na zona da Castanheira de Pêra.
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r  Photo by James Bellorini of Holy Cow at Lancing College.
HOLY COW!
Let's Imagine a better Future!
I've recently listened to a podcast saying that Covid19 is calling us for action, that it is no longer enough to clean and take care of the 'fish' but that we need to now to clean the aquarium itself = our Planet! I also feel that these days are a good time to meditate and realise on a personal level (because government are too busy with their own egos, power, Money and disastrous misbehaviours) what habits we can change and adapt, each one of us, in order to take a better care of our Planet because our Planet = Us.
The planet doesn't need us! We are in need of it= our HOME.
So thanks to ACE emergency funding we are taking Holy Cow further this time imagining a better future for young generations, searching for ways to empower them into understanding that all we have is this magical Home and that we must together find ways to protect it.
So watch this space for more info soon to come.
A glimpse into the results of previous R&D HERE
Please also follow our page https://www.facebook.com/HolyCowKaravan/
to get more insight, articles, discussions and updates
Knowledge is power!
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 Photo by Rita Vilhena & Yael Karavan
Empathic Action!
An international Call Out for our Environment
in collaboration with Vincent Ordonenz
Dear friends of the world, in the face of the current pandemic we feel the need to break the silence into action for our planet. We believe that waiting for the political bodies and authorities to take action of these urgent matters is a waist of time and that we need to unite in the face of this crises in order to imagine a better future and protect our environment= ourselves. We therefore feel the need to act together now before it is too late. We believe that we are part of this wondrous nature and that we must start to have more empathy towards it hence towards ourselves. How ironic that we pollute the air of our planet and here comes Covid19 who suffocates us back, reminding us that we are part of the whole, the cause and the effect. As we are now experiencing closure of borders and social distancing we are nevertheless also experiencing, more than ever, how connected we are beyond countries and frontiers. We invite you to join our Empathic Action towards our one and only Home- Planet earth and to add to our Action with you Heart and Art.
We invite you to take part in our E-Action (empathetic action) for the planet by submitting an artwork in response to this theme. This collection of international artworks aims to include as many artists as we can worldwide compiled into an online book/gallery for dissemination across numerous platforms, working through partners, community groups, schools, museums, libraries and shared networks. Viewers will be given the option, but not obligation, to make donations and any funds raised will be given to charities to counter climate change. The works we aim to collect are of an audio-visual nature; we invite works from artists in any discipline across visual, performance, music, poetry and/or tech arts. The collection will be edited to produce a simple but immersive virtual experience taking the viewers’ on an audio-visual journey to encourage empathetic action. We see this present moment as a great opportunity to enforce and profess change, to collaborate as a world community and help protect our one and only home and the life on it.
All works of art (E-Actions) should be sent in JPG or PDF format not bigger than 10 mega
If it’s a video or a film, please send a link or a wetransfer.
To the following address: info@yaelkaravan.com
All right reserved to the artist
Please feel free to spread the word: it is time we break the silence
When sharing your work online please use #empathicactionow to spread faster and wider.
With best of wishes Yael Karavan and Vincent Ordonenz.
We are currently looking for a designer to help us with our website if you can recommend us anyone that would be greatly appreciated.
LINK TO MANIFESTO
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Recommendations from our friends
LIFE LINE2 with Nelly Lewis
Performance & Autobiography Online Workshop
15th of June 11am-13h
Online Performance workshop, using Zoom, with the aim to unlock your creativity, and explore your inner world and how it can be translated into performance. Butoh Dance, physical theatre, object theatre and multi artistic mediums will be explored.
Inspired by the participants autobiography; The workshop integrates body, matter and spirit and will Allow your creativity to go wild.
Discover how your own life can be a source for artistic expression.
During the session you will have the opportunity to reflect and create your unique lifeline performance/dance , all from an intuitive, spontaneous, and authentic state of mind. This spacial online workshop is a unique opportunity to explore a wide rage of artistic forms and start your journey of creation and self expression.
Price- Early Bird ( till the 28.5.2020)- £26
Regular Price- £47
Nelly Lewis is an award-winning mime performer, Butoh dancer and puppeteer based in Brighton, she has calling her work Butomima a performance language she developed since 2004, which is a hybrid of Mime and Butoh, a language that is all about transformation, imitation and truth. Nelly is taking forward the amazing language of mime while opening new possibilities of communicate with or without words. in recent years she was invited to teach at the 'draw to perform' festival where she created the workshop and methodology of ''life line'' combining a range of artistic forms.
FB Link HERE
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