Monday, July 19, 2021

REALIGNMENTS

 

REALIGNMENTS


 

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REALIGNMENTS

 

a physically remote but spiritually connected collaboration

 

 

Debbie Danbrook

music and music video – Toronto ON Canada

Healing Music: 

 

Cilla Vee

dance and dance video – Asheville NC USA

Cilla Vee LifeArts: 





During the year 2021, as the global community struggles to realign itself in the wreckage of pandemic, the REALIGNMENTS project seeks to promote restoration and renewal for all.

Drawing on the seasonal alignments of our planet Earth in relationship to the sun at the significant points of Equinox and Solstice, we create music and dance that presents an opportunity to realign ourselves.




 

RENEWAL – Spring Equinox

 

RESPLENDENT – Summer Solstice

 

RESTORATION – Autumn Equinox

 

REFLECTION – Winter Solstice

 




 

At each quarter of the year, performance artist Cilla Vee (based in Asheville NC USA) creates a dance video piece, while healing music artist Debbie Danbrook (based in Toronto Canada) creates music in response and unites all the elements into a complete video piece.

Each piece is 12 minutes long. The complete project is a 48-minute work.

 

Each artist also works with local collaborators. Cilla Vee working with four different female video artists and Debbie with her studio associates. 

 

Throughout history, different factions of humanity have observed collective festivals, celebrations and holy days, individuals their birthdays and personal anniversaries. Yet these four seasonal re-alignments of the planet we share are something common to all of us.





About the Artists:

 

Debbie Danbrook is a musician, composer and recording artist specializing in music for meditation, relaxation and healing. She is a Master player of the Shakuhachi flute, an ancient Japanese instrument that was originally played by monks as a type of Zen called 'Suizen' or blowing Zen. Debbie is the first woman to have mastered this difficult instrument and weaves the Shakuhachi together with her voice in her ethereal music.

Her music has been embraced by healers and spiritual practitioners around the globe. She has released over 20 CD's of music through her company Healing Music. www.healingmusic.com

She has performed internationally and played at EXPO in Japan and has played for the Japanese Prince and Princess. Debbie was invited to offer her healing music at the Genocide Memorial in Rwanda.

Debbie offers: Music Meditations for individuals and groups. Mantra Sessions - create your own, personal life Mantra. Clearing and Inviting in Light Ceremonies for homes and work places. Now available on line on Skype, FaceTime and WhatsApp.

Debbie is an ordained Reverend and Priestess and performs Memorials and Celebration of Life ceremonies.

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Healing Music also offers a Sleep Program to help listeners get a deeper and more beneficial sleep. www.sleep-program.com

 



 

Cilla Vee is the artist moniker of Claire Elizabeth Barratt, an international inter-disciplinary artist with a performing arts background. She is the director of Cilla Vee Life Arts  – an arts organization with a focus on cross-media collaboration. Her work utilizes artistic disciplines of dance, movement, music, sound, text, media, visual arts, installation and performative action.

Claire received her professional training in London at The Laban Centre For Movement and Dance and at the London Studio Centre For Performing Arts. Her pre-professional training includes the Royal Academy of Dance and the Royal Schools of Music examinations.

She also served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York and was a Co-Founding director of Circle Modern Dance in Knoxville, TN.

She is the creator of the Living Art pedagogy for performance, accredited by Plymouth University through her MFA degree with the Transart Institute for Creative Research.

She has received a number of awards, including project sponsorship from JP Morgan Chase, NYSCA and the NEA.

 

Claire now uses Asheville NC as her home base and tours frequently to connect and collaborate with a variety of international artists.

#cillaveelifearts

 

“My work as an artist blurs boundaries and crosses categories. Re-defining the traditional concepts of a “piece” and challenging the conventions of performance, time, space and audience relationships.”


 





SPRING EQUINOX

REALIGNMENTS

RENEWAL


 

video concept, direction and performance - Cilla Vee

cillavee.com

 

video artist, camera and edit - Martha Skinner

marthaskinner.com

 

music and soundscape - Debbie Danbrook and Chris Gartner

healingmusic.com

 

sound engineer - Steve Raiman

kensingtonsound.studio

 

shot on location at Richmond Hill Park, Asheville NC USA

 

march 2021

 

 

RENEWAL video link:  

https://youtu.be/72YDVTbZZ8M



 

Renewal is a joyful yet gentle meditation, a soft awakening from winter. The Spring Fairy carries the anticipation of new life, running and spinning through the raindrops of the forest, calling the trees from their dormant state and strengthening the heartbeat of the earth. Earth responds by blooming with spring colors – the first flowers of the year.

 

Renewal is the first in the Realignments series of Equinox and Solstice meditations.



SUMMER SOLSTICE

 


REALIGNMENTS

RESPLENDENT

 

 


video concept, direction and performance - Cilla Vee

cillavee.com

 

video artist, camera and edit - Sara Baird

 

music and soundscape - Debbie Danbrook and Chris Gartner

healingmusic.com

 

with cicada field recordings by Liz Lang / Aurascene

stormylang.com/auracene

 

sound engineer - Steve Raiman

kensingtonsound.studio

 

shot on location at Lighthouse Inlet Heritage Preserve, Folly Beach, Charleston NC

and Lake Powhatan, Asheville NC

 

may 2021

 

RESPLENDENT – YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/vcgiT25SvuI

 




Resplendent is a deep heat of summer fantasy, a meditational journey. Warm, golden sun and cool, blue water guide the imagination to flow and float through this Summer Solstice dreamscape. A key to total relaxation.

 

Resplendent is the second in the Realignments series of Equinox and Solstice meditations.





AUTUMN EQUINOX

 

REALIGNMENTS

RESTORATION

 



 

video concept, direction and performance - Cilla Vee

cillavee.com

 

video artist, set director, camera and edit – Liz Lang

stormylang.com

 

lighting and assistant to Ms. Lang – Kimathi Moore

 

grip – Chloe Harnett-Hargrove

 

music and soundscape - Debbie Danbrook

healingmusic.com

 

sound engineer - Steve Raiman

kensingtonsound.studio

 

shot on location at Rattlesnake Lodge, Blue Ridge Parkway, Weaverville NC USA

 

August 2021

 

RESTORATION – YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/VllqRpyPv4s

 


 


Restoration is a midnight dreamscape.

Drawing on the restorative powers of the night … 

of sleep and dreams.

A deep connection with ancient earth … with mud and tree and root.

 

Restoration is the third in the Realignments series of Equinox and Solstice meditations.




WINTER SOLSTICE

 

 

REALIGNMENTS

REFLECTION

 


 

 

video concept, direction and performance – Cilla Vee

cillavee.com

 

video artists

camera – Julie Becton Gillum

supplemental footage and edit – Claire Elizabeth Barratt

 

music and soundscape – Debbie Danbrook

healingmusic.com

 

sound engineer – Steve Raiman

kensingtonsound.studio

 

shot on location at Shining Rock Wilderness NC USA

 

November 2021

 

REFLECTION – Youtube link:

https://youtu.be/7HNJ5rJz1_c





 

Reflection draws upon archetypal fantasy and magic to cleanse, heal and find peace. Situated on the Shining Rock, the winter priestess provides a safe haven from which to reflect on the past year as if viewed in a series of photographs, the heart and mind as if seen in a mirror.

From this perspective one can hold onto all memories that bring joy, while releasing ones of pain and trauma – throwing them off the rock to be carried away by the wind.

 

Reflection is the fourth and final in the Realignments series of Equinox and solstice meditations.





REALIGNMENTS photo montages by Chloe Harnett-Hargrove









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