To: Mr. Publius Ovidius Naso.
From: A descendant of the Getae, Sauromatae, Greeks, Romans and many others.
Sir Ovid (for this is how people call you in the West. I think the “ius” is too hard for them to pronounce. It could also be that they shortened your name due to that tendency they have to abbreviate [...]
Archive for the ‘On the Arts’ Category
To an ancestor, dearly…
Posted in Green tea infused thoughts, On the Arts, tagged Black Sea, exile, immigration, Marea Neagra, Ovid, roman poetry, Tomis on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No more
Posted in On the Arts, tagged acting, arts training, theatre, theatre schools on October 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
…”art” about cancer, AIDS, lice, sexual abuse, schizophrenia, people who smoke weed, divorce, hokey and vaginas!! I’ve had it with contemporary crap theatre! I grew up with theatre and I still love it but every time I’m looking for a play to go to it’s something like the aforementioned or an “adapted” Shakespeare play meaning that some “trained” [...]
“Where Is the Friend’s House?”
Posted in On the Arts, tagged Abbas Kiarostami, Children, Iran Arts, Movies, Persian on May 22, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I don’t agree with people who say that children have a very happy, easy life, free of troubles and worries. I think that they all completely forgot what their life was like when they were shorter than the leg of the kitchen table. I do remember what I used to think about and, watching other [...]
Banjara
Posted in On the Arts, tagged Add new tag, Banjara, desi, Gatlif, Latcho Drom, Romani on April 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Since Richard got me started on this whole Desi theme, I started to go through some videos I used to watch a while ago whenever I was feeling down.
These two videos still make me wanna to dance on the roof of my neighbour’s house and ride stolen horses until dawn peaks.
Now, these people (Banjaras) are Desi (meaning literaly “of the country” and [...]
Lola Flores
Posted in On the Arts, tagged flamenco, Lola Flores, moth balls, performing arts, Romanian diaspora on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was at a rehearsal tonight with a bunch of Romanians. Nice people. We rehearse in the basement of someone’s house. I wonder – how do Romanians always manage to make their houses smell like moth balls (naftalina)? I have never seen this product for sale here, in Canada. Perhaps they bring it in their [...]
Dramatic Perfection
Posted in On the Arts, tagged Japanese, Noh theatre, Yokihi on April 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Kabuki theatre. Embodied poetry.
See also the second part of Yokihi’s dance, it’s more beautiful but it has the embedding option dissabled.
Liza, this is what I would make my kids watch. Poor kids!:)
“Dhik taam cha tam cha Madanam cha imaam cha maam cha” (“But fie most on Madan, the god of Love, this madness’ minister”)
Posted in On the Arts, tagged desi, indian, menaka takkar, moving to rythm on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing impresses me more during the month of February than a bunch of girls on a black stage with bells on their ankles jumping around, moving their hands rhythmically, accompanied by music so unfamiliar to my eastern European ear that I immediately give up categorizing and analyzing it and I accept it with all my heart and stomach. Not to [...]
Tribal Fusion Style
Posted in On the Arts, tagged belly dancing, Rachel Brice on February 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It’s amazing how much resistance one can meet when breaking the rules in art. Even when the rules were made up a few centuries ago and were broken the same day they were established. Even if art is one of those fragile subjective areas where strict rules don’t bring anything good [...]
