Venus Enroute, from the 'Suite of Botticelli Venus Poems'

Videopoetry webpage with descriptions: http://sites.google.com/site/brendaclews/videopoetry The poetry is an excerpt from my "Botticelli Suite of Venus Poems":

She stopped to rest.

Momentarily, in the field of pure possibility, her position unfixed, indeterminate.

Without hovering, or insecurity.

It was an image of being in the vast field of life.

Without knowing. In a position of unknowing, positionless, I suppose. Existing without location or momentum. Vibrating with possibility. It wasn't exciting or fearful, just what is.

Nothing is fixed or certain, though there are always solutions to problems.

Then she continued on.

She didn't doubt her certainties.

http://sites.google.com/site/brendaclews/home/Botticelli-venus-poems

The music clip is from Lena Selyanina's 'Sarah's Dance,' from her album, "Piano Poetry," which carries a Creative Commons license and may be found here: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/45056

The chair sequence and the poem added to it had no original connection. I cut the clip from two hours of footage as perhaps 'workable.' Then I searched for a poem. It's amazing how the poem 'fits' the movement, huh? Creatively perhaps we are a gesture, a gesture where here poetry and dance are an aligned fusion.

Albeit, the resulting video is a bit comic. The tag on the back of my dress? As soon as I saw the footage I grabbed the dress and cut it off. The other camera? Ahh, I'm still just learning how to make videos and don't have a clone plugin to remove these elements. Enjoy the humor!

(Or perhaps, in context of the poem, since Venus has swung her scallop shell around to enter the world of experience, we could say the tag on her dress reads: 'If this Vintage Venus is found wandering, send her back to "Mount Olympus"!)
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Postcript, May 31, 2010.

Kean Ghiero has created a video that uses a clip from my video with music and a poem of his own- "COSMIC WASTE (The Big Leak)" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwxUCP_i2HA

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• performance poetry
• poetry
• videopoetry
• dance
• humor
• Vintage Venus
• chair dance
• Brenda Clews

[brendaclews]

keanghiero, thank you so much! And for subbing to me... I am very glad to have found a fellow poet making videos! Love your ocean one...

[johnfwalter]

The dance piece both enacts, and comments upon, the poem´s meditation on purpose amid Heraclitean flux with panache and yet perfectly controlled movement of sequence through doubt to the dancer´s ´certainties´, whirling in the field of possibility. Chaos not so much tamed, as claimed by expression into fluid tracery of poetic beats, or vectors.

A huge thumbs up, Ms. Clews, as poetry performance video. You make full use of your body´s stasis, opening to steps, and finally effortless flow.

[keanghiero]

This is SUPER-Outstanding for voice, words & images, Brenda, I am your fanatic now!