LEG UP 2019 | Emerging Choreographers Showcase produced by Dezza Dance
Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre
Choreographer: Rachel Helten
Performer: Rachel Helten
Music: Los Jaivas
Music Edits: Ezequiel Peralta
This work explores the resilient nature of the human spirit. While traveling through Argentina, Bolivia and Peru I was inspired by the stories of perseverance and bravery of the people and the majesty of the Andean landscapes. Much of the movement was generated in outside in nature during our adventure.
We endure
Through rising tides and moving mountains.
We praise the skiesThe place of her sighes.
On the bewildering plane
Between the air of feathered hope
And the shadowed below
To hold hands with the refrain
That ties the unifying rope
We begin to row
Through the river of night
That depicts the fate Of every color and size "We are one" says the light
Echoed on tapestry and slate
The tale of our boundless ties
On every side we are embraced without condition
By sweet Mother Earth
Mirroring her curves we are encased
By her ambition
And her tender mirth
Humanity battles for self worth
Deluding the purity
Of our inherent splendor
They kneel at the herth
Of their sanity
Crying for surrender
The snake, the puma and the condor exclaim
What is beneath, in between and high above
Lives in me and you
And every drop of the cosmos will sustain
The terrain of our vital truth; our love
It resounds in the dew Of each morning and the dirt of every hour
Great glory in remembering
They will not be able to kill us
We endure in her dances, the ancient flower
Her songs they tried dismembering
The monolith that perists through the dusts
Of misguided shaming disguised
As proclaiming the truth
Twisting the spirit by our ego.
But again the hope is reprised
Within their eyes from youth
The stories of the wise that go
Beyond the bewildering plane
Between the air of feathered hope
And the shadowed below
To hold hands with the refrain
That ties the unifying rope
We begin to row
Through the river of night
Sewing a connecting thread
Escaping dread Enduring might
Ensuring light
Through rising tides and moving mountains
We praise the skies
The place of her sighes
-Rachel Helten
Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre
Choreographer: Rachel Helten
Performer: Rachel Helten
Music: Los Jaivas
Music Edits: Ezequiel Peralta
This work explores the resilient nature of the human spirit. While traveling through Argentina, Bolivia and Peru I was inspired by the stories of perseverance and bravery of the people and the majesty of the Andean landscapes. Much of the movement was generated in outside in nature during our adventure.
We endure
Through rising tides and moving mountains.
We praise the skiesThe place of her sighes.
On the bewildering plane
Between the air of feathered hope
And the shadowed below
To hold hands with the refrain
That ties the unifying rope
We begin to row
Through the river of night
That depicts the fate Of every color and size "We are one" says the light
Echoed on tapestry and slate
The tale of our boundless ties
On every side we are embraced without condition
By sweet Mother Earth
Mirroring her curves we are encased
By her ambition
And her tender mirth
Humanity battles for self worth
Deluding the purity
Of our inherent splendor
They kneel at the herth
Of their sanity
Crying for surrender
The snake, the puma and the condor exclaim
What is beneath, in between and high above
Lives in me and you
And every drop of the cosmos will sustain
The terrain of our vital truth; our love
It resounds in the dew Of each morning and the dirt of every hour
Great glory in remembering
They will not be able to kill us
We endure in her dances, the ancient flower
Her songs they tried dismembering
The monolith that perists through the dusts
Of misguided shaming disguised
As proclaiming the truth
Twisting the spirit by our ego.
But again the hope is reprised
Within their eyes from youth
The stories of the wise that go
Beyond the bewildering plane
Between the air of feathered hope
And the shadowed below
To hold hands with the refrain
That ties the unifying rope
We begin to row
Through the river of night
Sewing a connecting thread
Escaping dread Enduring might
Ensuring light
Through rising tides and moving mountains
We praise the skies
The place of her sighes
-Rachel Helten