Monday, 15 June 2020

Connect & Create Music Choice week 11 ....and dance links

A very random mix, this week pick and mix!
Enjoy!

Shallal 2 are currently stretching their wings and happy to have old friends rejoin us!
Lisa Mortensen who covered my maternity leave 12 years ago came along!
and has suggested some great tunes

Brown Rice by Shadowfax As you were talking about comedic music yesterday, I remembered this song from my days at Annexe Arts

More songs from Shadowfax - good for shapes

Prez Prado - good for humour and lifting the energy

Jo- Social dance

Demelza's suggestions

Jo- Themes

I listened to this list again and decided it needs a challenge..

Demelza's again....

Jo- In memory of Marjorie and with love to Zoe

add on....

Anna and i listened to Einaudi 'Seven Days Walking'' on our way home in the car travelling through Somerset what joy! and I found this

Dance links and thoughts
Kirstie Simson

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/forceofnature

really interesting some of her perspective around dance, life and performance i find myself resting within some of her view and in Wolfgang's ethos and outlook, extraordinary how much ones early 20's affect you?

I watched her perform with Julyen Hamilton at Dartington in early 80's and it has stayed with me all my life such playful joyful robust ( really highly skilled) contact improv.

Anna and I looked at some of these...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMofhpopp8w&t=207s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9UrOGpAsqE

And then there is ...PINA, a must see...
(and a good essay about it we posted some years ago
https://shallal-arts.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-love-creativity-and-excitement-around.html)

and in the background interesting links and conversations starting ....
Doughnut Economics research

. https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-blogs/2020/05/ubi-basic-income-covid

Friday, 12 June 2020

Thomas's poems

Thomas Remnant
of Liskeard 'Out There' group
wants to share these poems with others in Shallal.

The colour of Spring

The colour of Spring shine in different way of

the way I like, showing around what's it brings

Of the Light from flammable sun shining through

The colours of flowers grows in different

way

and let it stay with plenty of Power

Also pollen from busy bees

buzzing away in

Yellow and Black

That Spring is so mellowed

The colour of sky so warmed

and settled in the air

Always bring breeze

and the lamb bounced

on the colour of green

grass

Seal of Looe

Imagine yourself the way you felt

Touching a wave upon your feet

Or paddle, swimming upon

on a bigger wave

Something you can feel

Is cold and salty

The seaweed is rusty

as green brown

Moving the way of

a wave and

soft to touch

Specially around

sea animals

Fishes, crabs, sharks

Seals, Dolphins are

to play in the

Ocean.

Art Zoom Fridays feedback

Email straight after Friday Art Zoom session...

Hello Jo, Colin, Barry and even single person at Shallal.

Please forward, post, put in grant applications, whatever!

Wow! What a fantastic, marvellous, magical, vibrant, vital, wonderful, inspirational, motivational, awesome, amazing, positive, energetic, diverse, totally whole, beautiful, truly inclusive of every single fantastic, unique, talented ......... (add your own superlatives .....) SPECIAL IN EVERY WAY! group of people Shallal is.

All singing, All dancing, All - Everything!

Such fun and joy which filled the room, still does, with rich multi-coloured dancing patterns of energetic living light weaving patterns like the travelling Rainbows from a multi-faceted spinning hanging Crystal. My Mind Body Spirit is filled with enough pure Creative Life-changing Pure Love to illuminate and change the World. CV-19, and the dark clouds with torrential rain outside, which I quite like anyway, are suddenly irrelevant. Sunshine surrounds and fills me.

This Is Real Life - the potential which every person carries inside to Bring, Share, Give, Exchange is so limitless. I feel so very lucky to be part of it. My precious Home surrounds me, I have the priceless love and support of my family but Shallal is irreplaceable.

Thank You All from the Depths of my Heart for enabling and empowering All of Us.

Enjoy your week, see you All Soon.

Love and Light and Huge Hugs

"It don't matter what the weatherman say ....." ".... and I think to myself What a Wonderful World!" and All That Jazz,

Cue for Fanfare for The Common Man and pot of Earl Grey.

That's great and many aspects so highly relatable.

I wholeheartedly agree, what a lovely session that was.

It was so great to re-connect and see some new faces. I need more Shallal in my life and really hope I can be involved with some of the art stuff again moving forward.

Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Connect & Create Music Choices week 10 and video links

Playlist week 11
made the list and then go this "from my girls"
latest fun tune...

warm up reaching deep down for movement

Walk on By
moving around greeting each other through Zoom or in our imaginations! or...

fast, use some of it and or

Bonobo Flutter

piano or cellos i couldn't decide so.... either
or
or piano....

serious overacting

THEME
Thanks to Demelza for
reminding me of this one.
Hope to have it played by a French pianist so we can make film to it! with Demelza, Miles & Eddie....

Theme....Bonobo - Pick Up

winding down stretching out....George Winston - Summer

slowly stretching out stillness and others..enjoy...

looking for links of what i sing i found this one which we did at the very beginning of Shallal Dance theatre when we performed Glimpses in Truro Cathedral...

Links
'On the Line'
Shallal Dance Theatre at the Acorn 12 years ago!
https://vimeo.com/2428140

Just for a laugh, an oldie- our Colin with Katherine Sheer, filmed by Phil Jacobs
https://vimeo.com/102922405

New dance upload with Debs and Anna to "Dancing in the Evening Skies"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pmCUsoHsR8
after i uploaded i remembered them both dancing in Red this beautiful film of Barbara's.
Red https://vimeo.com/67321025

listen to Jo L in this....
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1588409857982441&id=174998955990212&__tn__=%2As%2As-R

Wednesday, 3 June 2020

current thoughts...

So...
this morning i had a really good chat with Nick Fripp a trustee...
checking in about our Risk Assessing, as lockdown is potentially easing?...

We have a 3 fold Risk Assessment considering: the individual, the group and meeting place, and Shallal's overall policy...
......which is responsive and keeping up to date - which isn't easy in our present political climate.
(A friend feels it is led more by politics than medicine.)

We now have a Covid 19 Briefing which enables us to share information and is constantly being updated...

So so sad to see this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-52891401
... Debs has voiced concerns about from the beginning, the fact that many of the caring supports that are usually in place in the NHS ( when people with learning disabilities go into hospital) 'aren't'? able to be provided, in this emergency situation.
Inclusion means making equal (equity) not providing equal ...

i was looking for the first one and then found the following 2!

we do need a system change...

Projects are blooming under the skill, sensitivity and enthusiasm of those leading them..

Claire Mayle with Shallal Sketchbooks

Parcel Post the studios new outreach project is beginning with Lou and Phoebe.

Shallal Dance Theatre's Art and Production afternoon slot has become

Shallal Art Zoom meeting for people across Shallal hosted by Barry Cooper, and with artists from West Cornwall to Liskeard joining in.

Shallal 2 goes international with Lily and Nicky from the hilltops of Southern Spain, to a garden in Scotland with old Shallal colleague Shelley joining in after work!

Pep pops into Open House Penzance and Shallal Dance Theatre whilst the concrete is mixing on his building project in Catalonia!

so thanks to modern technology we keep in touch.

However equality and equity come into all these equations.

We are very aware that not everyone has access to technology some by poverty, some by choice.

We also phone chat & send post.

Monday, 1 June 2020

Connect & Create Music Choices week 10

Hi
This week Harry Theaker is guest artist with Shallal Dance Theatre, so we will use this for week 11...
New video up on You tube

MUSIC CHOICES
inspired by Colin asking for more "clown" type choices!

stretching out gently...

for the fun of it, moving around more...to...

Humoresque - Itzhak Perlman and Yo Yo Ma

buster keaton

Cheek to cheek. .....stretching, moving and relating to others, dance with cushions, pillows/props, chairs, brooms.....

do what you like....consider characters/acting/speed

Paragon Ragtime Orchestra - Buster Keaton finale

Greetings, using the space...stop.... start, silly walks?

Monty Python's Flying Circus: Intro Theme Music

Theme - Open Improvisation: working alone, with others, being still, watching

Música Para Cine Mudo (charles chaplin)

Theme Option Shallal 2 - sustained shapes relationship

Portico Quartet - "Endless"

Themes Theme - option....Open Improvisation - Shallal 2?

Theme Option - Rushing

Winding down... face hands....pacing .....stop start rest watch start again..ragtime blues guitar

wind down...stretching out....reaching out to others or own...

blues relaxation