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- From: joe@dogface.austin.tx.us (Joe Zitt)
- Subject: Shekhinah: The Presence (Performance in Austin)
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:29:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.182941.4144@dogface.austin.tx.us>
- Keywords: performance, dance, Judaism, mystic, theatre
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- The Human Systems Performance Group
- presents
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- Shekhinah: The Presence
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- A Dance Performance Piece
- by Joseph Zitt
-
- November 20-22, 27-29, 1992
- 8:00 PM
- Synergy Studio
- 1501 West 5th Street
- Austin, Texas
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- Performers:
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- Jan Barstow Manu Bird Jobst Kip Garth
- Jan Stevens Nicholas Schriber Joseph Zitt
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- Art Installation by Eureka Purity
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- The Shekhinah ...
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- (Sh'-KHEE-nah) in Jewish mysticism represents the presence of God as
- a divine female entity, embodying those aspects of God that are most
- closely connected to the people.
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- Judith Plaskow has written that:
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- "The Shekhinah is precisely that aspect of God with which we can
- be in relation, and it is experienced in joint study, community
- gatherings, lovemaking and other moments of common and
- intimate human connection."
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- Shekhinah: The Presence...
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- is a multimedia dance performance piece derived from the movements,
- texts, and structures of Jewish worship. Focusing on the figure of the
- Shekhinah as she appears to the congregants at a morning service, it is
- designed for audiences from a wide variety of cultural and religious
- backgrounds.
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- Shekhinah examines the balance between the dual aspects of worship:
- the worshippers' internal relationship to the sacred and their external
- relationship to their community and the outer world.
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- The performance text of Shekhinah is derived from Joseph Zitt's book
- of the same name, which was based on the original movement design of
- the performance.
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- The music for Shekhinah is created entirely from voices, including:
- . field recordings from the Western Wall in Jerusalem
- . live improvisations based on texts from the Jewish liturgy
- . electronic manipulations of recorded improvisations based
- on traditional melodies and modes.
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- Human Systems ...
-
- ... is a multimedia arts group devoted to the creation of distinctive
- works using original movement, text, music, and visual design. Human
- Systems' productions extend beyond theatre into video, the visual arts,
- the printed word, and computer system design.
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- Human Systems' work is simultaneously cybernetic and organic,
- celebrating the freedom with which wide varieties of people can work
- within common structures, in collaboration with each other and with
- novel performance technology.
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- For more information, call (512) 450-1916.
-