October 2011
2 posts
Only Two More Classes Until Next Year! →
Weekly Physical Acting Class - Thursday Nights...
~How You Train Is the Best Barometer for How You Work~ THURSDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 6th! CREATIVE PHYSICALITY with Danyon Davis Thursday Nights (thru 11/3) 7:30pm - 9:30pm at Space On White 81 White St. (btwn B’way & Lafayette) $15 - Drop-In $25 - 2 Class Pass Please email ” creativephysicality@soulstrata.net” to reserve a place, or if you have any questions. Creative Physicality...
September 2011
2 posts
#Movement for Actors (and Others!)
CREATIVE PHYSICALITY
A Weekly Two-Hour Workout For Your Body and Your Creativity ::practice channeling your instinct, imagination, and emotions:: ::develop your strength, flexibility, and endurance:: Thursday NightsSeptember 15th - November 3rd 7:30pm - 9:30pm $50 Four Class Pass $15 For Drop-In Space limited to 10 participants per week. Email creativephysicality@soulstrata.net to reserve a...
Wisdom Recalled on the Advent of the School Year
“When entering into a relationship with an institution, it is imperative to make friends as soon as possible with the security, custodial, and cafeteria staff - they control your quality of life.”
- Max Tzu, “The Art of Slaying Debt”.
“Ha. Ha. Ha. You’re laughing now— but pretty soon - you’ll be crawling down the street, on your hands and knees,...
August 2011
1 post
To Affirm. A Beginning.
to create art. to sing with THE GREAT HEART OF THE UNIVERSE! the organ of the cathedral. something authentic and full. not copied. not digital. not removed. but here. present. whole. organic. organistic. alive. dancing with vitality. yoked. singing with the deep heart of the universe.
::REBUILD::REVITALIZE::RESTORE::RESUME::
July 2011
1 post
please show some Love to Chris Wells and the Secret City. celebrate his ability to connect new york city’s artists with what is good in the world. we Love Chris. we need the Secret City. please Give. please, thank you.
February 2011
2 posts
August 2008
3 posts
WE ROUST THE ‘VAYGS
Ah — Venice. My new (if somewhat temporary) home. Home of summer surf camps for kids, electricity crackling off the power lines, glamorous bougainvillea — and, well, the homeless. The homeless situation in Venice, indeed in L.A. and all of California (somewhere between 300-400K, depending on who you ask) is prolific. And I say this only somewhat tongue-in-cheek— the statistic indicates a...
WatchWelcome to the Abraxas Stage ~
June 2008
8 posts
April 2008
1 post
content update 2
as per Hugh’s request, i have added a few recordings to the Abraxas Stage inter-web staging area. there is a new tab for “Tunes” at same site: http://web.mac.com/danyondavis/iWeb/Site/Photos.html i guess the next step will be some kind of home page skin - then perhaps a mission statement page, aggregation of training video, and a folder with the MONODY and OF RIVERS, OF DAYS...
March 2008
40 posts
ORIENTATION
for the record, i am at an artist retreat center in Harveyville, Kansas. the name of the place is The Harveyville Project. it is run by Nikol Lohr and Ron Miller. Nikol is a fiber artist (i refer you to her book and website, Naughty Needles Knitting). Ron is a painter, tattoo artist, and well-practiced musician (having just returned from the SxSW music festival, where he did some tattooing and...
WHAT _IS_ ALL THIS CRAP ABOUT THOREAU?!
i have two independent projects that I have developed in the past four years. they are both based equally on really compelling text and a theory i have about how you can morph sign language distally to make it resonate with dance values, while still utilizing the emerging shapes as narrative language. i kind of swoop in and out of the method of physical actions while executing the work – and it’s...
90% OF THIS GAME IS HALF MENTAL
hard to believe this experience has already turned the corner and is pulling for home. today is a strange day. i don’t have the energy to do anything. i spent a good deal of time in the gym working on these stability exercises. part of which is that INDIAN BASIC SKETCH video. there are not a whole lot of places you can go with extending one leg if you don’t have better than average flexibility....
Watch a simple series of shapes eventually intended to be a kind of platform for some distal signing ideas.
so i’ve allowed myself to get a little jumbled and flustered regarding all of this posting stuff, but i’m trying to press on. hopefully, i will be breaking down a number of ideas over the next couple of days (i thought that one of my main reasons for coming out here was to work toward some level of organization!)… it is my sincere belief that i will be better served by thinking of my...
AUSTERE WILDERNESS
“I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back to this ground: what have I to do with ploughs? I cut another furrow than you see.” - -himself d. thoreau let me start by stating a few practical matters that i wish to accomplish in my sequestration in these remote parts: 1) the generation and digital documentation of certain pidgin...
i can also be found most days hanging out at the (aforeposted) Ronald Reagan Fitness Center. and i have a bit of laboratory space carved out in the gym where i knit together and practice a physical training regimen. i do this to build up stamina, develop strength, and work on my flexibility because the version of the Lord’s work that i’ve been entrusted with takes physicality as it’s initial...
(this is what we call a segue in the trade, folks…) Nikol is a fiber artist. but i mean The Real Deal Holyfield- - she came back from a sheep sheering the second day i was here with, like, two garbage bags full of freshly shorn fleece that she is prepared to wash, dye, and spin by hand. in only a matter of weeks, she will be receiving three sheep of her own and installing them in the backyard –...
