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MAPLE STREET DANCE SPACE and FARAWAY IS CLOSE
present A SPECIAL WORK-IN-PROGRESS PREVIEW OF THE GOOD MANNERS OF COLONIZED SUBJECTS a solo play about a human animal, fragmented by colonization, who journeys through memoir and myth to confront fear and reclaim lost poetry and dance, indigenous to her spirit, collective to the species. Written and performed by India-born, New Mexico-based artist Shebana Coelho, it interweaves poetry, monologues, improvisation and choreography drawn from flamenco and Indian classical theater and dance. At a time when the lingering effects of colonization are manifesting in fraught conversations about borders and fear of the other, this fierce and cathartic narrative unravels the insidious ways colonization works inside and outside the skin, through culture, history, emotion and offers a healing alchemy of metaphor and movement. SUN, NOVEMBER 24 at 1PM MAPLE STREET DANCE SPACE - back studio 3215 Central Ave NE, Albuquerque Duration: approx 75 minutes. There will be a brief interactive session with the artist after the performance. Tickets $12 ONLINE via Brown Paper tickets (link above) We encourage you to purchase tickets online. $15 CASH AT DOOR AS AVAILABLE **LIMITED SEATING** 
The umbrella organization for the play is Faraway is Close, a new cross cultural experiential project founded by Shebana Coelho, that offers creativity and writing adventures to nurture "the stories under the skin, indigenous to your nature, the stories only you can tell."
The play has been workshopped in Santa Fe, Honolulu, Hawaii, American Samoa, Gravity Hill Farm, NJ. Most recently, excerpts were presented at the Pan Asian Repertory Theater's Nuworks festival in New York City. "This incarnation of the play was developed in collaboration with former Maple Street Instructors Alice Blumenfeld and Aparna Sindhoor - many of the first gestures of choreography found shape in the front studio! I'm grateful for the beauty and inspiration of the space, for Romy for holding and creating and sustaining that space and the wisdom and insights and talents of Alice and Aparna in helping me manifest this play which continues to deepen my journey..." -Shebana Coelho 
Mera Nam, Name, from The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects photo by Genevieve Russell
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For more info, visit the play page Read an interview featured on Stance on Dance, Emmaly Wiederholt's wonderful site See us on FACEBOOK Visit MAPLE STREET DANCE SPACE SIGN UP FOR OUR MAILING LIST TO STAY CONNECTED 
      inLAND is a day-long retreat on Sunday, September 15 from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm. The retreat cost is $130. We have space for 15 beloveds. Please register early to ensure your place.
  SHEBANA COELHO is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, originally from India, who has conducted Faraway is Close cross-cultural creativity workshops in New Mexico, Hawaii, Mongolia and American Samoa. She received a Fiction Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Fulbright to Mongolia. Her stories, poems and articles have been published in US and international journals and her multimedia documentaries have been broadcast on BBC Radio Four, Public Television (PBS), and the Discovery Channel among others. More about Shebana > DEBORAH LITTLEBIRD is co-founder of Hamaatsa, an indigenous continuum and sustainable living farm where she facilitates storywork camps and contemplative retreats on a 320-acre wild land sanctuary. She is the producer of Slow Story which perpetuates the orality of tribal American people for future generations by bridging this ancient technology with today's digital technologies. An herbalist, botanical farmer and farm-to-table chef, Deborah shares her passion for plants and food as medicine. More about Deborah > inLAND is a new incarnation of the creative collaboration between Shebana Coelho and Deborah Littlebird that began with the Hamaatsa Story Video, Heirloom Food and Story and Slow Story Series.  HAMAATSA is an indigenous continuum, wild land sanctuary and hermitage retreat on 320-acres of environmentally protected aboriginal lands in the rolling Juniper foothills of the Ortiz Mountains, near Santa Fe, New Mexico. www.hamaatsa.org
FOR MORE INFORMATION littlebird@hamaatsa.org / 505.379.2598 "Sharp barbs softened by the grace of the mind and body and hands like fluttering birds moving through the fire of flamenco was a perfection." "it resonated strongly; flamenco's force and connection to source (a wordless language that will not be silenced) vying with colonialism's proper diction and dominance." "Your very personal depiction of the struggles of culture and colonization was very profound. I especially like the way you helped us understand fear, and in your own way, confront it. " - audience response to NuWorks performance at the Pan Asian Repertory Theater            Gratitude for all the collaborators and consultants
who helped shape this performance: Fernando Barros Lirola Alice Blumenfeld Deborah & Larry Littlebird Aparna Sindhoor Tan & Jivan Coelho Jayant and Kaveri Kalawar Special thanks the Navarasa Sadhana workshop, G. Venu, Natanakairali Arts Adishakti Arts  suddenly...but really it's been happening for years... suddenly...but really, the path is always unknown... suddenly....but really, the mystery of when, how, what next - that mystery matters suddenly...so much is connecting to so much else.... this solstice of gratitude the dance emerges as speech as song as rune as story the film becomes memory reimagined becomes sitting around a table with kindred spirits who want their own mystery who want to sing too in serving this light that calls to you or the dark for that matter something emerges that only you can live.. that story under the skin indigenous to the species particular to you humming under the breath Sit across the table from the beloved call the flowers by name and they will listen si pudiera decirte lo que se siente, no valdria la pena bailarlo. if I could tell you what it feels like it wouldn't matter to dance it kehta hai kaun nalaay bulbul ko be asar who says the song of the nightingale has no effect parde mein gul ke lakh jigar chaakh ho gaye look closer in the garden, see the flower, the petals torn into a thousand tatters.. ghalib in the garden always there is someone in the garden it was understood in Mongolia that it matters to take the time to sit under the flowers and call their scent to you I remember he was a grandfather and he had a thousand cattle that's how he was introduced to me may you call to you what seeks to bloom may it bloom may it bloom  I'll be performing a 35-minute excerpt from The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects as part of the Pan Asian Repertory Theater's Nuworks festival in NYC - on Wed, June 26 at 7pm; and Saturday, June 29 at 2:30pm. Tickets and Location info here   ...or rather a poem of a few years ago, called THE PARTING OF WIDOWS, published today in this journal called One from Jacar Press which is a lovely community oriented press. And it's a powerful issue, imho. http://one.jacarpress.com/ The "second look" (the last section) is revisiting the Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz The other thing that's interesting about the magazine is that the editors only publish an issue when they find 21 poems that they all like... |
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