Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.
William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.
William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.
Carnival of the Animals
Wendy Whelan, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and Francesca Harper
October 27, 202
Stanford Live
Bing Concert Hall
See Alonzo King’s “Concerto for Two Violins” in LINES Ballet’s 2024 Spring Season—April 5–14 at the Blue Shield of California Theater. Tickets: cityboxoffice.com/LINES.
LINES Ballet’s Spring Season also features a reimagining of “The Collective Agreement”—an acclaimed collaboration with jazz composer Jason Moran and light installation artist Jim Campbell—and the world premiere of “SPRING”—set to traditional African American spirituals.
It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don’t remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection.
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
West Coast March for Gaza
Sunday, January 14
San Francisco Civic Center Plaza
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As an intermedia, prototypical dance and performance troupe, The Chocolate Heads (founded by Aleta Hayes in 2009) cultivates student artists and interdisciplinary thinkers from across the Stanford campus. Garedning After Dark brings contemporary dance, live music, fashion presentation, and visual installation together in celebration of beauty in all of its forms; metamorphosis in all of the ways one can imagine; and a rich collaboration to awaken the muses.
Butoh belongs both to life and death. It is a realization of the distance between a human being and the unknown. It also represents man’s struggle to overcome the distance between himself and the material world. Butoh dancers bodies are like a cup filled to overflowing, one which cannot take one more drop of liquid- the body enters into a perfect state of balance.
Sankai Juku Master Class at Stanford University
presented by Aleta Hayes and Stanford Arts.
Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
As artists, which we all are, our obsession is to crumble the veils of delusion, to make the invisible apparent, and to see behind all appearance. If I’ve come to a realization where I’ve left the sense of ‘me‘, and expanded to the sense of ‘we’, finally stepping into the idea of ‘oneness’, how can I exploit a mountain? How can I exploit a people? Because I realize that people and that mountain, is me. That ocean that is being polluted is me.
Alonzo King
Celebration of Alonzo King & Zakir Hussain. Hussain’s mastery of classical Indian percussion brought him a Grammy award and worldwide renown. His collaborations with Alonzo King renew classical forms, holding respect for the old and ushering in the new with a keen eye for innovation.
Everything is changed for you. But it is still the same, too. The loneliness you feel has come to you because you are no longer a child. But the world has always been full of that loneliness.
The Human Comedy
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The main thing is to be moved,
to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.
Be a man before being an artist!
Auguste Rodin
Rodin’s Gates of Hell
Stanford University
Deep River, a collaboration with composer Jason Moran and vocalist Lisa Fischer. Bending the lines between classical and contemporary ballet, Alonzo King draws on the strengths of his extraordinary dancers, altering the way we look at ballet today.
I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.
Jerry Saltz
Aleta Hayes’ Chocolate Heads performing a site specific dance, Fashion Fable, at the Cantor Museum, Stanford University.