A wholistic modern art and the celebration of a living artist!
By Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta
Today is May 11st. Google is celebrating the 117th birthday of Martha Graham. Her work has inspired the world of modern dancing including the life of Ryan Woodward. At the Google's title today, Prof. Woodward's animation has made the dance of late Graham to be alive.
I decide to write my short note because I know the time will pass by. I would like this work of art is with me too. So many positive energy around us that can help us to focus for what we believe to be good for not only our mind, but also for our soul. I have seen dancing is one of them that inspire me to move on. What do I admire of Martha is that she began dancing when she already passed her 50 years old. I have used dancing for a peace movement learning from my fieldwork and have organized a community of dancing for about 10 years to dance every week at our Pendopo. Then we performed every three months around different communities in our city. However, only last year I began seriously taking a classic Javanese dance. I have performed several occasion including at the party of ICRS Yogya as my gift for my beloved husband.
kompas.realviewusa.com/default.aspx?iid=35028&startpage
(about the performance of children and women whom danced and sang for a peace international movement that was held at Institute of France Culture in Yogyakarta last year).
Last Sunday so many women came to the gathering of Indonesian Women Coation at Sasono Hinggil Dwi Abad at Alun Alun Selatan. We shared, discussed, sang and danced. A special report will be posted under "Journal of Indonesian Women Coalitiaon Wil. DI.Y". Again I found all women had their own creativity to express peace in using their body movement, voices and silence in their performance to the audiences. It was a gathering of 500 women to reflect on "A harmonious living as a base of capital for the achievement of women's transformative leaderships". There we sang for the closing the song of Franky Sahilatua, "Kemesraan".
Martha Graham said as I found at Wikipedia:
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Graham
Thanks Prof. Ryan Woodward and Google for reminding me about the wonderful work Martha Graham had done for this world.
I found a note about Ryan Woodward written by Ravi Kambie Govind from Spain who said that Mr. Woodward has inspired so many animators to make their work to be enlivened. He who has gotten the inspiration from the living movement of Martha Graham to share his passion now to this cyber community to imagine the continuity of the history of moving art in this world. His life is also a type of animation according to Ravi.
http://rvganimation.blogspot.com/2011/05/animated-people-ryan-woodward.html
Throughout my reading on this note written by Ravi, I learned that Ryan has made his own anthropological visual art through his living animation work. His personal stories and others are shared together in the animated films. He reminds me of my own memory to teach computer and society to the engineering students.
Then I read directly to Prof. Ryan's blog about his trip with his students to the anthropological field of Margareth Mead in Samoa from there he created his amazing animation film about Samoa. His work completes the imagination of little children and adults after they see the exibition of Margareth Mead at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City where I was so impressed to learn of Mead's life along with the people of Samoa.
http://ryanwoodward.blogspot.com/
I am happy to have my new understanding on these persons whose creativity make their work inspiring so many people. These types of positive energy that live around us can utilize our vitality and to envisage our service to our family, our communities and this world...
By Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta
Today is May 11st. Google is celebrating the 117th birthday of Martha Graham. Her work has inspired the world of modern dancing including the life of Ryan Woodward. At the Google's title today, Prof. Woodward's animation has made the dance of late Graham to be alive.
I decide to write my short note because I know the time will pass by. I would like this work of art is with me too. So many positive energy around us that can help us to focus for what we believe to be good for not only our mind, but also for our soul. I have seen dancing is one of them that inspire me to move on. What do I admire of Martha is that she began dancing when she already passed her 50 years old. I have used dancing for a peace movement learning from my fieldwork and have organized a community of dancing for about 10 years to dance every week at our Pendopo. Then we performed every three months around different communities in our city. However, only last year I began seriously taking a classic Javanese dance. I have performed several occasion including at the party of ICRS Yogya as my gift for my beloved husband.
kompas.realviewusa.com/default.aspx?iid=35028&startpage
(about the performance of children and women whom danced and sang for a peace international movement that was held at Institute of France Culture in Yogyakarta last year).
Last Sunday so many women came to the gathering of Indonesian Women Coation at Sasono Hinggil Dwi Abad at Alun Alun Selatan. We shared, discussed, sang and danced. A special report will be posted under "Journal of Indonesian Women Coalitiaon Wil. DI.Y". Again I found all women had their own creativity to express peace in using their body movement, voices and silence in their performance to the audiences. It was a gathering of 500 women to reflect on "A harmonious living as a base of capital for the achievement of women's transformative leaderships". There we sang for the closing the song of Franky Sahilatua, "Kemesraan".
Martha Graham said as I found at Wikipedia:
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Graham
Thanks Prof. Ryan Woodward and Google for reminding me about the wonderful work Martha Graham had done for this world.
I found a note about Ryan Woodward written by Ravi Kambie Govind from Spain who said that Mr. Woodward has inspired so many animators to make their work to be enlivened. He who has gotten the inspiration from the living movement of Martha Graham to share his passion now to this cyber community to imagine the continuity of the history of moving art in this world. His life is also a type of animation according to Ravi.
http://rvganimation.blogspot.com/2011/05/animated-people-ryan-woodward.html
Throughout my reading on this note written by Ravi, I learned that Ryan has made his own anthropological visual art through his living animation work. His personal stories and others are shared together in the animated films. He reminds me of my own memory to teach computer and society to the engineering students.
Then I read directly to Prof. Ryan's blog about his trip with his students to the anthropological field of Margareth Mead in Samoa from there he created his amazing animation film about Samoa. His work completes the imagination of little children and adults after they see the exibition of Margareth Mead at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City where I was so impressed to learn of Mead's life along with the people of Samoa.
http://ryanwoodward.blogspot.com/
I am happy to have my new understanding on these persons whose creativity make their work inspiring so many people. These types of positive energy that live around us can utilize our vitality and to envisage our service to our family, our communities and this world...
