Only three days left and we are heading to Tahiti. The way this project is evolving is a miracle. I just stand and watch. Well, I do work, but i feel like a greater power is in motion here...
Anyways, i would like to write a few words about the "Rainbow Mountain" dance that is part of the project.
In Tahitian dancing, the hand movements are very important. Usually the hands tell the story while the continuous movement of the hips follow the rhythm. If you look at the dance and the lyrics carefully, you can see they unfold together.
Since we have finished our campaign and bought our tickets to Tahiti (YES!!!!), we have been very busy preparing our trip and learning more about Tahiti. The last two weeks we spent in a huge traditional Japanese style house with 20 other people, Tahitians, Japanese, Hawaiians, in the forest (literally, because the name of the village we were staying is Yamanaka, which means 'in the mountains'). We were sharing life, music, dance, food and good times with Te Maire Raurii, a traditional band from Tahiti and the dancers of Tiare Heipua Japan. This "bootcamp" was organized by Heikapua, the leader of Tiare Heipua. She created a show, Myth of Japan, the old Japanese cosmology told in Tahitian dance and drumming and had three shows with live drummers this past weekend.
We were very busy practicing and preparing, performing, and cooking, but in the meantime the drummers have been very kind and took their time to patiently teach us every day. We have learned some Tahitian language too and listened to their stories about the faraway islands. At the end of the trip we were given a beautiful toere drum and a professional drumstick as encouragement for further practice.
Hunor and the Tahitian band even played some random music together, fusing Hungarian doromb (jawharp) with Tahitian toere drums.
"See you next month in Tahiti!" sounded like a dream when we said goodbye. I can't wait to meet these open hearted, always positive, hard-working, lovely people again in their homeland.
We would like to thank our contributors again and again for supporting us in this dream! I will keep you updated on our work and as soon as we come back from Tahiti (8 December) I will start working on editing the final movie and making the orders you have placed: necklaces, quotes, postcards, textiles. Thank you for your patience and if any of you need your item earlier please let me know and I will try to work it out.
Lots of love
Teodora
キャンペーンが終わり、タヒチ行きのチケットを買いました（イエエイ）。それ以来、来月の旅の準備、そして、タヒチについて学ぶことで忙しかったです。二週間、石川県、山中にいました。あそこで、山と美しい森の中で大きな和風の別荘で２０名ぐらいで（タヒチ、日本、ハワイの人）音楽を弾いたり、ダンスを練習したり、料理したり、遊んだりして暮らしました。タヒチのバンド、Te Maire Rauriiと小松のTiare Heipuaのダンサーと一緒でした。このキャンプを主催したのは私のダンスの先生、Tiare Heipua Japanのリーダー、ヘイカプア。今年、Myth of Japan 日本神話というタイトルで、タヒチアンダンスとドラムで日本の古事記の神話を語るショーを制作しました。そのショーは先週末三回出演しました。大成功でした。
We do not have much footage about the event at Rize, but I tried to make the most of the documentation we could gather. Thanks again to those who came to share the evening with us!
Thank you so much for coming to the party! For me it was an amazing night, living a dream with great friends and their friends. Nice weather, great location, and very supportive atmosphere. More than 100 people showed up for the event! Thank you for trying our food, buying our artwork and contributing to our dream: filming in Tahiti. It looks like the dream comes true and WE ARE GOING TO TAHITI.
Thank you for being a part of it!
We do not have many photos of the event, since the cameraman have been busy rolling his trumpet bread machine and drumming :) so please if you have any photos or videos, share them with us!
Also, I think last night it was difficult to see the subtitles on the screen from faraway, so I uploaded the short movie about Hungarian folk songs to youtube. I will include the video in this post too.
I have asked myself many
times why do I need to dance? And every time I come up with a different answer.
It helps me find freedom
in my body, reconnects me with my femininity, gives me the experience of a
loving community with other women and teaches me about God, life and myself in
a gentle and artistic way.
According to a Sufi saying
“God
respects you when you work, but he loves you when you dance.”
Finally, after our first attempt to do the recordings for our film was blown away by a huge typhoon two weeks ago, this Sunday we were able to dance, film and watch a spectacular sunset at Cape Maeda. The dancers were beautiful and hardworking, thanks to all of you, especially to Akane, who did a whole afternoon of dancing six months pregnant. Also thanks to our teacher, the creator of the choreography. She flew in this weekend from Kanazawa to help us during the recording.
Tuesday night we went to Shuri Castle Park with some friends, many lights and two big generators to record the choreography for the film. The moment I saw the big sun shining on the castle walls under the moonlight, I was breathless. It was a magical night. And it would have been possible without Brandon, Buck and Camila. They did a great job in controlling the lights. Thank you so much!
