Sha Sha Higby fantasy
URGENT! ONLY 19 DAYS LEFT! TO MAKE A $3500 MATCHING GRANT-YOU ARE A PART OF IT,AND WE NEED YOUR INPUT
Recently, I received a grant from Center for Cultural Innovation and the Zellerbach Foundation to begin the production of my latest work, Tempted by the Tempest. Although generous, this grant only pays for a small portion of the production. I am interested in raising a minimum of $3,570 to cover the costs for rehearsal space, the creation of intricate paper masks, in addition to set and costume design.
This project gives me the opportunity to collaborate with a Noh Theater actor Jubilith Moore, who has a similar aesthetic and will significantly contribute to the production and evolution of my craft. I am excited to begin working on this project and developing the characters’ costumes and environment. I will make the costumes out of huge paper drawings with golden backs mount them onto cardboard to make wings, arms, and legs and then project an environment of visual images of the drawings over the space. This will be our setting! See more about it at:
http://www.usaprojects.org/project/tempted_by_the_tempest
Long is the journey before us
Today we don our traveling dress
Clad in traveling attire
We take Boat.
Soft Spring breezes belly our sails
Gazing ahead and behind
For Days past Count
Till what once seemed Remote
Drifts into View
The breezes murmur in the Pines
The day is closing in
The bell on the hill tolls
The shore mists veils the waves.
Countless years have passed
Dropping a snowy mantle on our heads
…A thousand years of evergreen fill my palms
Plucking a sprig of plum
Petals like spring snow fall over my robe
O blessed vision under the lovely moon.
Dread spirits quelling as arms are stretched out
Life and treasure gathering as arms are inward drawn
“A thousand autumns! Rejoices the people’s hearts
Ten thousand years endows new life
With the swishing of the wind in the Twin Pines
Gladness fills each heart.!
Gladness fills each heart!
From Takasago
Tags: costume, Japan, mask, Noh Theater, puppetry, sculpture, Shakespeare, Tempest
