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About Me
- About this Site
- I'm a creative producer, artist + advocate living in Seattle. This notebook is updated periodically. It covers a wide range of what I'm working on, things I'm seeing and thinking about, as well resources for artists. // Tonya Lockyer was nominated for a Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award + named “one of the 13 key cultural change-makers in the Pacific Northwest” by The Seattle Times. They are Artistic Executive Director of Velocity (Seattle’s nexus for new dance), Chair of Capitol Hill Arts District, and Cornish College of the Arts faculty. Lockyer has produced over a hundred performance + education projects with artists such as Tere O'Connor, Ralph Lemon, zoe|juniper + Cherdonna. They have also sought to widen the exposure of Seattle dance by mentoring local artists, initiating the PNW Platform NYC; and curating for Seattle Art Fair, Bumbershoot, Frye Art Museum + Waterfront Seattle. Her own award-winning performances include inter-cultural collaborations, 24-hour solos, + public interventions presented by The National Museum of Women in the Arts, On the Boards, and in Canada, Europe, Russia. Lockyer is published in dance journals + the book Vu du Corps.
First Part: A Kiss of the Earth
ReplyDeleteIntroduction
The Augurs of Spring
Ritual of Abduction
Spring Rounds
Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes
Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One [the Sage]
The Kiss of the Earth (The Oldest and Wisest One) [(The Sage)]
The Dancing Out of the Earth, OR The Dance Overcoming the Earth
Second Part: The Exalted Sacrifice
Introduction
Mystic Circle of the Young Girls
The Naming and Honoring of the Chosen One
Evocation of the Ancestors OR Ancestral Spirits
Ritual Action of the Ancestors
Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)
Music Appropriations: Though the melodies draw upon folklike themes designed to evoke the feeling of songs passed down from ancient time, the only tune Stravinsky acknowledged to be directly drawn from previously-existing folk melody is the opening, first heard played by the solo bassoon. Several other themes, however, have been shown to have a striking similarity to folk tunes appearing in the Juskiewicz anthology of Lithuanian folk songs.
II
Fantasia’s Evolution of Earth
Travels through Space
Volcanoes and boiling lava
Amoebas
Sea anemones
Evolution of the fish
Earth and dinosaurs
Extinction
Earthquake
Eclipse
Panning the earth / fade