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Rest in Peace Brother Homer Avila
1955 - 2004
Homer Avila died last evening (Sunday April 25 th)
at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. The cancer that cost him his hip and leg
had metastasized and reached his lungs.
He was dancing until Friday, checked himself into the hospital late Saturday night, and was gone by twilight Sunday.
To his colleagues in the Pentacle Help Desk and across North America and Europe, he was courage itself. An irrelevancy like a missing leg could not stop him from dancing. It gave his own choreography an exemplary urgency and authenticity, and it inspired fine work by such collaborators as Vicky Marks, Alonzo King and Dana Casperson.
He never stood still. I think he sensed that if he did, that would be it. He knew Sunday that his breath had run out, and he had time to say some good-byes.
Friends and admirers can pay their respects Thursday afternoon, April
29
at the John Krtil Funeral Home, 1297 First Avenue (69/70 Sts.) between
4:00 and 6:00pm.
-Ivan Sygoda, Pentacle
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here for additional information about Mr.
Avila.
Hi Folks,
I would like to invite you to two upcoming performances:
1. Monday April 5, 2004 @ 6:00 - 7:00pm
The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Washington DC
FREE
FIELD OF SHADOWS
Explores a woman's relationship with her shadow. It asks what would happen
if your shadow reflected your inexpressible psychological states? What
if your shadow had dreams and longings of its own? What if your shadow
broke free and began to move independently?
In FIELD of SHADOWS, Edisa Weeks' movement and shadow are projected onto a screen. The light, dense, elusive, and tangible textures of her shadow are then manipulated through a computer interface developed by Liubo Borissov, endowing the shadow with a life independent of its creator. The music for FIELD of SHADOWS, performed live by John Savage (didjeridoo & flute), Owen Malloy (tuba) and Matt Shulman (trumpet), both captivates and reflects the shadow's emanations, at times reacting and transforming the shadow's movements into sound, and at other times sonically dictating the shadow's movements through spontaneous composition.
Edisa, Luibo, John, Matt and Owen, are Alberto Vilar Fellows at New York
University.
The Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for collaborations with artists
in other disciplines. For more information visit www.nyu.edu/vilar/fellows-2003
2. Thursday Saturday April 22- 24, 2004 @ 8pm
In-Sites
TISCH Dance Department - New York University
111 Second Ave. Fifth Floor Theater (between 6 + 7 Streets)
FREE
7 dances created through Kay Cummings Directing and Choreography class including:
One For One
Choreography: Alyssa Stith + Edisa Weeks
Original Music: Bryan Au Yong
One for One addresses the genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994, where one million Tutsis and Hutu moderates were killed by Hutu extremists. The irony of the situation is that there are little ethnic distinctions between the Hutus and the Tutsi. They speak the same language, they practice the same religion, and prior to the genocide, they had frequently intermarried.
In this piece we are interested in exploring people’s potential for violence and how that potential lies just beneath the surface in many of us. What causes a person to turn against their neighbor? How does a person make the choice to live knowing that thousands of others will die as a result?
In Rwanda the Tutsis were called inyenzi, cockroaches. The choice of metaphor is telling because in order to get rid of a cockroach infestation, you must kill all of them. Leave just a few, and the infestation will return. Since many of us have squished, squashed and splatted cockroaches, this metaphor became our springboard into the piece.
Hope to see you at a performance.
Regards,
Edisa
Time to Support that which Supports You:
A New Tim Reid Movie- "Asunder"
The man that knows something
Knows that he knows nothing at all -E.Badu
FYI...A new film by Tim Reid (Produced Film "Once upon a Time when we were Colored") is coming to selected theaters. The movie is called Asunder and stars Blair Underwood and Michael Beach (Waiting to Exhale & Soul Food).
Help make this work. Please send this to as many people as possible so
this will be a successful film.
This is the first movie in 55 years written, directed, and produced by
blacks, made in a black owned studio, distributed by blacks, AND based
on a novel written by a black author.(Trois was not filmed in a black
studio).
Tim Reid (WKRP in Cincinnati, Venus Flytrap, Simon and Simon, Frank's
Place and Sister, Sister) has been very vocal about the plight of black
films, shows, and actors. His own show "Links" was dropped by
ShowTime.
Well known names have talked about blacks owning and distributing their
own stuff but Tim has actually done it.
If we do not support the project during its 1st week the big box office
debut), it will be much harder for this and other Black films to get
into the theater mainstream. Of the 500+ films released each year, only
about 8 are black films. That's not even 2%!
Support the effort! PASS IT ON!
