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Bridge Walkers at Prescott Harvest/Day of the Dead Festival

delisa — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:34:27 +0000

Here’s a few photos from our re-vamped performance under LaGuardia Bridge at Granite Creek Park. We were part of a great day of music, dance, performance and beer tasting.

Local Culture Project

delisa — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:06:43 +0000

This duet with Bob Webb was a part of an evening of performance at Prior Day Farm in Portland, Oregon following a week of workshops with Hiroko Tamano of Harupin-Ha. Great fun to learn from Hiroko and an honor to share an evening of performance with Harupin-Ha at the farm. Many thanks to Mizu Desierto who created the Local Culture Project. It’s always inspiring to see and be a part of what Mizu is concocting. Photos courtesy of Minh Pham.

Into the Garden with Dance and Camera- workshop

delisa — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:33:53 +0000

Breanna Rogers

INTO THE GARDEN WITH DANCE AND CAMERA Workshop with Delisa Myles

August 14th, 10:00-1:00 Prior Day Farm, Portland, Oregon.

Observe, Listen, Absorb, Collect images, Move, Share. A morning of sinking into the sensual qualities of Prior Day Farm. What in the garden attracts your curiosity? Is it the blossoming, ripening, withering, composting? Or the colors, shapes, textures, plants, animals, tools? There will be prompts toward seeing and moving in relation with the place. Photographers who want to dance, dancers who want to make photos are welcome. Bring your digital camera and lap top to share images. Consider your costume.

INTO THE GARDEN

delisa — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:16:49 +0000

INTO THE GARDEN

Prior Day Farm
Portland, OR

Saturday August, 13th

a site-specific dinner + dance performance featuring Japanese Butoh Masters Hiroko and Koichi Tamano of Harupin-Ha + Arizona Dancer and Choreographer, Delisa Myles.

Internationally touring artists of Butoh & Harupin-Ha creators, Koichi & Hiroko Tamano, were dancers in the first company of Tatsumi Hijikata (the founder of Butoh). They have been performing and teaching for over 30 years and are noted for bringing the dance form to the west. Koichi Tamano, who was the principal dancer of Hijikata’s company, was named by him “the bow-legged Nijinsky”. We are honored to host the final U.S. workshop and performance of the duo before they make their pilgrimage back to Japan (after 25 years of living in San Francisco).

Delisa Myles, a choreographer and dance educator from Arizona’s experientially-based and ecologically progressive Prescott College , has had a pervasive influence on some of Portland’s most interesting local talents, including Kathleen Keogh of Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner, Kestrel Gates of HiiH Gallery and Mizu Desierto of Water in the Desert. Delisa’s choreography and collaborations in recent years have investigated feminine archetypes, intergenerational work and environmental performance. She holds an MFA in Performance and Choreography from University of Colorado.

Into The Garden will be held at Prior Day Farm in St. Johns (the site of a future urban art/ecology center)

7PM: Japanese-Inspired Farm Feast (ADVANCED PURCHASE ONLY)

8PM: Performances

Koichi Tamano

Hiroko Tamano

Dream Rakers: The Story of a Tree, a Bird and a Girl

delisa — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:35:47 +0000

Narration from Dream Rakers. Photos by Denise Elfenbein

Do you remember this story, the one I tell myself over and over?

It begins with a sound…

It begins at a time when everything was a part of the same wild shout! When there was no difference between root and hand, wing and leaf.

Do you remember this story? Pieces of it return to me now and again…dismembered, fractured, insecure.

They are beautiful words, strong words, words that could move mountains, but what was once one story has now turned into many voices. What was once whole, shattered, dismembered.

Alone….one part flew off, one part buried herself deep underground and one walked forward trying to remember where she came from. All of them searching for something that could never be named.

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