E.E.!! Cleveland Performance Art Festival 1998 PART THREE: GARDEN OF EDEN with BEMBE rhythm

The audience receives slide whistles, shakers, and other instruments while attending the nation's most respected International Performance Art Festival, 1998. They begin to play, and the distant boom of a drum and horn band grows closer. Costumed clowns and cowbell players enter and proceed to journey through a shadow puppet history of the Earth, beginning with the dance of the sun and the moon, set to an ancient 7-count Nawaqt rhythm, flowering into the Garden of Eden, set to a classic 12-count Bembe. Environmental Encroachment.

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• EE
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• 1998
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• bembe
• nawaqt
• drum
• horn
• classic
• marching
• shadow puppet
• frame drum
• congas
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[misterpetey]

This still cracks me up after all these years. Nice integration of yoga practice with shadow clowning! Laurie Wenner's cool visuals, and some wicked down-home bembe rhythm. The Garden of Eden ends with a lover's spat...so sad

[artbelly]

petey~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :) fantastic video~!!!!!

[mikeebone]

Oh my! Tree of life! of course getting bonked on the head with the apple is one of the my most hilarious memories in EE history! I miss Jose's singing too!