Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art by Audra Skuodas Image: Front Cover
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Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art by Audra Skuodas Image: Title Page : It was New Mexico that liberated me from the present era of civilization, the great era of material and mechanical development." --D.H. Lawerence Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life Art in Life, Life as Art Choreography is an art of the puzzle. Assembling the which is scattered (names, bodies, energies, processes) not in order to form a monolithic block but to understand and arrange the variations, make them co-exixt in a space in dance, in comprehension, in life, where each fragment, each endeavour, holds a shared secret. The breath of the images and their shared morphologies, not an album of dead images or dead days, but a flame burning to transcend. "The form is mechanical when on any given material we impress a pre-determined form. The organic form on the other hand is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within." -- Coleridge
Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 1 (overlay) Once long ago before relinquishing one's own power of intuition, awareness and responsibility, when one entered the world full of joy and wonder and through acts of participation received a glimmer of the magic and ecstasy of the Cosmic Dance.
Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 2 (underlay) An action where the art is not mere effect,-- not sentimental and not purely abstract, but a conflux of forces: philosophical, cosmically aware and bodily sensate, establishing correspondences in the process. Self-definition, self-refinement and self-transcendence in the fashioning of every day objects. . .
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Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 4 (underlay): then art did not exist in the context of marketer, interpreter, mediator and critic -- it was an act of love. . . love needs no intermediaries. . .
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Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 6 (underlay): Art was not an elitist commodity removed from every day life. In fact art was part of every aspect of one's life. . . it was a wisdom, an offering and a joy. . . witness Navaho weaving, basketry, eating and dancing. . . as in numerous ethnic cultures throughout history. .. not for show but for harmonizing of the self. . .
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Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 8 (underlay): In those bygone days art was not concerned with product as we have come to know it, a commodity to hype, market and sell. . . it was a way of entering life through self-discipline, self-refinement, and self creativity -- a way of experiencing the infinity of variables within defined limits. . . the ritual symbolic dances with their intricate woven patterns mimicking morphologies of nature and cosmos, harmonizing the senses. . . young girls embroidering samplers, women making quilts from scraps and fragments. . . acts of fine tuning mind and body. . . and mother's lullabies leaving an imprint on the soul. . . objects of sublime quality not made to sell,. . . actor of joy, love and expression. . .
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Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 10 (underlay): Then art was multiplicity in life and communion with life. . . a unity and sensitivity acquired through the process. . . devoid of dogmatism and aesthetic authorities. . . a recognition of the intuitive, of the Platonic "Harmony of the Spheres" accessible in each of us. . .
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Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 12 (underlay): Art was used to be a transcendent magical moment of revelation in the process of making and doing. . . i.e. the symbolic reference and interpretation of Nature in the pots of A coma, echoed across the globe as cosmic graphics in folk dance choreography. . . the patterns repeating themselves as crochet patterns. . . labrynthine, spiral full of complex geometry -- intuitive and symbolically transcendent. . . an accessing and harmonizing through doing
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Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art by Audra Skuodas Image: Page 14 (underlay): Art used to be a transforming act, a means of sensitizing the self in the process of making an object of love. We have come to a dismemberment of art from the process of living and learning. What is needed is an aesthetization of society from the inside rather than from the outside.
Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art by Audra Skuodas Image: Back Page: "Art is like religion in many respects. Its development does not consist of new discoveries which strike out old truths (this is only true of false dogmas which have not to do with truth ). It's development consists of new truths which are nothing more than organic development, the organic growth of earlier wisdom which is not voided by the later but as Wisdom and Truth continues to live and produce. The trunk of the tree does not become superfluous because of a new branch; it makes the branch possible. " -- Kandinsky the self definition of tree power to grow relationship of self to soil and atmosphere point of origin
Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art by Audra Skuodas
  • Audra Skuodas
  • Choreography of Dance, Choreography of Life, Art in Life, Life as Art, late 1990s
  • Vellum, foam core, silver paper, fabric, ink, pencil, acrylic paint
  • 30.75 x 22.75 x 0.5 in
  • Inv: 000309BOOK
  • Available
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