MAE returns to the Studio...

We've been back in the Studio, improvising, playing and discovering more phantastical worlds to bring into the mundane one by creating more moving image video poems. It's Yulia & I this time, joined for one session by two small friends (See earlier video posts, below, of Dancing with the Grandmothers and Phantazein). We were also treated to a surprise visit for our final Spring session, by pioneer dance therapist and expressive artist, Betty Backus. Stills & video from that amazing session coming soon! More sessions with Betty are in the works.

Each time I approach the Studio, lugging boom box, music cd's, tripods, cameras, and assorted props, I wonder, what's going to happen this time? It feels like we've taxed our brains and wrung them dry of ideas; that we've explored every inch of the Studio's dance floor, walls, mirrors, windows, barres, nooks, and crannies, even built some of our own environments to move within. Surely there's nothing more to gain from this place, nothing left to explore & to inspire us here. But more always comes.

I am not really sure why we do this, but it is clear that we have discovered a path with a mind of its own; one which is leading us-- perhaps to some unknown end, perhaps simply for the sake of the journey. But the Way has called us, and in this lovely spring of 2011, we are answering.

For the next few weeks, as I work on editing footage, giving form to what we've done, I will be posting the videos on this blog. I hope many of you will be intrigued by what we have made.

If you can find something in our work that speaks to you, or inspires you, or touches you, or resonates with you... we invite you to leave a comment, a poem, a photo, a drawing, a slip of music... or whatever way you'd like to convey it to us!

MAE's "Dimensional Reconn"

Pianta & Yulia White in "Dimensional Reconn"

Click here to view video:
http://youtu.be/g0sN95W4Nz4 

(And don't forget to leave a comment!!)

MAE explores ethereal, multi-dimensions with movement, light, music & video. Tripping in  time & space...

Phantazein: to make visible

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http://youtu.be/Tz2LM_1NPyQ

Yulia White, Maxx McCarron & Maelee McCarron in Phantazein

Dancing With the Grandmothers

Gwyn Henry, Maxx McCarron, Dancing with the Grandmothers

Click on the link below for MAE's latest moving image poem, Dancing With the Grandmothers:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH-qlqgElA8