Fwd: YEAR OF THE SNAKE - OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

[peiling kao]

Hi Everyone,

I hope this message is finding you well.

I will be presenting a new collaborative work Year of the Snake on November 15-17 at CounterPulse, SF. 

Please see the information below.

I miss you all. Hope to see your lovely face in the show!!

love,

Peiling

For Immediate Release: Monday, October 21st, 2013

Year Of The Snake / www.yearofthesnakeoakland.com / yearofthes...@gmail.com

NEW EDGE presents

Year Of The Snake

a work for dance, music, and text

Year Of The Snake is a metaphor for “cycles of self-transformation”. In an age of hyper-competition and dependent convenience, we lose sight of the personal process and power of self-transformation, and what it takes to enter the process. What it takes to enter the process has much to do with Empathy.

Empathy is a practice. We have to do it for it to be. This requires vulnerability, which requires strength, through courage. These things are in turn built upon positive learning experiences, even as we accept that learning includes an element of trauma; transformation is traumatic. 

Self-transformation concerns the application of the Will upon processes which are already in motion, and always have been. We die. Birth, death - same door. Knowing this, what do we see? Knowing this, what do we want? And what are we doing about it? We have a chance to participate in the shaping, the form, of our own transformation. But it is something we each experience alone or not at all. Such solitude is traumatic. Empathy is the Will acting to harness the inward power of Solitude and send it outward, opening toward, defining space, leaving useful room, useful because empty. Sometimes we practice Empathy in front of a mirror; be gentle with yourself as you shed skin.

As personal perspective changes, the traumatic shedding of old skin, and the acceptance of new forms of understanding, provide useful lessons for compassionately ushering in needed societal progress. You never have a finite number of chances to become, and your becoming helps others do the same. You're not invited. You're inside. It is not as important to get the message as it is to send it. You are invited. This is the spirit of this work.

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DANCERS:

PEILING KAO

NADIA OKA

 JANET DAS

 KRISTIN DAMROW

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YEAR OF THE SNAKE - MUSIC PREVIEW

MOVEMENTS:

The Fight Has No Name; Tragedies Don't Show Us Their Scars

All This We're Each Forced Into; Private Painful Insight

The Best Defense She's Found

Take

The Best Defense, She's Found

To Write Pain Upon This Transient Surface, In Stars

Innocents, Live Life To Blacken These Night Skies With Light

MUSICIANS:

Jason Hoopes - composition, piano, electric bass

Jeanie-Aprille Tang - spoken voice, electronics

Marielle Jakobsons - violin

Emily Packard - violin

Crystal Pascucci - cello

Nava Dunkelman - percussion

Noah Phillips - electric guitar

Elise  Cumberland - singing voice

Leanne Kelly - singing voice

Zeina Nasr - singing voice

Erika Pipkin - singing voice

Jennifer Rannells - singing voice

Text and Visual Images by Karl Jensen

RECORDED BY: Ron Guensche, August 2013, Oakland, CA

MIXED BY: Jason Hoopes

MASTERED BY: Myles Boisen at Headless Buddha Mastering Lab

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KARL JENSEN / VASCULITERRA BOOKS

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photo: Carly Hoopes

L/R: JASON HOOPES (MUSIC) / KARL JENSEN (TEXT, VISUAL IMAGES) / PEILING KAO (CHOREOGRAPHY)

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WHAT:

Year Of The Snake (premiere)

WHERE:

CounterPULSE Theater

1310 Mission @ 9th

San Francisco

WHEN:

Friday / November 15th, 2013 / door 7:45pm / show 8pm / $10-$15

Saturday / November 16th, 2013 / door 7:45pm / show 8pm / $10-$15

Sunday / November 17th, 2013 / door 6:45pm / show 7pm / $10-$15

HOW:

www.counterpulse.org

CONTRIBUTE

Many technological forces we've created in the world isolate and dislocate us from each other, through the guise of convenient access. Empathy is one of the early casualties. We want to invest in its practice and value. We're all here. Cycles. Self-transformation. You have power. You are not alone in your aloneness; neither am I in mine. 

Mortality is the One Great Teacher, the source of all action and all inaction. Our solution to bearing the weight of this acknowledgment lies in experiencing transformation willfully, what we'll call Feardeath; the re-illumination of fearful shadows cast when our light strikes objects we've allowed constructed in our minds. These shadows resist our becoming. These are the shadows cast by I Can't, I Should/Shouldn't, and I Know. We want to dissolve these shadows with the lights of I Can, I May, and I Do Not Know. We will cast new shadows. The process continues. Shedding skin. You will do it, or it will be done to you.

Thank you for listening.Thank you for your time and energy. Be well.

Sincerely,

Jason Hoopes
Peiling Kao
Karl Jensen

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