SEEDS Festival

Welcome to SEEDS Festival PUBLIC EVENTS

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Performances Panel Discussions Film Series Land Use Projects Community Day

Earthdance invites you to participate in SEEDS (Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance + Science) , the first annual three-week festival this July 27 - August 17, 2008. The festival offers workshops, interdisciplinary projects and public events: panel discussions, film festival, land use projects and a celebration. You can participate in the whole festival or attend a portion. See below to learn about our local community events.

PERFORMANCES:
Friday, August 1, 8 pm: Kalaruci . Kalaruci is innertime, the oneness of earth moon sun. Kala is time; ruci is the holy little one in our selves. Performed by Suprapto Suryodarmo (from Indonesia). $5.

Saturday, August 2, 8 pm: Land Mass . A film, sound, and dance piece - created and performed by Daniel Lepkoff. Know nature intimately. $5.

Friday , August 8, 8 pm. La Foret des Signes . Performed by Olivier Besson and Emanuelle Pepin. Noir woodland, strife + sensuality. $5.

Saturday, August 9, 8 pm. Faculty Performances , Western Massachusetts Moving Arts Festival. August 10, 8pm. With Ming-Shen Ku and Dancers (Taiwan), Jennifer Monson (U.S.), Tony Vacca (U.S.), Lailye Weidman (U.S.) and others! $5 At Earthdance. [413] 634 -5678.

Saturday, August 16, 8pm. Extending Infinitely Into Mystery, An Opening to the Unknown Performance. With seasoned dancers Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood, Chris Aiken, Angie Hauser, Stephen Yoshen, and Lani Nahele; Musicians Peter Jones; and Visual Artist Bill Arnold. $10.

Saturday, August 16 - All Day . COMMUNITY DAY CELEBRATION . Including, Hop! Hop! Hop! All ages movement score. Walk in the Woods with Melinda Buckwalter. Dwell The Reweaving teahouse presentation . And performances: Dancing with Forest and Extending Infinitely into Mystery . Recycled Sound Installation. $35 for the day, Kids Free. At Earthdance. [413] 634 -5678.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS:
Tuesday, July 29, 8pm. MAKING SUSTAINABLE SPACES FOR DANCE. With Wayne Ashley, John Jasperse, and Jonah Bokaer (Center for Performance Research, NYC), Suprapto Suryodarmo (Lemah Putih, Indonesia); Andrew Faust (The Center for Bioregional Living, NYC), and Alicia Marvan (Guapamacátaro, Mexico). [By donation]

Thursday, July 31, 8 pm. COMPLICITIES WITH RACISM AND ADVANCING ANTI-RACISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY: IS BARACK OBAMA RIGHT? With Dr. Enoch Page, Associate Professor of Anthropology Department, UMASS. A presentation: 'There is racism in the valley'; and a discussion, 'Is there racism in the Hilltowns?' [By donation].

Tuesday, August 5, 8pm. SCI ART. A panel on the nature of artistic and scientific collaborations. Facilitated by Melinda Buckwalter, with Susan Sgorbati (Bennington, VT), Olive Bieringa (The BodyCartography Project), Bryce Beverlin (Physicist, MN), Tamara Ashley, (Dance and Technology, UK), and Bruce Hooke (design-builder, RI) [By donation].
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Thursday, August 7, 8pm . BUILDING A MOVEMENT. Please join us for a facilitated conversation on class/privilege and its effect on building a socially just environmental movement. [By donation].

Monday, August 11, 8 pm. SOMATICS, AESTHETICS, AND ECOLOGY. The responsivity of the artist to their materials and environment is related to cellular dynamics and ecological systems. With Chris Aiken (dance professor and improviser, Ursinus College, U.S.), Andrew de l. Harwood (dance luminary, Montreal), Marlon Barrios Solano (movement artist and instigator: www.dance-tech.net , NYC), Terre Parker (experimental dance artist, CA), Nala Walla (body-based artist and environmental visionary, WA), and others. [By donation].

Tuesday, August 12, 8 pm. EDUCATION AND YOUTH: ECOLOGY AND EXPERIENTIAL ARTS. With Martha Eddy (Director of the Center for Kinesthetic Education , NYC) Jane Vorburger (Dance and science educator, NYC), and others. [By donation].
Wednesday, August 13, 1:30 pm/ Lunchtime talk. INSURRECTIONARY ECOLOGICAL PLACE-MAKING & SYSTEMIC TRANSFORMATION. With Mark Lakeman (Ecological Designer) [By donation].

LAND USE PROJECTS:
August 4-10. Earthdance Gateway Project. Rammed earth "green building technique." With Bruce Hooke.
August 10-17. Dwell: The Reweaving. Reunion of architecture and moving arts through functional, place-based ceremony. Participate in Twig-tea house construction. With Nalla Wall and Mark Lakeman.

FILM SERIES: Curated by Olive Bieringa
Wednesday, July 30, 8pm : American Perspectives $5
   El Fuego and Light Heat Motion by Becky Edmunds
   Madame 710 by Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom
   Entreterritorios by Marila Veloso and The BodyCartography Project
   Cartoneros by Ernesto Livon- Grosman
Wednesday, August 6, 8pm : Worldly and Otherworldly $5
   Magnetic Cinema by Pierre Coulibeuf + Benoit Lechambre
   Returning Home by Andy Abrahams Wilson and Ann Halprin
   The Call of the Hummingbird by Alice Klein
Wednesday, August 13, 8pm : Moving Bodies, Moving Earth    $5
   Transport by Amy Greenfield
   a place into space by Emeline Seyer
   United and Severed - What Happens in the window of Time by Kristine Diekman and Karen Schaffman
   Keeping the Dance Alive by Rina Sherman
   + more short dance films

SEEDS PUBLIC COMMUNITY CELEBRATION:
The SEEDS Celebration is an all-ages public celebration of our land and our festival's offerings. We will present a host of workshops, offerings, performances, and conversations on arts and ecology. This is a great day to stop by Earthdance see the fruits of the SEEDS we have planted. You are welcome to participate in the daytime workshops and showings, and come to our evening events.