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BREATH MADE VISIBLE Directed by Ruedi Gerber ZAS Film by Lauren Westerfield the resilient, playful beauty with which 86-year-old anna halprin still dances through life lends her the immediate and dazzling power to captivate an audience. in Breath Made Visible, director ruedi Gerber gracefully harnesses this power to create a unique biographical film, one that is as movingly intimate as it is reverential to halprin’s revolutionary achievements in modern dance. Much in the way that halprin first defied boundaries of convention to express organic emotion through movement, so too does Gerber infuse the traditional documentary format with unscripted moments of profound feeling. the result is a lovingly crafted, subtly innovative film—and a fitting tribute to the heart, mind, hands, and feet (never separate for an instant, it seems) that together keep anna halprin in perpetual motion. in chronicling the evolution of halprin’s craft, Gerber integrates images of the dancer’s contemporary life with mesmerizing footage from solo performances, workshops, and the children’s dance co-op held on the now legendary deck that her husband, architect lawrence halprin, created within and around the trees that surround their Marin county home. together, this footage beautifully expresses halprin’s synchronicity with the natural world, the life-art process integral to her movement education philosophy, and the resultant ethos of her and daughter Daria halprin’s work at their healing arts organization, the tamalpa institute. With the passage of time into the tumultuous 1960s, Gerber’s assembly of domestic images gives way to the abstraction and clamor of artistic extremes, activism, and political unrest. yet with each return to that deck—where, to this day, anna continues to dance, create, and teach—we see the strength and spirit of the elemental dervish that still resides within and compels her body, and trees above it, to sway with purpose and intention. the film shifts when anna begins to reflect upon the midlife cancer diagnosis that fundamentally altered her approach to dance. orchestrated with delicacy and raw power, this portion of the film marks a turning point in tone—and an achievement for Gerber in the realization of sensitive yet brutally honest filmmaking. after a cathartic ritual performance (described in conjunction with chilling footage of her “exorcism” or “Dark side” dance), halprin’s cancer went into remission; and from then on her relationship with dance took on a new purpose. she became a pioneer in the expressive arts healing movement, and works to this day teaching terminally ill patients, activists, and the elderly about the healing, introspective power of dance. today, professing a profound respect for the beauty and purpose of the aging human body—and a courageous willingness to perform in the nude as a champion of that body—halprin translates the fundamentals of healthy, conscious living into an accessible and eloquent language. ruedi Gerber conveys this language on screen with halprin’s tone in tact, evoking the transcendent power of dance with enough spirit and spunk to satisfy even the most devoted fans of his luminous subject. www.breathmadevisible.com
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MIXER Integrating Awareness and Movement
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Preston Klik – Top Ten Tracks
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Sensual Core Fitness for Women
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1. BLISS –calling (edit + live melodica) 2. INGRID MICHAELSON –everybody (edit)
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3. BOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS –singh is King (Dhol’n’hips rmx)
October 2010 in Portland, Oregon
4. KELIS –acapella (remix)
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Preston Klik – Chicago Resonance chicago-based sound healer and musician Preston Klik produces creative, open-hearted conscious dance events together with his wife, emily. the invitation-only synphoria events are an intentional journey through the senses, while the public Give Peace a Dance parties are ritual-infused celebrations that include fire-dancing, shamanic readings, and massage. his current band, Karma sutra, is releasing its second cD, Lotus Dance, this fall. Known for his gong washes and crystal bowl invocations, Klik is a master of musical aesthetics. “i’m not a fan of one tempo,” says Klik. “i love to mix moods and genres, styles and energies. i call it ‘one-world lifepositive body-temple dance music.’” www.givepeaceadance.com
5. ZIGGY MARLEY –i love you too 6. LAID BACK –Beautiful Day (Banzai republic rmx) 7. CARAVAN PALACE –Jolie coquine 8. SANJA ILIC & BALKANIKA –Korana (edit) 9. BLACK EYED MADONNA –ray of Feeling 10. MEDIAEVAL BAEBES –scarborough Fayre
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