Chocolate Heads: Bird’s Eye View at the McMurtry Art Building (Stanford University) for the ACSA 2019 Fall Conference: Less Talk, More Action
Anybody will be able to observe how much more easily a painting,
and above all sculpture or architecture can be grasped in photographs than in reality.
Walter Benjamin
I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment,
and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes,
it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united.
Yes, yes, yes, yes!
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Chocolate Heads
Bird’s Eye View
McMurtry Art Building
Stanford University
Snake River, 2001: Cantor Art Museum, Stanford University.
“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate
from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature,
we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.”
Andy Goldsworthy
Cascade Niagara is located the commune of Sainte-Suzanne on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. The falls height is approximately 75ft.
Human nature is like water.
It takes the shape of its container.
Wallace Stevens
I did not just fall in love.
I made a parachute jump.
Zora Neale Hurston
Architecture Dance: Birds’ Eye at McMurtry Art Building, Stanford. LESS TALK | MORE ACTION: Conscious Shifts in Architectural Education Conference
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Aleta Hayes‘ Birds’ Eye Dance
McMurtry Art Building
LESS TALK | MORE ACTION: Conscious Shifts in Architectural Education
2019 Fall Conference
Saturday, September 14th, 2019
Stanford University
Host School: Stanford Architecture & Yale School of Architecture
“To Honor Surfing” Statue by Thomas Marsh Lighthouse Point, Santa Cruz.
Telephone Archaeology: Seaside Pay Phone
The trouble with superheroes
is what to do between phone booths.
Ken Kesey
Telephone Archaeology: Santa Cruz Payphone
Don’t use the phone.
People are never ready to answer it.
Use poetry.
Jack Kerouac
Cabaret Stanford Theater And Performance Studies, Roble Gym Theater
Leave your troubles outside!
So life is disappointing?
Forget it! In here, life is beautiful!
The girls are beautiful!
Even the orchestra is beautiful!
The orchestra plays.
Beautiful!
Chocolate Heads: The Chocolate Ball for Polymaths in Green Library, Stanford University.
He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da Vinci
Green Library, Stanford University.
A performance as part of the “Leonardo’s Library” Exhibit Reception,
a celebration of Leonardo Da Vinci’s 500th Birthday.
Polaroid Dance Photographs of LINES Ballet in Reunion Island.
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal.
You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket.
You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
Patti Smith
Alonzo King LINES Ballet
Reunion Island
Polaroid Dance Photographs
Motion of site specific dance at Trois Bassins Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean with LINES Ballet. Captured up in the hills of the island on a sugar cane farm.
Wanderlust on Mafate Reunion Island with Alonzo King LINES Ballet Company. A Site Specific Dance in Mafate National Park on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.
Look Homeward, Angel
Réunion Island Volcano with Alonzo King LINES Ballet.
I turned my eyes upon the volcano again. The “cellar” was tolerably well lighted up. For a mile and a half in front of us and half a mile on either side, the floor of the abyss was magnificently illuminated; beyond these limits the mists hung down their gauzy curtains and cast a deceptive gloom over all that made the twinkling fires in the remote corners of the crater seem countless leagues re moved – made them seem like the camp-fires of a great army far away. Here was room for the imagination to work! You could imagine those lights the width of a continent away – and that hidden under the intervening darkness were hills, and winding rivers, and weary wastes of plain and desert – and even then the tremendous vista stretched on, and on, and on! – to the fires and far beyond! You could not compass it – it was the idea, of eternity made tangible – and the longest end of it made visible to the naked eye!
Mark Twain, The Sacramento Daily Union, November 16, 1866
The world premier of Alonzo King LINES Ballet Pole Star, with Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Motion of site specific dance at Cascade Niagra Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean with LINES Ballet. Captured at one of the many waterfalls on the island.
The deep art…
That’s the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money…
Like a dope addict would his dope…
Like a lover with their love.
Alonzo King
Behind the scenes in the studio rehearsal footage of LINES Ballet’s upcoming collaboration with Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ for their world premier of Pole Star.