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And bravo on so many levels - I saw that they broadcast it in Times Square and outside the Opera House. Seeing this made me think you had a hand in helping this happen as your way of resolving that conflict of being with the 1% and the solidarity with the 99% and what comes of Opening the Space for possibility. so many levels of thank you, this was truly a Universal connecting moment. Skye<br><div><div>On Nov 21, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Martin Boroson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hello all … <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have been off this list for a couple years as I needed to focus on some other priorities … but then I began to miss the wonderful people and ideas that get exchanged here. So I started reading again, and was pleased to see this chat about Satyagraha, as I had the pleasure of seeing the HD video version last night. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Phelim …. 100 bows to you for bringing this to us. I found the production to be very powerful and surprisingly – for something that was not emotional in a conventional sort of way – it moved me to tears. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I particularly admired your courage in directing so much stillness in the actors. I’m guessing that this required great restraint and trust on your part, and might not have been too easy for the actors, either. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> But the feeling of deep conviction and courage in non-action in the production supported the music and the message so beautifully.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Is there any chance of an audio recording of this company? The voices were just gorgeous.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Again … Phelim … thank you and congratulations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Marty<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.onemomentmeditation.com">www.onemomentmeditation.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:icataiw@ms69.hinet.net">icataiw@ms69.hinet.net</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 20, 2011 11:59 PM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Satyagraha, Opera and Wall Street.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Phelim,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Greatly appreciate your reflections on the NOW and Satyagraha. I shared it with friends in the US and got the following information (sadly too late to tune in).<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">The Metropolitan Opera is doing a series of simulcast opportunities for us out here in the "wilderness."<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Satyagraha was simulcast yesterday and I couldn't go. It is having an encore in local theaters across the country on Dec. 7. According to the internet it will be at the Brassfield Cinema 10 and Greensboro Grande Stadium 16 in Greensboro.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Anyone not in NYC...or near...look up Metropolitan Opera live in HD on Google. Faust is 12/10/11.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">There are 11 opportunities during 2012. I've been to several.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Went to Seigfried a couple of weeks ago. It is better than being in New York. The camera gets up close and personal with the singers. Plus they go back stage and talk with folks.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal">Congratulations to all of you! And may there be more...........<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Gail<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Raffi, Harrison, Michael, Suzanne, Christine, Peggy, Karen, and all, how great to hear from you around the world.<br><br>It is an amazing time to be here in NYC. As you may remember three years ago we came here and mounted our Philip Glass opera "Satyagraha" which some of you saw. At that time we had a great ad campaign which was almost cheeky in it's proposition:<br><br>"could an opera make us stand up for the truth?"<br><br>(Links here to the publicity and poster:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/features/detail.aspx?id=3624">http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/features/detail.aspx?id=3624</a><br><br><a href="http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/features/detail.aspx?id=3674">http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/features/detail.aspx?id=3674</a> )<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">"Satyagraha": At that time in NYC no one knew what the word even meant! How times have changed.<br><br>Glass's piece is a thirty year old opera about Gandhi's Satyagraha campaign which first emerged and was enacted in South Africa. The Satyagraha protests involved the burning of record cards and the Newcastle march changed the rights of Indians in South Africa forever and was the beginning of the movement which brought India out from beneath the oppression of the British Empire.<br><br>At the time of first doing the Opera I was so drawn to it because of the personal connections to working with open space and it's power to help "peace break out". I was excited by how I saw that Gandhi's idea of Satyagraha meant how leadership, activism and protest starts with work on the self. The intangible "inner work cooking" that if we are lucky can happen whilst opening space for transformation and self organisation. All these are open space practices. All these are Satyagraha practices. A discipline of forged vulnerability or "soul-force", "truth-force", "love-force." I felt it was important to do the piece as it re-imagined and stated the true nature of what had become mistranslated and interpreted incorrectly as "passive resistance" an unhelpful term to truly explain Gandhi's concept.<br><br>Now just three years later we are remounting the production whilst an open space/Satyagraha movement breaks out around us and worldwide.<br><br>The irony that our production will be playing to the Metropolitan Opera house audiences whilst Occupy Wall Street is so near cannot be avoided! I am fascinated to see how the audience will respond to the piece this time around, especially as many of them no doubt could well be considered to be part of the "1%".<br><br>I have also found myself feeling how strangely complicated the politics of this piece playing in the opera house is for myself and here of course the fifth principle seems all the more important and helpful to me. I ask myself what am I doing not down on Wall street but inside an opera housed doing a piece about activism and protest portrayed by singers with amazing voices. Is this just decadent?<br><br>"Wherever it happens is the right place."<br><br>I have found myself in the past questioning during extreme times what is the point of doing theatre? This thing that can seem so frivolous whilst world events seem so overwhelming. However it is in theatre that I first experienced the transformative nature of space, atmosphere, silence and emergence. True theatre holds space for the imagination, dreams and the future when events, despair or beliefs could close that space down. This is the frontier I personally have known since childhood where a true conversation with the unknown and chaos can be had (as David Whyte says) and the imagination can be the first step towards opening space beyond my own prejudice and limiting beliefs into possibility.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><br>So I have realised how important this piece is to perform right NOW because it manages to communicate what is behind or beneath a Satyagraha protest: this is the power of Spirit. How important it is to speak from my own place of truth. To be present in this a-causal connection with world wide events and to let theatre do what only theatre can do: to communicate the mysterious nature of the spirit that exists out there as the space opens. To speak tangibly of the spirit that so easily can be dismissed or made invisible in media coverage or polarised reactions. To use art to do what its purpose is: to say the unsayable, speak the ineffable.<br>As Gandhi sings in the opera (in words from the Bhagavad Gita)<br><br>"These are the Athletes of the Spirit"<br><br>Love<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Phelim<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><div><p class="MsoNormal">Gail West<br>ICA<br>3F, No. 12, Lane 5, Tien Mou West Road<br>Taipei, Taiwan 111<br>8862) 2871-3150<br>SKYPE gwestica<br><a href="http://www.icatw.com">www.icatw.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">OSList mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; 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