The Book of Hours - Rena Milgrom, Hearn Gadbois

THE BOOK OF HOURS

concept / choreography / music: Hearn Gadbois & Rena Milgrom

"A book of hours was a type of devotional book popular in the middle ages
that contained psalms, prayers and
illuminated and inspirational texts. Our book of hours is a slice of our
inner life at this juncture, a section of our trajectorial
arc in which, using dance and music, we illuminate that part of our story
that is truth but not fact.

We start where we are, feeling time slip away from us, losing the thing we
absolutely cannot hold onto. We are fully-grown,
yet vulnerable as infants and no less needy. We want more and more, and
still more, and we expend prodigious amounts of energy
in the getting of it. We resolve to fortify our positive aspects while
cleansing ourselves of the negatives, and after a while we see that
success follows failure follows success in an apparent cruel cosmic joke, a
moebius strip of dualities. Our disillusionment serves as our
only guide, and driven by an intuited memory that all life is one, we
endeavor to walk a no-zone free of grasping, wanting and opinion.
We offer prayers. We abide. We move on.
May all beings know an end to their suffering."

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Rena
• Milgrom
• Hearn
• Gadbois
• dance
• www.renadance.cz