Preparing for Not-Two Is Peace 2013 poster: Matt Braithwaite length: 03:52 date added: March 14, 2013 event date: March 15, 2013 language: English views: 4291; views this month: 42; views this week: 21 A few scenes from the preparation at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on March 14, 2013. Some views of the famous old theatre itself. The use of back projection for the video produces very crisp images of Adi Da's art, without the projection being interrrupted by the dancers (who would stand between the projector and the lower part of the screen in a traditional forward projection system). For more on the performance, click here.
Quandra Loka: Opening Reception, May 24, 2014 poster: Matt Braithwaite length: 07:54 date added: May 26, 2014 event date: May 24, 2014 language: English views: 3216; views this month: 30; views this week: 16 Opening Reception of the exhibition, "Quandra Loka - The Indivisible Space of Conscious Light": color and black-and-white photographic images, combined with the full-wall multi-media installation. Showing at Galerie Pien Rademakers, Prinsengracht 570, Amsterdam, May 24 - June 29, 2014. Also appearing at the KunstRAI Art Fair in Amsterdam, June 4-9, 2014.
This video clip provides an introduction to the place (Florence), the dancers, the musicians, the art (images from Adi Da's Geome One: Alberti's Window, in four different colorings for the four seasons), and the costumes (which were color-coordinated with the art).
Also in this clip: Italian art critic, Giuliano Serafini (author of Matisse e il Mediterraneo and Goya, praises the combination of music, dance, and art: "It's the best!". Serafini, Keith Ferrone (director of the Florence Dance Company), and Ruchiradama Nadikanta all note the technological advance represented by the LED lighting in the back panels, that brought out the color in Adi Da's art to a far greater degree than in previous performances (assisted by new fabrications of Adi Da's art), and enlivened the dancers' performance.
Ruchiradama Nadikanta: "Absolutely exquisite! . . . It was one symphony — of dance, and art, and music. . . Adi Da was immensely present, infusing every note and every step, as well as shining through His extraordinary Art. . . You feel [the dancers] really dancing to the Art."
Ruchiradama Nadikanta on The Ascent of Orpheus poster: Matt Braithwaite speaker: Ruchiradama Nadikanta length: 20:01 date added: November 18, 2015 event date: July 7, 2015 language: English views: 5172; views this month: 56; views this week: 21 Ruchiradama Nadikanta is a senior devotee of Avatar Adi Da and a member of the Ruchira Sannyasin Order. She served as Adi Da's spiritual ambassador at the groundbreaking exhibition of Adi Da's Image-Art, The Ascent Of Orpheus, in the renowned Bargello Museum in Florence, which ran from July 7 - October 11, 2015. In this unique presentation (filmed on July 7, 2015), Ruchiradama Nadikanta takes us on a guided tour of the exhibition, describing the extraordinary nature of Adi Da's art, and providing us with an esoteric understanding of "The Ascent of Orpheus", and how it reflects Adi Da's incarnation and liberating work.
The Ascent of Orpheus: Final Walk Through poster: Matt Braithwaite length: 04:17 date added: December 1, 2015 event date: October 11, 2015 language: English views: 2790; views this month: 35; views this week: 12 “The Ascent of Orpheus” exhibition of Adi Da's art ran from July 9 - October 11, 2015, at the Bargello National Museum, Florence.
This video clip is a final walk through of the exhibition, on October 11, 2015.
For more information about the exhibition, click here.
Prelude to Winter poster: Numinous Involvements Production length: 02:49 date added: February 25, 2017 event date: 2016 language: English views: 3553; views this month: 53; views this week: 20 In 2016, on a summer night in the beautiful city of Florence, the Florence Dance Company performed the multimedia dance event, Quattro Maggiore ("Four Seasons") — set to the music of Vivaldi (his most well-known work, "Quattro Maggiore", performed live) and the art of Adi Da Samraj as the backdrop. Vivaldi's masterpiece has four parts, corresponding to the four seasons. In this newly expanded performance, musical preludes have been added before each season, featuring the musical composition and performance of hang drummer extraordinaire Paolo Borghi of Rome. In this excerpt, we hear Borghi's "Prelude" to Vivaldi's "Winter".
The performance took place on the Ponte Vecchio, a medieval multi-arch bridge over the Arno River in Florence, Italy. The Ponte Vecchio is one of the most historic bridges in the world, and the earliest bridge at this spot is believed to have been built in Roman times.
Pien Rademakers speaks with Ratatouille TV (Holland) about Quandra Loka, the exhibition of Adi Da's art at Galerie Pien Rademakers, from May 24, 2014 to June 29, 2014.
Not-Two Is Peace: The Word Goes Out! poster: ShastaMcBride length: 02:16 date added: October 1, 2012 event date: August 2012 language: English views: 3803; views this month: 31; views this week: 15 The Florence Dance Company performs the multimedia ballet, Not-Two Is Peace on July 22-23, 2012, in Florence, Italy.
Quandra Loka: Multi-Media Projection Installation poster: Stanley Hastings length: 01:24 date added: May 11, 2014 event date: May 24, 2014 language: English views: 2798; views this month: 22; views this week: 12 Preview of the multi-media installation, "Quandra Loka - The Indivisible Space of Conscious Light". Premiering at Galerie Pien Rademakers, Prinsengracht 570, Amsterdam, May 24 - June 29, 2014. Also appearing at the KunstRAI Art Fair in Amsterdam, June 4-9, 2014. For more about this exhibition, click here. tags: Image-ArtQuandra Loka
Quandra Loka: Sneak Preview poster: Stanley Hastings length: 02:01 date added: May 24, 2014 event date: May 24, 2014 language: English views: 2759; views this month: 26; views this week: 15 Sneak preview of the exhibition, "Quandra Loka - The Indivisible Space of Conscious Light": color and black-and-white photographic images, combined with the full-wall multi-media installation. Premiering at Galerie Pien Rademakers, Prinsengracht 570, Amsterdam, May 24 - June 29, 2014. Also appearing at the KunstRAI Art Fair in Amsterdam, June 4-9, 2014. For more about this exhibition, click here. tags: Image-ArtQuandra Loka
The 2018 Image-Art Calendar poster: The Art of Adi Da Samraj length: 03:45 date added: December 9, 2017 language: English views: 2107; views this month: 34; views this week: 9 2018 marks the tenth consecutive year Da Plastique has produced an Image-Art calendar. We are thrilled to announce that the 2018 Transcendental Realism calendar is now back from the printer and available for purchase!
In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Bhagavan Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi, the 2018 Image-Art calendar features Transcendental Drawings that Adi Da created between 1967 and 1982. All quotations in this calendar are drawn from Adi Da's previously unpublished early journal writings from 1970-1971.
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