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"The force of primary geometric forms is everywhere in the world. . . once you begin to get the sense of shape, then you can see that the world of perception is actually made of primary geometries. It is just that there are so many of them all at once that the natural world seems to have feathered edges."
--Avatar Adi Da Samraj

With works from Adi Da's Image-Art projected in the background, the contemporary dance piece, "Feathered Edges", was performed at the Adidam Midwest Center in Chicago, in celebration of Adi Da's 74th Birthday.

"FEATHERED EDGES, a joint creation that encapsulates rapturous elements that make the couple's forays into contemporary dance so compelling. They swirl and yearn, hover over one another and intertwine. In the Everts' world, geometry in motion is often a means to sensuality in motion."
--DONALD ROSENBERG (THE PLAIN DEALER/Cleveland)

''When Tom and Susana perform together on stage my own reality of time, place, and context is blurred. Their dance duets embrace their dualistic energies with intrinsic vulnerability and compassion."
--DANIEL WHITLEY (Visual Artist/Cleveland)

Choreographers and Dancers: Susana Weingarten & Tom Evert
Costume Design: Luzano Rey & Janet Bolick
Lighting Design: Deb Malcolm
Music: The Cinematic Orchestra
Sound engineer: Jordan Davis
Video: Alejandro Rivera

Projected Image-Art:
The Scale of Perfection, Part One: NYC, NYCSTET I (from Geome Three) 2006, by Adi Da Samraj, © 2013 ASA

Tags: Image-Art   dance  

Adi Da Samraj: "The force of primary geometric forms is everywhere in the world. . . once you begin to get the sense of shape, then you can see that the world of perception is actually made of primary geometries. It is just that there are so many of them all at once that the natural world seems to have feathered edges."

Choreographers and Dancers: Susana Weingarten & Tom Evert
Costume Design: Luzano Rey & Janet Bolick
Lighting Design: Deb Malcolm
Music: The Cinematic Orchestra
Sound engineer: Jordan Davis
Video: Alejandro Rivera

Projected Image Art:
The Scale of Perfection, Part One: NYC, NYCSTET I (from Geome Three) 2006, by Adi Da Samraj, © 2013 ASA

Tags: dance   image-art  

"True Water" is a dance based on Adi Da's wisdom about sexuality and equanimity.

Choreographer/Dancer: Susana Weingarten
Music: The Empire Brass Quintet
Costume Design: Ratava Jarmas
"Midnight Sun" Set Design: Molly Watson

© 2012 Dancevert

Tags: dance   Susana Weingarten  

A dance that creatively develops the meaning of Satsang. Dedicated to Adi Da.

Choreographers/Dancers: Susana Weingarten and Tom Evert
Music: Phillip Glass and Ravi Shankar
Voiceover: Adi Da
Costume Design: Janet Bolick
"Midnight Sun" Set Design: Molly Watson

© 2012 Dancevert

Tags: dance   Susana Weingarten   Tom Evert  

"Ego Act" is a dance based on Adi Da's wisdom about the nature of egoity, or, Adi Da describes it, "the fundamental activity of self-contraction, or the presumption of separate and separative existence".

Choreographer/Dancer: Tom Evert
Music: George Crumb (as interpreted by The Kronos Quartet)
Costume Design: Raymond Zander III
Props: Tom Evert
"Midnight Sun" Set Design: Molly Watson

© 2012 Dancevert

Tags: dance   Susana Weingarten   Tom Evert  

A dance that creatively develops the meaning of "Satsang". Choregraphed and danced by devotees Tom Evert and Susana Weingarten, and dedicated to Adi Da. Costume Design by Janet Bolick. Set Design by Molly Watson. Music by Phillip Glass and Ravi Shankar. Voiceover by Adi Da.

Tags: dance   Susana Weingarten   Tom Evert