Keith Ferrone, director of the Florence Dance Company, introduces the ballet, Quattro Maggiore ("Four Seasons"): Adi Da Samraj for Vivaldi, in a packed auditorium with 1,300 guests, on January 30, 2010. Music by Vivaldi, art by Adi Da. The performance is in celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the newspaper, 'Il Resto del Carlino'.
Dr. Cristina Acidini (the Superintendent of the Authority for Cultural Heritage and State Museums in Florence, Italy) speaks about the exhibition of Adi Da Samraj's image-art at the Cenacolo di Ognissanti, February 2008.
Dr. Monica Bietti (Director of the Museum of the Medici Chapels, formerly with the Superintendency of Artistic Heritage of Bologna and Florence) speaks about the exhibition of Adi Da Samraj's image-art at the Cenacolo di Ognissanti, February 2008.
The Art of Adi Da Samraj: Cenacolo di Ognissanti poster: Daplastique speaker: Dr Christina Acidini, Dr Monica Bietti, Gary Coates, Paula Crema length: 05:41 date added: May 17, 2010 event date: 2008 language: English views: 4895; views this month: 41; views this week: 11
Interviews and overview of Adi Da's solo exhibition at the Cenacolo di Ognissanti in Florence, Italy, in 2008.
Adi Da's Image-Art poster: Chandirah length: 01:39 date added: May 12, 2010 language: English views: 2672; views this month: 19; views this week: 8
This is a showcase of a portion of Adi Da's Sacred Image-Art. Adi Da is a very prolific artist, having created well over 70,000 images. This is just a small selection.
We Are Waiting poster: frank marrero length: 03:39 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 5926; views this month: 46; views this week: 16
Darshan of Adi Da, accompanied by Adi Da's recitation of His poem, "We are waiting for something to happen to this", from Crazy Da Must Sing.
We are waiting for something to happen to this. Outside the Heart, there is only confusion and fear. All of this has become unnecessary, unequal to the Truth. Knowing this something force of our existence. We think that true appearance is in another drastic place. Seeing this dilemma and the something powerful implied somehow within it and around. There is only in the solution in the satisfactions elsewhere. Unless something happens to all of this.
Therefore, men have tussled with the two hands of adventure. Either to turn an extraordinary something here. Or else to make unusual escapes into another power, another timed, or timeless place. This is the whole account of man.
But there is a possibility between these means. There is another understanding, another adventure. If only we understand the harm in which we act. The origin of all this fearful desperation. The ordinary term in which we view the thing itself. There is a prime dilemma formed within the mind that sees the world and turns away. That turns away and turns within the life, but always turns upon the pivot of a single doubt. Within this doubt, two arms of possibility enlarge the man. One intends the world, intending magnificent life, ending in perfect happiness. One intends another life, more than life itself, beginning and ending in perfect truth. Therefore he sees all things in double terms. In opposites and contradictions, high and low. And he makes final appearance in neither kind. But forever agonizes the play of his dilemma until he dies. This is the kind he seems.
But one who understands, is free of doubt. He sees the world the same. The mind in which he sees the world is single as the Heart. He does not act upon the wheel evolving and involved, two forces on a spike. He always understands the source-ful act that turns men in and out. This is what he always does. But others act upon the thing he understands. Therefore, he is not in trouble. This is the only mood of his adventure. What should he wait to happen? Where should he go? What elsewhere? What event? All the places are a single world for him. Where others go, where others wait is all a single field of single action and no trouble. Therefore, neither high nor low, unmoved from the beginning, not turned, he stands as the Heart. This is understanding. And the image of His life.
Some informal shots of the crew and Florence Dance Company rehearsing and setting up the Image-Art of Adi Da Samraj at the 2009 Florence Dance Festival.
Florence Dance Company poster: FlorenceDanceCompany length: 03:38 date added: July 25, 2009 event date: July 16, 2009 language: English views: 4734; views this month: 36; views this week: 18
Florence Dance Company's "Quattro Maggiore" ("Four Seasons") with art by Adi Da Samraj and music by Vivaldi, from the Florence Dance Festival, 2009.
Slide show of this stunning ballet, Quattro Maggiore ("Four Seasons"): Adi Da Samraj per Vivaldi, which combines The Florence Dance Company, the Image-Art of Adi Da Samraj, and the music of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
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This is a special video tribute by pianist Albert Aprigliano, in honor of his partner's spiritual teacher/guru, Adi Da Love-Ananda Samraj. This piece by Jules Massenet is from the opera, "Thais".
The Mummery Book poster: firstroom length: 02:44 date added: February 5, 2009 language: English views: 6449; views this month: 62; views this week: 22
The true enactment of The Mummery Book by Adi Da Samraj takes place in an extraordinary theater. That extraordinary theater is the theater of our own mind — not just the thinking mind, but mind in its coincidence with all of reality, internal and external.
Kenneth Welsh: "Just as I find fresh knowledge with each re-reading of Shakespeare's plays, no matter which work, each time I return to The Mummery Book and its masterful boldness, the way its words startle and surprise and cry out from the heart of its Creator, I feel blessed by its beauty and I am moved by the truth that pulses through its every image."
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