Spirit Unfolding–The Performing Arts

Saturday October 28: 7:30 p.m
Spirit Unfolding–The Performing Arts
Kresge Theatre | College of Fine Arts | Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave | Pittsburgh, PA | 15213
http://spiritunfoldingnow.googlepages.com/

Huang Xiang: Poet on Fire:
An extraordinary Chinese poet in exile, who transforms himself into his
poems, and touches our core, our universal humanness.

Huang Xiang has been described as "a poet on fire, a human torch who burns as a lamp of freedom and enlightenment." Huang is a refugee in Pittsburgh, invited by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh which provides refuge to notable creative writers under threat in their home countries. His poetry touches chords of one's soul and plays on a wide range of human experience–from the wild beast to the ephemeral sublime, where life and death are one.

Life in Balance: Performs music to amplify energy and deepen relaxation

The instrumental group Life In Balance will play throughout the evening. Using the high-frequency transmission of Quartz Crystal Bowls and enhanced Shakuhachi for pure vibrational energy restoration, Life In Balance creates a sonic environment for deep personal exploration. Ami Sciulli says: "I feel in resonance with the healing energies when activating the Quartz Crystal Bowls. In so doing, I become a conduit, sonically showering the listeners with the potential for expanded consciousness, enhanced synchronicity and sublime joy. (http://www.lifeinbalancemusic.com/)

Mimi Jong: Plays the ancient Chinese Erhu

Mimi Jong, a Pittsburgh resident and acclaimed architect of Chinese descent, heard her father playing the erhu while growing up in Indonesia. Mimi was trapped in a concentration camp in Indonesia after a visit to support the refugees because it became unsafe to return to her family in the city from the countryside. She has tuned into human suffering, and has devoted many of her activities to "nurture cross-cultural understanding through arts." She has a deep understanding of Huang Xiang's poetry and will accompany him and improvise sounds on the two-stringed ancient Chinese instrument, Erhu to augment and resonate with Huang Xiang's poetry.

William Rock: Paintings will be displayed at the Zebra Lounge Gallery during the performance

The paintings of William Rock express the unmanifest realms of existence that are beyond life and death. The regions his sublime images serve to connect irritate the boundaries that western, as well as art culture tends to implement. The artist's transcendent images resonate with life, and yet point to another realm of existence, a state wherein "the grosser mind becomes inactive allowing the subtler mind to become more active" and unfolding.

By Descending: Performed by Allie Greene, Choreographed by Joan Wagman, with video projections by Liana Dragoman and lighting by Drama MFA canidate Daniel Chapman.

Allie Greene will perform a dance choreographed by Joan Wagman. The dance's name "By descending," is inspired by kabbalah. It focuses on the body being in the moment, being in awareness during prayer. It describes a sense of joy that comes out of this awareness and a sense of connection with the fundamentals through losing one's particular identity, a raw energy emerges and a sense of being under the wings of the divine."

Yoga: To demonstrate union and communion of mind and body, yogis from Yoga On Centre will perform yoga poses under the direction of its founder, Sara Azarius,
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For more information please call Dr. Tova Tarr @ 412-363-3777
or visit spiritunfoldingnow.googlepages.com

"There are some artists that have unfolded the deepest level of awareness; an awareness discovered with earnestness and solitude that connects the artist with everyone and everything. Stepping outside of society to go inside, to go so far inside that the illusion of self is understood. The self becomes something that is merely witnessed as it acts out its destiny." ~ William Rock