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2011 in review

Sha Sha Higby — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:01:17 +0000

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2011 in review

Sha Sha Higby — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:59:33 +0000

2011 in review.

Happy New Year around the corner

Sha Sha Higby — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:41:29 +0000

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

Upcoming performance and workshop

Sha Sha Higby — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:36:51 +0000

Please note that there is also a workshop at the o’Hanlon Center in Mill Valley Tuesday the 13th 6-9pm 415 383-4331 and 388-4331.

Sha Sha Higby’s

FOLDS IN THE SEA

Sunday December 11th

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

” Evolving canvasses to animate stories of life, death, and rebirth.” SF Bay Guardian

“Borrows from the past, and creates something wholly unique!…always
mesmerizing performance art.” SF Chronicle

Mill Valley (Nov.8 2010) – 142 Throckmoron Theater is pleased to have a nights of performance of Sha Sha Higby’s world premiere of ”Folds in the Sea”, her latest work.

The show explores a whimsical journey of life, death, and rebirth through ephemeral images that evoke the passage of time and day, or the shifting of the seasons. Using the manipulation of hand crafted materials, textures and exotic sculptural costume interwoven with puppetry, dance and intricate props, her work creates a journey in which movement and stillness meet. Shreds of memory lace into a drama of a thousand intricate pieces, slowly moving toward a sense of patience and timelessness.

For tickets, the public may call Brown Paper Tickets at 800-838-3006 or visit www.shashahigby.com. For further info 415-868-2409. Check out her work beforehand at Bolinas Stinson Open Studios Thanksgiving Weekend, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, November 26-28.

Higby uses sculpture as a body costume that can be integrated with theater and dance to create its own poetic plot in solo performance. Internationally renowned for her evocative and haunting performances, she is influenced by her studies in Asia, Noh Theater, Butoh and shadow puppets. It takes Higby two years to make and develop a new costume sculpture that slowly “grows into the performance” – at each of which she adds a new prop to play with to transform herself and the audience together into one.

Sha Sha Higby received a BS in art from Skidmore College and spent five years in Indonesia under a Fulbright Scholarship. She also studied for a year in Japan, and six months in India under an Indo-American Fellowship. She has received numerous awards and grants, including a NEA Fellowship in solo theater and grants from the Zellerbach Family Fund and from The Japan Foundation for collaborative artistic work.

She has performed internationally at the Festival Internazional delle Marionnnette; Divaldo Korzo in Slovakia; the Festival of Sydney in Australia; Singapore Festival of the Arts; Hong Kong Fringe Festival; Tokyo National College Of Art; the Tokyo Textile Institute: Puppet Theater Festival; and the Stara Zagora in Bulgaria. In addition; she has exhibited her work at the Portland Art Museum; Arizona State University; San Francisco Folk and Craft Art Museum in San Francisco; Honolulu Academy of Arts; University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Columbia College Inter-Arts Program in New York; San Francisco Asian Art Museum; The Glass Museum in Tacoma, Washington; and Baltimore College of Art.

FOR CALENDAR EDITORS

WHAT: Sha Sha Higby’s FOLDS IN THE SEA

WHEN: Sunday, December 11,2011 at 7:30 pm

WHERE: Street Address

142 Throckmorton Avenue

Mill Valley, California

TICKETS: $18 advance – $22 at the door $12 children $2 discount at door for Theatre Bay Area Members.

For tickets, call 800-838-3006 or visit www.shashahigby.com.

FoFor more information, visit Sha Sha Higby’s website at www.shashahigby.com.

For a photo, visit www.shashahigby.com or email shasha@shashahigby.com. and click on ‘schedule or press in the very bottom of the page or request one of the photos

Purchase Tickets

You may purchase tickets online or through our box office at 142 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley.

Box Office Hours

Monday thru Saturday 2:00pm � 6:00pm. We are closed Sundays except during shows. We accept Mastercard and Visa.

Box Office Phone Number

415-383-9600

Location

142 Throckmorton Theatre is located in Southern Marin County just 8 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco and 12 miles south of San Rafael.

Street Address

142 Throckmorton Avenue

Mill Valley, California

Website: www.142ThrockmortonTheatre.org

Information: info@142ThrockmortonTheatre.org

Sha Sha will perform on Friday 1111! in Davis!

Sha Sha Higby — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:44:56 +0000

Hey 11:11 ‘ers…
“Take the time to practice time and time converts to art.” Jose Arguelles

In search of the Collective Imagination…

You are an active part in imagining the planet. Celebrate with us as we crystallize a brilliant future and embrace global change through art, dance and music.

Come see “Hands of Gold” by world class performance artist Sha Sha Higby…at 8 pm. Sha Sha is known for her evocative and haunting performances using the exquisite and ephemeral body sculpture she meticulously creates herself and moves within (see attached photo).www.shashahigby.com

Plus, the evening will feature an ensemble of amazing live and musical performances.

Parisian Gypsy group Djinn takes the stage at 9 pm, delivering a modern blend of ancient party music, with human beatbox, electronics, a taste of middle eastern flava and a mouthful of NYC style. www.djinnnyc.com

Participate in an 11:11 meditation and celebration to help the planet move closer towards world peace led by Nik and I.

Taking us through the midnight hour will be Oakland-based performer/DJ Eminent Bee, whose
eclectic mix of electronic dance and global fusion will ignite the moonlight.

Hope you have picked up your tickets already.
If not there are still some available. Please call The Wardrobe at 530-756-1128 if you need to have
some reserved to be picked up at the door the night of the party.
You may tell/invite a friend if they are feeling compelled to join us for the 11:11 world celebration.
Also, you can visit our website at www.thei11.com for more updates through out the week.
Please, note that the fashion theme is : Wear your collective imagination and please wear layers since 1/2 the party is outside.

It’s time to be elevenized…

Metanoifully Yours,
Heather

–
Heather Caswell

The Wardrobe
206 E Street
Davis, CA 95616

530.400.4094 cell

www.TheWardrobe.com
www.facebook.com/TheWardrobeDavis
www.youtube.com/user/TheWardrobeBoutique

Sha Sha’s in Pella,Iowa performing Oct 24-28th

Sha Sha Higby — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:31:25 +0000

Sha Sha Higby, performance artist. Her costumes, masks and sculptures will be on display. Sha Sha Higby will be in the Allison B. Allen artist in residence Oct. 24 – 27 offering workshops and a performance.
Location Information:
Central College – Lubbers Center for the Visual Arts (View Map)
812 University
Pella, IA 50219
Phone: 1-877-462-3687
Room: Mills Gallery

This is Sha Sha

Sha Sha Higby — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:30:57 +0000

Dance in Sculptural Costume by Sha Sha Higby

Sha Sha’s recent work

Sha Sha Higby — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:03:32 +0000

Below you can see the closeups of the pieces I have been working on for the last few months that I just had to send off to Japan the other day,so sad I will miss it. I learned alot about the process. This millefiore process is hard to do. I saw it in VietNam. The mother of pearl has to brought to the surface every two layers of color painted on otherwise one looses the mother of pearl in the work.
CLICK HERE FOR SLIDESHOW OF PROCESS

Sha Sha teaches a workshop at Washburn- Mulvane Museum

Sha Sha Higby — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:29:43 +0000

Sha Sha gave a workshop ,one for adults and one for parents and children at Washburn-Mulvane Museum mid September. We had a lot of fun and you can see more picturesof the workshop by clicking this link: Sha Sha’s exhibit too.

Vastness of Java.

Sha Sha Higby — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 05:13:06 +0000

To complete my cycle, I vow to come back and make a long awaited artistic collaboration. Maybe I can’t get funding and have to schlep the costume. All these artists seem to move outside the system anyway. It was good to walk the city I used to live in this trip to feel it because I walked it instead of flying through in a taxi. I could feel it more. It made me sad to see the changes but I could still sense the old places. A lady was still weighing gold on the side of the road that had been there 30 years before.
I felt like I was walking through my past constantly remembering a ghost of my younger self. Having tread these roads many years before, like a second life, I knew all the corners, caverns of time. Back to a place that lives in ones memory as if it never existed and step into it again with all the shadows of the past, dauntingly unearthing my past. Seems strangely irreverent that I spent my time in Indonesia 32 years ago.
That world and situation no longer exists, all dissolving as we pass by. So what is important is just now.

From above in the plane I look down… Java so immensely vast with billions of tiny lights and itsy minute houses, thick blankets of lights and ships in the harbor, remembering the silence of entering in Surabaya harbor, that ancient harbor full of new and haunted ships.

I cannot see Jakarta from the plane anymore, it seems a piece of my internal core is here in Indonesia so fluid yet also so foreign.
The thunderous clouds spiraling way upward and below intricate patterns of rice fields like designs in the earth.
I wake up from my doze only to remember bits of high Javanese language unearthed, ah… the vastness of Java.