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Vangeline Creation
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Vangeline Creation
Emerson wrote in his celebrated essay "Self reliance" that:
"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. Whoso would be a man, must be a non conformist. Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of our own mind."
Whether we explore the Self through words, images, music or movement, we symbolically offer to others a vision and a statement about that which we are. We help define and shape collective ideals by undertaking this journey into ourselves.
This undertaking requires rigorous honesty, and a desire to explore without relying on the opinion of others.
Through the creative process, shedding various masks and layers of conditioning can lead to more honesty. When we are stripped of our defenses, we can offer our best. We become capable of intimacy and humanity. It is true in life as well as on stage.
To quote Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim. ”the more mechanized and fragmented the world around us, the more we must develop the humanity of human relations. The more we live in a mass society, the better we must know how to have intimate relations.”
The Dance:
Trance of becoming.
The fact of the dance verifies the soul's lust for otherness.
As we wander through the visions of our many facets we but demonstrate our thirst for what lies beyond.
The Answer:
the wind blew across the water.
The world woke up.
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