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| Photo by Peter Marshall for Surf Coast Times |
"Circles on Waves"
A community drum and dance performance for "Hidden Depths" 2010, High Tide Festival, Torquay, Australia
Our inspiration came from our Full Moon gatherings each month at Cosy Corner, observing the Moon as she dances, making circles, on the waves on the shore.
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| Winter Full Moon gatherings at Cosy Corner |
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| Chele creating her magic |
This song was first taught to me by Santha Press in the middle of Kakum National Park, Ghana, while we were on our Wild Moves' tour.
I then taught it to the Surf Coast community and reworked it to suit our beach environment.
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| Jacqui Dreessens: director for "Circles on Waves" |
I composed a repetitive trance like drum rhythm that the dancers could then improvise around the words of moon, circles, waves, shore adding circular arm movements within a continuous circular clockwise orbit and developed it into a theatrical piece that included the specific site of Cosy Corner.
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| The Moon, she dances, like the waves on the shore |
Demir held the space with his moon shaped daf drum connecting his sound with the Wildmovers holding the space under the moonahs with the djembe drum.
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| Wild Moves under the moonahs |
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| Moon Goddesses: Kylie, Chele, Jessica |
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| Photo by Peter Marshall for Surf Coast Times |
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| Jacqui's Moon Headress. Photo by Lyndy Jeffery |
Our feature was the recycled talking drum skins that were reshaped to reflect Cosy Corner's found objects that were reworked into a Moon headdress or pendant for the dancers or drummers.
The art work was first presented at WearArtrageous in Sept, 2010
http://wildmovesevents.blogspot.com/2010/09/wearartrageouswild-moves11-september.html
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| Jessica, Demir, Fee Photo by Peter Marshall for Surf Coast Times |
Dancers and drummers also wore black and white to reflect the light and dark side of the Moon.
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| Lyndy, Jacqui, Jill, Michele |
Thank you to our wonderful Wildmovers who were also roped in from Ocean Grove, Singing for Fun: Michele Barnes who kept our chant going and our magnificent diva Wendy Grouse who sang out loud in the audience.
All our singers made arm gestures in unison that reflected the pathway of the Moon dancing on the shore at Cosy Corner.
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| Kylie, Annalies, Oliver, Bruce, Rob |
There are beautiful photos at Peter Marshall's web site of our Moon Goddess dancers
http://www.petermarshallphotography.com/0-HighTiDeFestival-20101204/index_5.html
I love how we all collaboratively wildly wove everything together on the one day. Just like the Moon magically links everything together as it rises over Cosy Corner, Torquay on the Surf Coast.
What a magical evening. What a great place to live.
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| Honouring our beautiful Hidden Depths: "Circles on Waves" |
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Part of the Hidden Depths theme was the Greek dancing.
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