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Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 14:39:42 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Ecology/Wayang of the Ten Sacred Thing


In-spiring!
Thank you kathy.
I am tempted to make my first show "about something" important.
When I have the time, or rather, when I make the time.

Speaking of balance, I just heard that the International Day of Slow-ness is 
on June 21st.
I have no more info about it or its background, but I might participate in 
the local activities at Parc Lafontaine.

I was already planning on going to that park (parc Lafontaine, in Montreal), 
to do maskmaking in public, often and as soon as the warm weather started. I 
even adapted a wooden board to attach to my video tripod, making a 
lightweight easel to work my mask on.
It's a beautiful park, lots of interesting people to meet.
A rare combination:  fresh air, sun (with sunblock), shade, great 
encounters, maskmaking, and good publicity.




Mathieu René Créaturiste
Marionnettes, Masques, Etcetera...
Puppets, Masks, Etcetera...
www.creaturiste.com
creaturiste-AT-magma.ca
(514) 274-8027
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Foley" <kfoley-AT-ucsc.edu>
To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 1:24 PM
Subject: [Puptcrit] Ecology/Wayang of the Ten Sacred Thing


> Anyone interested in reading more on I Made Sidia's Wayang
> Dasanamakerta (AKA wayang skateboard) might look for Asian Theatre
> Journal 22, 1 "Theatre in a Time of Terrorism: Renewing Natural
> Harmony after the Bali Bombing via Wayang Kontemporer"  by I Nyoman
> Sedana which I edited (it is available on the web through JSTOR and
> other academic journal data bases.
>
> The beginning point for the performance was initiated long before the
> Bali bomb by Sidia's dad who is one of the most important puppeteers
> of the older generation.  While at a conference in Europe a number of
> years ago Sidja conceived of a puppet show which would focus on the
> ecological balance of the world as a core issue--a response to the
> overbuilding of the tourist industry then rampant on Bali and some of
> the corruption that allowed the rich to bulldoze tradition and the
> poor in the process.  So Sidja conceived of a puppet genre that would
> deal with the ten sacred things from plants to animals to the human
> and divine that had to harmonize for the ecology of life and spirit
> to balance.  It is not survival of the fittest but the responsibility
> of the steward that Sidja emphasized.
>
> Sidia, his son, recycled this idea when he was invited to do some
> shows in the schools and at Kuta as part of a program to relieve
> post-tramatic stress after the bombing in 2002.  It is interesting
> that instead of focusing on anger and "who did what to whom?" that
> Sidia asked people to look at the big picture.  "What is out of whack
> that this terrorism happens?" was the question he chose to address.
>
> For him ecological degradation, religious turf wars, political finger
> pointing that pit people against each other were all part of a common
> problem--loss of balance between these ten elements that make up the
> cosmos.  He thought puppetry could help people cut through the mess
> and see what was happening because in the little world we can see the
> great world clearly and whole.
>
>  If Sidia  had his way the headline would be "Puppet Shows Save the
> World." That might be an nice act  for all puppeteers to try to
> follow.
>
> -- 
> Kathy Foley
> Professor, Theatre Arts
> Editor, Asian Theatre Journal
> J-15 Theatre Arts
> 1156 High St.
> Santa Cruz, CA 95064
>  tel. (831) 459-4189
> fax (831) 459-3552
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