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In concluding 10 years

In concluding 10 years

I leave you with two quotes as we fold the 2010 season with Co.ERASGA, 10 solid years of dance making and performing has been an impeccable journey that keeps me going!

  • “Culture, the arts, our expressive heritage, are reasons for living, catalysts of our imaginations and prompters of our dreams. If we hope to make a full life, and to live that life in decency, freshness or curiosity and freedom of spirit, we must always remain open to the offerings of the defiant imagination.”

Max Wyman in his book
“The Defiant Imagination” which I am currently reading.

  • “The body is just the objective experience of our consciousness-it's a process, it's not a structure.”

Deepak Chopra
A recent article on him, “Longevity Prescription”

It is awe-inspiring, writing and sharing this with you; over 10 years ago, when I first created my first full-length work SOLA with Operatic singer Maria Piazza, a meditation on cycle-circle, the essence of life and death, when I founded Co.ERASGA then, I said to give it 5 years, then 7 and now we are concluding 10 years, well, let’s see what happens next.

The last two months concluding our season have been full of activities that kept Co.ERASGA on the go with production, fundraising, grant writing and celebrations.

Just a week and half a go, I completed two shows of PARADIS in France, the last of our touring performance season for the year with the 19th and 20th showings of this piece at the town of Coucy Chateau and at Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris. Returning to PARADIS again with French musician Emmanuel Mailly has given me another boost to continue performing the piece with a new goal to reach, 50 shows!

The eventful productions of Shadow Machine in late October saw it being up for 8 nights of performance in partnership with W2 media arts society plus a show for the downtown eastside “heart of the city” and an excerpt shown to 400 elementary kids at Sir Wilfred Grenfell Elementary School.  An evening was also dedicated to our annual fundraising event and I am thankful to all who supported; artists, members, friends and family.

Collaborative efforts and partnerships have been at the core artistic pursuits of Shadow Machine one that signifies an important element to Co.ERASGA’s mandate and continued working pathways in the years to come.

I accepted an award from the city of Vancouver, “the 2010 mayor’s arts award”, last November 24th for my artistic contribution to the performing arts/dance in the city.
It meant a lot coming from the city, although I really feel I have a lot of homes, but Vancouver has been the central place of my development and practice for this intense creativity, as well to the many special individuals that have been part of me with dance in Vancouver over the years.

I am grateful for the recognition and remind myself again that I am only a conduit to follow a calling to provide art to humanity.

I shared the award and chose a South East Asian Classical-Fusion Indian dancer emerging artist Sujit Vaidya., whose cultural background, his freshness, poise, focus and performance ability, with some perspective from his teacher Jai Govinda, earned my choice for him. This choice is also my voice for advocacy for more recognition and celebration of the rich and growing cultural diversity and artists of colour in this country.

It is Saturday morning December 18 as I complete this blog in Laon, France. On the grounds are 10 inches of fresh snow, white and glittering.  Wishing everyone, peace and good tiding for the holiday seasons and an inspiring prosperous new year.