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rehearsing Nausicaä at Pillar Point

Speculation: rehearsing Nausicaä at Pillar Point with Aleta Hayes, Judy Syrkin-Nikola, Amber Levine, Benjamin Cohn, and Timothy Lee.

Sophocles Nausicaa, Chocolate Heads, Stanford theater and performance studies, Stanford TAPS, Stanford Arts, Pillar Point, Iota, site specific, site responsive, environmental art, Live Art, rehearsing Nausicaä

Sophocles Nausicaa, Chocolate Heads, Stanford theater and performance studies, Stanford TAPS, Stanford Arts, Pillar Point, Iota, site specific, site responsive, environmental art, rehearsing NausicaäLive Art

Sophocles Nausicaa, Chocolate Heads, Stanford theater and performance studies, Stanford TAPS, Stanford Arts, Pillar Point, Iota, site specific, site responsive, environmental, Live Art

So Odysseus moved out . . .
about to mingle with all those lovely girls,
naked now as he was, for the need drove him on,
a terrible sight, all crusted, caked with brine–
they scattered in panic down the jutting beaches.
Only Alcinous’ daughter held fast, for Athena planted
courage within her heart, dissolved the trembling in her limbs,
and she firmly stood her ground and faced Odysseus, torn now–
Should he fling his arms around her knees, the young beauty,
plead for help, or stand back, plead with a winning word,
beg her to lead him to the town and lend him clothing?
Homer, Odyssey, trans. Robert Fagles

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