Performance Students Esalen shorter version.mov

For 4 days Sha Sha Higby taught participants different techniques of casting, wire structure, millinery, dying, collaging, and the use of many different kinds of adhesives. Everyone was very talented. At the end we gave an informal performance and Sha Sha Higby (in costume) summoned each one to come up into the light. Later, the next day, they tried them individually over the ocean at Esalen, Big Sur, California. The participants were talented, some were professional performers, some had never performed, and some were preparing a work for Burning Man.
Legendary international performance artist, Sha Sha Higby,
Whirls within a densely, lacelike thicket of her own design "In a Cloud of Glass", premier of exotic sculptural costume & puppetry dance, in a profound drama of memory and timelessness. Internationally renowned for her evocative and haunting performances, Higby is influenced by her studies in Asia, Noh Theater, and Butoh, shadow puppets.
" SF Chronicle: always mesmerizing performance art hero, Sha Sha Higby with her unique sculptured-costume performance art. ...moves fluidly inside an intricate, lacy mesh of twigs, batiked fabrics, handmade leaves, seedpods and large and tiny masks, puppets overlaid with kaleidoscopic projections, until her nearly naked body emerges from its evocative cocoon. ".
" It is a slow unfolding of almost primordial, dreamlike, other worldly images and sounds. The ability to bring a meditative state of mind to this performance is a definite plus. If you can slow down internally for the 60 minutes the show runs, and allow it to just pass over/through you it can be a deeply moving, almost to the point of tears, experience. (SFFringe)

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• Esalen
• costume
• sculpture
• workshop
• burning man
• mask
• headdress
• fantastic

[goodsofthespirit]

someday I hope to attend this workshop at Esalen, if you do it again, Sha Sha! You are always an inspiration to me!