i-m-pulse / embrace infinite dance

Nina Simone on Connection and Freedom!

2012-01-20T11:35:00.000-08:00

Tango to Freedom

2012-01-20T10:58:00.000-08:00

Intensive day workshops followed by an informal milonga (an evening dance) for the participants...

with Biljana Lipic

VENUE: Barefoot Barn in Chagford, a wooden barn with views across Dartmoor, situated in 5 acres of beautiful gardens

http://barefootbarn.org

DATES OF WORKSHOPS: 18th Feb & 17th March + more dates to follow...

http://www.i-m-pulse.eclipse.co.uk/page_03.htm

NEW season of Shamanic Tango workshops - starting Dec 2011!

2011-10-25T04:11:00.000-07:00

With excitement I would like to invite you to join us for the first weekend themed:

DANCER AS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THE WORLDS @ Gwenmenhir, Boscawen-noon Farm, St Buryan, Penzance, Cornwall TR19 6EH - beautifully converted , eco-friendly barn, also home of the Wild Food Foraging and Cooking School Fat Hen.

http://www.fathen.org/aboutgoatbarnkitchenoldwashhouse.htm

Fee: £145 per weekend inclusive of food. For those requiring accommodation there are some spaces at the venue, plus other options to stay at the B&Bs nearby. For information and to arrange booking please contact Biljana - T 07966 457 863; E contact@i-m-pulse.com

More about the workshops on the website: http://www.i-m-pulse.eclipse.co.uk/page_03.htm

The Art of Performance - workshop invitation

2011-10-25T03:58:00.000-07:00

THE ART OF PERFORMANCE @ The Exchange, Princes Street, Penzance TR18 2NL

Wednesdays, 9th November - 7th December, 6-8pm.

A series of five practical classes, led by Biljana Lipic, investigating and documenting the use of the artist’s body as art.

The sessions will involve exercises that can prepare the body for a performance based activity as well as explorative, improvisation and game-like structures, done both indoors and outdoors, that can inspire creative enquiry and also serve as a raw material for the photographic and video documenting of the body-centered art.

Reflection and sharing will be incorporated, which at times will be channelled through drawing, writing as well as group discussion.

£10 per session.

Booking and advance payment is essential for these courses. Email bookings@newlynartgallery.co.uk or call the gallery on 01736 363715

http://www.newlynartgallery.co.uk/?Events

Very powerful Clown through Mask training

2011-07-09T08:16:00.000-07:00

Clown through Mask training, London

7 weekends from September 2011 - March 2012

This groundbreaking course, synthesising Native North American and European clowning traditions, uses the power of masks to guide you towards your clown, becoming both beautiful and ridiculous at once.

Over seven weekends, we explore how the clown can act as mirror to the audience’s humanity, by facing and embodying all aspects of the self through each making six masks.

Starting with simple exercises exploring sound, colour, presence and movement, this transformative method combines the unique personas discovered through the masks with work on how to express these physically, vocally and emotionally in performance.

A powerful, playful and exhilarating journey, the training provides a thorough grounding in the art of clowning, and will be beneficial for any performer or artist wanting to connect more fully with your own creative source - your self. No previous experience of clowning is necessary.

The course is led by Jonathan Young, Artistic Director of Shams, whose own practice has been fundamentally informed by this work. He has taught Clown through Mask several times for the London International Mime Festival since 2007 and also for London Metropolitan University.

Dates:
Friday 23 - Sun 25 September (starts 6pm Friday evening)
Friday 14 - Sun 16 October (starts 6pm Friday evening)
Sat 12 - Sun 13 November
Sat 10 - Sun 11 December
Sat 14 - Sun 15 January
Sat 11 - 12 February
Sat 10 - 11 March

Saturdays and Sundays will start at 10am and be finished by 6pm, Sundays finish by 5pm. Please note the course is consecutive, so you are strongly advised to be present for all sessions, especially the first two weekends.

Location: to be confirmed - London (Zone 2).

Fee: £675 / £600 concession (full time student/over 60/unemployed)
Fees include all materials.

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT of £50 if your deposit received before 31 July.

To express your interest, please email Jonathan at info@shams.org.uk with a short letter (not CV) briefly describing yourself, relevant experience and interest in the work. To secure a place, we ask for a non-refundable deposit of £120 (£90 conc).

www.shams.org.uk

Paying it forward..

2011-05-26T03:56:00.000-07:00

Paying It Forward – Healing Earth/Heart Through The Rainbow – Global Healing Event 29/5/11 @ 11:11am UK TIME

To see how to join go here:

http://www.initiationworkshops.co.uk/blog/?p=129

On Spirituality..

2011-03-12T06:51:00.000-08:00

"In perhaps one of its briefest definitions spirituality is about the relationships that we have with our self, with others and with the universe. It is characterized by several key concepts and principles, one of which is that it is paradoxical. Otherwise seemingly opposite conditions, entities or experiences coexist comfortably together. For example, spirituality is both subtle and powerful. It is like our breath. We go about most of our day not even realizing that we are breathing. Yet our breathing is so powerful that if we stop, we die.

Spirituality is personal. Each of us has to discover it on our own, in our own way. It is highly useful, in that it deals with a spectrum of life issues, from learning basic trust to getting free of suffering. And spirituality is experiential. To appreciate it, we use it, to realize it, we have to experience it. We cannot know it ultimately through our intellect or through reason. It is not knowable. It is only be-able.

It is indescribable. It is so vast, that even if we were to read all of the world's great holy books and listen to all of the great spiritual masters, we would still not fathom it. Spirituality is inclusive and supportive. It does not reject any thing. And here is where organized religion may enter, because it is a part of spirituality. Thus, while spirituality is not organized religion, it includes it, supports it and then transcends it.

It is healing and growth-inducing, and thus is ultimately fulfilling..."

- from the book Healing the Child Within by Charles Whitfield

Bruce Lee Philosophy!

2011-01-25T08:52:00.000-08:00

Ancient Understanding of the Heart Field

2011-01-20T15:07:00.000-08:00

Body Eye - new intensive workshops in Dartmoor, Devon, Uk with Biljana Lipic

2011-01-14T13:01:00.000-08:00

2010-11-21T04:12:00.000-08:00

Workshop - Women on Earth

2010-10-05T08:34:00.000-07:00

New Tango website

2010-10-01T09:20:00.000-07:00

Designed by Darrel Sherlock, its a website about our tango activities, classes and events predominantly in Cornwall, UK. Visit us at:

www.tangowild.com

See the events page - our next big Tango event 9th & 10th October in Penzance, with DJ Os!!

Alina Orlova's art

2010-09-28T08:48:00.000-07:00

circus :: little arts Album :: Alina Orlova's Photos | MySpace

Wonderful and very clever video!

2010-09-22T05:11:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=42E2fAWM6rA

Hello and thank you for the chickens!!!!

2010-09-07T05:04:00.000-07:00

Yes it finally happened! The 2nd Chicken Run took place in July this year where 70 more families received two chickens each. Thank you all for buying the pepper!

And get involved please!

NEW SHAMANIC TANGO WORKSHOPS

2010-08-12T04:35:00.000-07:00

20-22 August '10 in Bulgaria

3-5 September '10 in Cornwall, UK

More info: http://www.i-m-pulse.eclipse.co.uk/page_03.htm

We are now also on Facebook - join us at:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=121927851175622

Dance installation on the rooftops of Truro by Angela Praed!

2010-07-14T09:04:00.001-07:00

More here:

www.i-m-pulse.eclipse.co.uk/page_04.htm

Little windows into our Buzz Night!

2010-07-08T08:49:00.000-07:00

Photos were taken by Rory McDermott.

Today is the Day of the Honey Bee!

2010-05-29T03:57:00.000-07:00

""Day of the Honey Bee" was a project that I began May 29, 2009 because I saw a problem with general public awareness regarding honey bee losses across the globe. Honey bees are dying at alarming rates in every country where they are raised." - Clinton Ekdah

Support the “Day of the Honey Bee” by signing the petition set up by Clinton E:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Canada-for-Day-of-the-Honey-Bee

Excerpts from the petition:

You should be made aware that the Honey Bee has been known by mankind since at least 6000 B.C. as evidenced by rock paintings in Spain found in 1924. Honey Bees have been used by mankind as a food source through domestication since at least 5000 B.C. In that ancient time they were regarded as tears of the Sun God Ra by the Ancient Egyptians and honey was believed to ward against evil spirits. Honey and bee's wax have also been used throughout the Stone Age in medicines and food through to the present day.

Today unfortunately, in many ways, Mankind is still in the Stone Age with regards to understanding these creatures that predate our own species by millennia…

Honey Bees all over the world are dying for reasons that Mankind can not fully explain. They are succumbing to what has been called Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD. Up to this point this fact has remained largely unknown to the general public and if it turns out to be that mankind's influence on the environment is a factor in CCD, we need to know what it is. There are many theories offered as an explanation to their disappearance including pesticides, genetically modified crops, cell phones, pollution, and radiation, among others. CCD is only exacerbating the already dire situation for Honey Bees. However, only by realizing the cause of their disappearance can we affect our actions, behaviour and attitudes towards an insect that, I would argue, beyond all other domesticated animals and plants has been THE MOST influential, and important to the development and advancement of Humanity across the globe.

Honey Bees have taken up the mantle of responsibility for a staggeringly large proportion of the food we eat on a primary, secondary and tertiary level. We eat what they produce, we eat what they pollinate and we eat animals that also live as a result of that pollination. Some sources suggest up to seventy percent of food crops are dependant upon the Honey Bee. To name only a few of the millions of species of plants and animals that have become partly, if not completely dependant upon these pollinators for survival would still take up the rest of your day if not your week. Yet, I will say that WE are on the very top of that list...

I invite all citizens of Canada and the World to join, what began in Saskatchewan Canada, a cause that will change the world. More people need to be made aware of this situation which affects us all to effect change before it is too late. With great respect I call upon each citizen to declare May 29, 2010 as the first annual Day of the Honey Bee. It will be this step, the first in many, which may prove to be our salvation. Thank you.

Clinton Shane Ekdahl (cccssseee@hotmail.co.uk)

Honey Bees feed the Earth. How can we return the favor?

29th May - the day of the Honey Bee!

2010-05-28T05:54:00.000-07:00

We are turning our Alverne milonga in Penzance into a Buzz Night! - to celebrate, as well as raise awareness of the importance of one of nature’s smallest dancer, the honey bee whose existence is now under threat. There will be mead and honey filled goodies and lots of gold and black dressed dancers - buzzing around in a tango hive style!

Print by Ken Orvidas

If you are in Cornwall, already dancing tango or interested to try it here is the schedule for the workshops and the evening dance:

Lessons with Biljana

Intermediate lesson 3.00pm – Topic ‘Honeyed embrace’

Inter/adv lesson 4.30pm – Topic ‘Organic giros’

Beginners lesson 6.45pm – Topic ‘How to survive a milonga’

Buzz Night! milonga 7.30pm – 10.45pm

Costs:

Lessons £10 each

Beginner lesson + milonga £7

Milonga only £5

Guy and Biljana will be the DJ’s for the Milonga, playing tunes you can fly to!

The venue is located in the town, hence there are plenty of places to eat and find parking.
Please remember you can’t park right outside the hall as its reserved parking and you could get a ticket!

How to find us:

Alverne hall, top floor of St John’s Hall, Penzance TR18 2QR.

A Google map link: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=TR18+2QR&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=17.885114,44.384766&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Penzance,+Cornwall+TR18+2QR,+United+Kingdom&z=16

For more info: contact@i-m-pulse.com

Stunning photographs!

2010-05-12T08:14:00.000-07:00

http://blog.atmospheres.be/

From the same photographer - beauty of what humans call a natural disaster!

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html

Pictures from the Transition 9

2010-03-02T07:10:00.000-08:00

We've uploaded photos showing some of the work we've been doing at the Transition 9. Here is a few, the rest are on our art events and gallery page. Any enquiries or comments gladly received...

Photos bellow are copyright of Steve Tanner

The great Borges!

2010-02-22T11:18:00.000-08:00

TWO ENGLISH POEMS

The useless dawn finds me in a deserted streetcorner; I have
outlived the night.
Nights are proud waves: darkblue topheavy waves laden with all
hues of deep spoil, laden with things unlikely and desirable.
Nights have a habit of mysterious gifts and refusals, of things
half given away, half, withheld, of joys with a dark
hemisphere. Nights act that way, I tell you.
The surge, that night, left me the customary shreds and odd
ends: some hated friends to chat with, music for dreams,
and the smoking of bitter ashes. The things my hungry
heart has no use for.
The big wave brought you.
Words, any words, your laughter; and you so lazily and incessantly
beautiful. We talked and you have forgotten the words.
The shattering dawn finds me in a deserted street of my city.
Your profile turned away, the sounds that go to make your name,
the lilt of your laughter: these are illustrious toys
you have left me.
I turn them over in the dawn, I lose them, I find them; I tell
them to the few stray dogs and to the few stray stars
of the dawn.
Your dark rich life…
I must get at you, somehow: I put away those illustrious toys
you have left me, I want your hidden look, your real smile
—that lonely, mocking smile your cool mirror knows.

What can I hold you with?
I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the moon of ragged
suburbs.
I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked long and long
at the lonely moon.
I offer you my ancestors, my dead men, the ghosts that living men
have honoured in marble: my father’s father killed in the
frontier of Buenos Aires, two bullets through his lungs,
bearded and dead, wrapped by his soldiers in the hide
of a cow; my mother’s grandfather –just twenty four-
heading a charged of three hundred men in Peru, now
ghosts on vanished horses.
I offer you whatever insight my books may hold, whatever man-
liness or humour my life.
I offer you the loyalty of a man who has never been loyal.
I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved, somehow –the
central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with
dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.
I offer you the memory of yellow rose seen at sunset, years
before you were born.
I offer you explanations of yourself,
theories about yourself, authentic and surprising news of yourself.
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my
heart; I am trying to bribe you with
uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

1934

— Jorge Luis Borges, from the book 'El otro, el mismo'

2010-01-21T05:52:00.000-08:00

Yet again - its 'Transition' time!

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

2010-01-08T07:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.ted.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines)...

Do you sometimes wish...

2009-08-05T09:33:00.000-07:00

Apologies if this offends anyone - just had to share the funny side of it! Wait for the disclaimer towards the end though...

Anna Halprin: Audio Essay

2009-05-29T06:50:00.000-07:00

Medicine for the Earth - workshop

2009-05-26T07:36:00.000-07:00

World Dance Day

2009-04-29T08:27:00.000-07:00

Official message for the World Dance Day 29 April 2009

The future of dance lies where there are persons who do not dance. These belong to two categories: those who simply did not learn, and those who think that they are not able to dance. They represent the greatest challenge for the dance teacher's profession.

In line with UNESCO's struggle against prejudice and discrimination, we are trying to expand the boundaries of dance and to change the current perception of what a dancer is. Dance performances are not necessarily exhibitions of extreme physicality, accurate precision, or bursting emotion - they can be celebrations of interaction between performers. We can enrich dance concerts with dancers, singers, actors, narrators, mimes, acrobats etc., of all ages and all degrees of ability.

Bringing the 'excluded' into dance is a moral duty, but also opens a great door in times of economic crisis and unemployment. In every country there are millions of persons with physical or mental disabilities. We believe they are ready to dance. They will create jobs to thousands of dance teachers. They can be assisted by the Ministry of Health, whose budget is many times bigger than that of the Ministry of Culture. Integrating marginalized persons into the practice of dance is as important as integrating them into the workforce.

CID holds to the philosophy that everyone can dance.
Dance Day 2009 is dedicated to inclusive dance. Let us include all members of society into our classes and our performances.

Prof. Alkis Raftis
President of the International Dance Council CID
UNESCO, Paris

Also a message from - Akram Khan, UK

This very special day is dedicated to the one language that everybody in this world can speak - the inherent language of our bodies and our souls, of our ancestors and of our children.

This day is dedicated to every god, guru and grandparent that ever taught and inspired us, to every song and impulse and moment that's ever moved us to move. It is dedicated to the little child that wishes it could move like its star, and to the mother who says, "You already can."

This day is dedicated to everybody of every creed, colour and culture that carries the traditions of its past into stories of the present and dreams of the future.

This day is dedicated to Dance, to its myriad dialects and its immense power to express, transform, unite and delight.

White Box Black Box

2009-04-11T05:50:00.000-07:00

If you are from or in the area (Cornwall, UK)

22nd April - 4th May

We are at The Exchange Gallery, Penzance

with the WHITE BOX BLACK BOX

an interactive installation by Biljana Lipic

Would be great to see you there!

See our Art Events & Gallery page for more information.

March 09

2009-03-24T08:05:00.000-07:00

On Saturday 28 March 2009 at 8.30pm, during our introductory Shamanic Tango workshop, we will make our contribution to the WWF's global project Earth Hour by switching our lights off for at least an hour. At the same time we shall enjoy the often forgotten sensuality of being in darkness, de-lighted by the stars, the moon over the sea and the candlelight!

Join us or do it your way... in any case do sign up for the WWF’s Earth Hour!

January / February 2009

2009-03-24T07:59:00.000-07:00

Like our friend Ray Shaw would say: Whoosh!!!

Wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

1st song: Contact - Violence
2nd: Diz Organ & Sackcloth Fashion - Under Man
by 'Seven Sunny Days'
copyright: Matchstick Productions

December 08

2009-03-24T07:56:00.000-07:00

Wishing everyone a non-consumptive but cozy winter!

Since September we have been living off the resources our planet hasn't yet generated! Read here about the Earth Overshoot Day...

Our big wish for the New Year then, is that we all learn to live simpler but happier lives! Hummmmmm....

And may the bees, which seem to have decided to vanish without a trace in such huge numbers, come back to share the same air with us!

September 08

2009-03-24T07:31:00.000-07:00

Internationalize the Amazonia?

Brazil’s Amazon basin, some 360 million hectares cleaved by the world’s largest river, the Amazon, whose 80,000 kilometers in length is equal to the distance between New York and Berlin, holds the planet’s greatest biodiversity reserve. This unique, complex, exceptional ecosystem is a colossal Patrimony of Humanity. Should it be internationalized?

Below is an insightful response from the Brazilian Minister of Education, Cristovão (Chico) Buarque, better known as a poet, composer and musician. In a visit to an US university, Chico Buarque was asked by a young US ecologist about the possibility of ‘internationalising’ the Amazonia. His response highlights the complexity of the issue, the powers in play, the threatened sovereignty of nations and the double standards applied when deciding on these issues. It also reveals a humanist approach, honesty and wisdom of a government minister such as Chico Buarque.

“From a humanist perspective...”

“As a Brazilian I would always argue against internationalizing the Amazon Rain Forest. Even though our government has not given this patrimony the care that it deserves, it is still ours. As a humanist who fears the risks posed by the environmental degradation the Amazon is suffering, I could imagine its internationalization, just as I could imagine the internationalization of everything else of importance to humanity.

If, from a humanist perspective, the Amazon must be internationalized, we should also internationalize the world’s petroleum reserves. Oil is as important for the well being of humanity as the Amazon is for our future. The owners of the reserves, however, feel that they have the right to increase or decrease the amount of oil production, as well as increase or lower the price per barrel. The wealthy of the world feel they have the right to burn up this immense patrimony of humanity.

In much the same way, the wealthy countries’ financial capital should be internationalized. Since the Amazon Rain Forest is a reserve for all human beings, no owner or country must be allowed to burn it up. The burning of the Amazon is as serious a problem as the unemployment caused by the arbitrary decisions made by global speculators. We cannot permit the use of financial reserves to burn entire countries in the frenzy of speculation.

“Let’s internationalize all the world’s children as patrimony of humanity”

Before we internationalize the Amazon, I would like to see the internationalization of all the world’s great museums. The Louvre should not belong merely to France. The world’s museums are guardians of the most beautiful pieces of art produced by the human genius. We cannot let this cultural patrimony, like the natural patrimony of the Amazon, be manipulated and destroyed by the whims of an owner or a country. A short time ago, a Japanese millionaire decided to be buried with a painting by a great artist. That painting should have been internationalized before this could happen.

The United Nations is holding the Millennium Summit parallel to this meeting, but some Presidents ohad difficulties attending due to U.S. border-crossing constraints. Because of this, I think that New York, as the headquarters of the United Nations, should be internationalized. At least Manhattan should belong to all humanity, as should Paris, Venice, Rome, London, Río de Janeiro, Brasilia, Recife... Each city, with its unique beauty and its history, should belong to the entire world, to all of humanity.

If the United States wants to internationalize the Amazon Rain Forest to minimize the risk of leaving it in the hands of Brazilians, we should internationalize its nuclear arsenals, if only because the country has already demonstrated it is capable of using these arms, causing destruction thousands of times greater than the deplorable burnings done in the forests of Brazil.

In their debates, the US presidential candidates have defended the idea of internationalizing the world’s forest reserves in exchange for debt relief. We should begin by using this debt to guarantee that each child in the world has the opportunity to go to school. We should internationalize the children, treating them, all of them, no matter their country of birth, as patrimony that deserves to be cared for by the entire world. Even more than the Amazon deserves to be cared for. When the world’s leaders begin to treat the poor children of the world as a patrimony of humanity, they will not let them work when they should be studying, die when they should be living.

As a humanist, I agree to defend the internationalization of the world. But, as long as the world treats me as a Brazilian, I will fight for the Amazonia to remain ours. Ours alone.”

April / May 08

2009-03-24T05:40:00.000-07:00

We seem to be hopping in the increments of two - two months, two years...

At the end of one cycle, beginning a new one, we have now been offered some most wonderful venues and locations for our workshops! Excitedly, we are arranging the last details before we are able to speak of this further.

Meanwhile, we are joining the web sharing of this incredibly well presented story. Have a look at:

www.storyofstuff.com

February / March 2008

2009-03-24T05:31:00.000-07:00

Challenging months for some of us! Question then naturally poses - did we enjoy everything that was there to be enjoyed?

January 2008

2009-03-24T05:02:00.000-07:00

We wish everyone a golden year ahead!

Our inspiring news are:

Mia and Polly have stepped on board. You will find them present in different ways throughout the website.

In February we will be involved in a live art social event open to all - so, come along! More info on the Art Events and Gallery page...

Also, soon to come, more of our Workshop Encounters throughout 2008. Please visit us again to read further details...

Or let us know if you wish to join our e-mailing list to be regularly updated.