creativity, gardening and the invisible thread... Kathryn Oliver 2024-10-20 | creativity, gardening and the invisible thread...
Autumn Moon Dreams Kathryn Oliver 2024-10-19 | Join us as we journey through a multi-layered tapestry of myth, music and dance representing the cycles of the moon and the Autumn season. We will explore how these patterns of change and letting go impact our lives. www.mythichearttheatre.com“Autumn Moon Dreams” is performed by Kristi Williamson. Film and masks are created by artistic director Kathryn Oliver. The show also features the photographs of Joyce Tenneson as well as the photomontage of Joan Proudman.
Mythic Heart Theatre - Under The Rose Moon Kathryn Oliver 2024-05-14 | Mythic Heart Theatre - Performance Artist Kristi Williamson and Visual Artist Kathryn OliverPresent - Under The Rose Moon more info: www.mythichearttheatre.comSponsored by Harbor Square Gallery in Camden and Patrisha McLean CEO Finding Our VoicesA unique performance/arts experience In celebration of the summer solstice. Join us as we explore the season's rhythm of outward expression and inward calling through music, dance, mystical poetry and art!July (Two Weekends!) Fri 12th, Sat 13th: 7pm & Sun 14th (Matinee) 4pmFri 19th, Sat 20th: 7 pm & Sun 21st (Matinee) 4pmLocation: Red Door Barn 46 John Street Camden MainePrice: $25Doors open 20 minutes before each performance
Mythic Heart Theatre Spring Awake! Williamson/Oliver Kathryn Oliver 2024-03-09 | Mythic Heart Theatre (Kristi Williamson and Kathryn Oliver) presents "Spring Awake!"Saturday March 23rd - 6 pm Sunday (matinee) March 24th - 3pmFriday March 29th - 6pmSaturday March 30th - 6pm"Spring Awake!" Features Kristi Williamson, Masks by Kathryn Oliver, Musical accompaniment by Lisa Diane, and Special Guest Josiah Glover. Dive into a magical experience of art, myth, dance, and music, with photography by Joyce Tenneson, a tale by Martin Shaw, and Kathryn Oliver's painting exhibit "The Wild Rose" inspired by the Scottish Ballad: Tamlin.Each performance has limited seating. Tickets $25 - reserve your seat through venmo: @Kathryn-Oliver-32 or email through our contact form and specify the date you’d like to attend.
Summer Rose Moon by Mythic Heart Theatre Kathryn Oliver 2023-06-28 | Performance artist Kristi Williamson and visual artist Kathryn Oliver are pairing up for a unique and inspirational, ‘heart-opening’ arts experience! Location: Red Door Barn, 46 John Street, Camden, MaineTime: 7pmSuggested Donation: $20-$30LIMITED SEATING(pre buy a ticket and save your spot through Venmo: Kathryn-Oliver-32)Join us for an offering of song, dance, and mystical poetry by Kristi, interwoven into an installation of large scale paintings from Kathryn’s series, "Where Are You Going, Soul?”*Moving between performance and an invitation for audience participation.The Rose Full Moon occurs during solstice season reflecting a rosy hue due to its close proximity to the earth. It coincides with the sweetness of wild strawberries, perfume of roses and signifies a gathering of fruit, vitality of blossom and ripening of spirit.After the ceremony, we will gather for conversation and enjoy rose petal garden tea. "Hand-made prayer altars" from Kathryn’s paintings and cards by Joan Proudman Art will be available for sale.
Honey In The Heart Kathryn Oliver Kristi Williamson trailer Kathryn Oliver 2022-10-14 | kathrynoliverandkristiwilliamsoncollaborations.comAbout Honey In The Heart Our story begins as an invocation to flee a broken, disenchanted world, a world that has lost its sacredness and meaning. We venture not to faraway lands but rather deep into the intimate terrain of the human heart.Like a labyrinth with unexpected twists and turns, the journey unfolds in surprising ways. We confront strange, dream-like characters and tricksters all of whom beckon us like ‘breadcrumbs on the path’ to go deep into the realms of imaginal thinking and intuitive perceptions. It is here where illusions are challenged and opportunities for participation and transformation arise, making this personal tale a universal one as well, a ‘Honey-making’ journey into the depths of the Human Heart.Kristi Williamson performs this one-woman-show drawing inspiration from her studies in ancient sacred dance, expressive music, mystical poetry and archetypal mask-work. Kathryn Oliver weaves the script together from beloved passages of timeless literature and mythical story, combined with her poetry films, and mask creations.
The power to love and create - Hermann Hesse Kathryn Oliver 2022-06-06 | filming and editing: Kathryn Oliverpassage: Hermann HessePassage in notebook: “The language of flowers and all things silent.” Charles Baudelaire narration: Samaneri Jayasāra - Wisdom of the Masters Links:More info: www.kathrynoliverandkristiwilliamsoncollaborations.comSamaneri Jayasāra - Wisdom of the Masters: youtube.com/c/SamaneriJayasaraTo the few things I had learned so far on the way to my true aim in life, this new thing was now added: A surrendering to nature’s irrational forms produces in us a feeling of inner harmony with the will that gave rise to these forms. We soon feel the temptation of thinking of them as being our own moods, our own creations and see the boundaries separating us from Nature begin to quiver and dissolve. We become acquainted with that state of mind in which we are unable to decide whether the images on our retina are the result of external impressions or come from within. In no other way than through this practice do we discover so simply and easily how very creative we are. How much our soul always participates in the perpetual creation of the world. For it is the same indivisible divinity that is active through us and in Nature. Yes, every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create. - Hermann Hesse, Damian
There is a bird on this body tree poem by Kabir, paintings by Kathryn Oliver Kathryn Oliver 2022-05-26 | kathrynoliverandkristiwilliamsoncollaborations.comA collage of my paintings set to poetry and music. There is a bird on this body treeThat dances in the ecstasy of life.No one knows where it is,And who could ever knowWhat its music means?It nests where branches cast deep shadow;It comes in the dusk and flies away at dawnAnd never says a word of what it intends.No one can tell me anythingAbout this bird that sings in my blood.It isn’t colored or colorless;It doesn’t have a form, or outline;It sits always in the shadow of love.It lives within the Unreachable, the Boundless, the EternalAnd no one can tell when it comes or when it goes.Kabir says, “Fellow seeker,The mystery of this birdIs marvelous and profound.Be wise; struggle to knowWhere this bird comes to rest.”- 15c mystic poet and saint KabirNarrated by Samaneri Jayasāra - Wisdom of the Masters: youtube.com/c/SamaneriJayasara
The Way It Is - William Stafford Kathryn Oliver 2022-03-02 | a short film by Kathryn Olivermore info: kathrynoliverandkristiwilliamsoncollaborations.compoem: The Way It Is by William StaffordThere’s a thread you follow. It goes amongthings that change. But it doesn’t change.People wonder about what you are pursuing.You have to explain about the thread.But it is hard for others to see.While you hold it you can’t get lost.Tragedies happen; people get hurtor die; and you suffer and get old.Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.You don’t ever let go of the thread.
Honey In The Heart - Dont Go Back To Sleep and Always we are led back to the Heart Kathryn Oliver 2022-02-03 | For more info: kathrynoliverandkristiwilliamsoncollaborations.comTo support this project: gofund.me/a5d03bdd
Winter Solstice Prayer with Kristi Williamson Kathryn Oliver 2021-12-21 | A Winter Solstice prayer sung by Kristi Williamson.For more info on our work together please visit: kathrynoliverandkristiwilliamsoncollaborations.com
Honey In The Heart Kathryn Oliver 2021-06-21 | Planting Summer Solstice Seeds for a multi-media production this November. Honey in The Heart by Kathryn Oliver and Kristi Williamson. Also featuring the wonderful artwork of seven different visual artists ... more soon :)Intro photomontage by Joan Proudman.
The Earth Maiden Kathryn Oliver 2021-04-08 | Music from the Earth Maiden a performance collaboration by Kathryn Oliver and Kristi Williamson. Music arranged and sung by Kristi Williamson and features some of the children performers singing as well. We were joined by local multi- generational performers, dancers, singers, musicians and artists.
The Way It Is William Stafford Kathryn Oliver 2021-03-12 | www.kathrynoliver.comThere’s a thread you follow. It goes amongthings that change. But it doesn’t change.People wonder about what you are pursuing.You have to explain about the thread.But it is hard for others to see.While you hold it you can’t get lost.Tragedies happen; people get hurtor die; and you suffer and get old.Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.Don’t ever let go of the thread. - William Stafford
Touch A Solstice Story by Kathryn Oliver Kathryn Oliver 2020-12-21 | On this returning of the light. I'd like to invite you on a journey.(It's part dream...part not). It begins on the summer solstice, in fields overflowing with purple clover. And despite the drought, the ground is lush and covered with swallowtail butterflies. We then travel roundabout, from my backyard garden, where roses bloom, to Fiorenze’s storehouses of marbled gods and a pink-robed angel.Finally:ice crystal trees, cardinals singing,and winter solstice arrives.And the mysterious …Yes. www.kathrynoliver.com
Where are you going soul? by Kathryn Oliver Kathryn Oliver 2020-11-12 | WHERE ARE YOU GOING SOUL?Where will your feet take you?Where will your mind lead you?Where will your tears flow?Where will your heart pull you?Where will your body agree to go? What are you willing to embrace?… And do you feel the apprehension that murmurs in your chest like a fluttering bird, the uncertainty… that makes you weak in the knees? And will you… go anyway? www.kathrynoliver.com
Vale of Soul-making inspired by words by John Keats and Henry Miller Kathryn Oliver 2020-10-08 | www.kathrynoliver.comA short film weaving together an adaptation by the writer Henry Miller and an excerpt from a letter by the poet John Keats with music by Olafur Arnalds."Always …we are led back to the heart. It is here Where everything is determined. We must organize around the heart Or …life will fall apart.The heart: true theater of operation.What happens outside in the worldis only the echo of the passion play which goes on in the soul of every individual.The only true revolutionaries …are the inspirers and the activators.So the question is …Where do you stand in relation to life?Rather, how do you affect life itself?Do you impose yourself upon life?Or do you open yourself up to life?Do you hunger for life?Do you exalt life?Those who have most influenced the world did not remove themselves from the world, nor did they deny life.Instead, they lifted themselves out of the vicious circle.They affirmed life.-- adapted from Henry Miller, Remember to remember"Call the world, if you pleaseThe Vale of Soul-makingAnd then you will know the meaning of the world." -- John Keats, from a letter written to Georgiana Keats, 1819
Bewildered By Beauty Kathryn Oliver 2020-09-11 | kathrynoliverandkristiwilliamsoncollaborations.comMy friend and I were on a walk and she asked me, “Where do you get ideas for paintings from?”I hope you enjoy.Bewildered By Beauty, Sept. 2020
Blues To Pinks Kathryn Oliver 2020-08-31 | Blues To Pink'sPaintings by Kathryn Oliverwww.kathrynoliver.comMusic: Yiruma "When The Love Falls"
I go down to the shore - Mary Oliver Kathryn Oliver 2020-08-08 | www.kathrynoliver.comI go down to the shore in the morningand depending on the hour the wavesare rolling in or moving out,and I say, oh, I am miserable,what shall—what should I do? And the sea saysin its lovely voice:Excuse me, I have work to do. -- Mary Oliver
If The Lost Word Is Lost ... TS Eliot Kathryn Oliver 2020-07-21 | If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unheard;Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and for the world;And the light shone in darkness andAgainst the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the centre of the silent Word.TS Eliot excerpt from his poem Ash Wednesday
Come, Lets Speak Of Our Souls RUMI Kathryn Oliver 2020-06-20 | Come, Let's Speak Of Our Souls poem by Rumiwww.kathrynoliver.com
Rainer Maria Rilke Letters To A Young Poet Kathryn Oliver 2020-06-20 | Rainer Maria Rilke Letters To A Young Poetfilm by Kathryn Oliver www.kathrynoliver.com"Almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living. Because we are alone with the alien thing that has entered into our self; because everything intimate and accustomed is for an instant taken away; because we stand in the middle of a transition where we cannot remain standing. For this reason the sadness too passes: the new thing in us, the added thing, has entered into our heart, has gone into its inmost chamber and is not even there any more, — is already in our blood. And we do not learn what it was. We could easily be made to believe that nothing has happened, and yet we have changed, as a house changes into which a guest has entered.We cannot say who has come, perhaps we shall never know, but many signs indicate that the future enters into us in this way in order to transform itself in us long before it happens."
... Pedicel Kathryn Oliver 2020-05-19 | film by Kathryn Oliver Poem: … Pedicel composed and read by Catherine PickstockThis reverberationPerplex lightLands glass- wise On a vertical.Did you rush whispering, Just now?Blown-through Fast and thorough.You are not a pedicel I see,But she who catches meIn-twirls spirlingAnd then betimesRecedes, reclusive-wise,A smallnessAnswering the Land’s widthIn your exacting billowWithout holding on.
Wild Things Kathryn Oliver 2020-04-18 | melody and song by Kristi Williamsonpoem and filming by Kathryn Olivermore info: www.kathrynoliver.comWild things in forest deep dance the nightdreamy sleepFrom my windowall I seewild forest beckon meSun and moon, sky and stars the earth and me below — Reflect a pattern true of words and deeds I sowSweet apple ripens crooked trees falling to the earthBursting from in a star so bright seeds of black black of nightIf you go to garden green take me toflowers trueBraid a crownof earth and sky — so blueWhen sorrows flood my path my eyes weave me a pair of wingsWhen I lose my way I cry returning song within Like a tree all alone grows leavesthat fly
9th Duino Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke Kathryn Oliver 2020-03-12 | kathrynoliverandkristiwilliamsoncollaborations.com9th Duino Elegy by Rainer Maria RilkeWhy—when we might have been laurel trees,a little darker than all the other greenery,with tiny curves at the edge of every leaf(like the smiles of a wind)—why, then,did we have to be made human, so thatdenying our destiny, we still long for it?Certainly not because happiness really exists,that quick gain of an approaching loss.Not to experience wonder or to exercise the heart.The laurel tree could have done all that.But because just being here matters, becausethe things of this world, these passing things,seem to need us, to put themselves in our caresomehow. Us, the most passing of all.Once for each, just once. Once and no more.And for us too, once. Never again. And yetit seems that this—to have once existed,even if only once, to have been a partof this earth—can never be taken back.And so we keep going, trying to achieve it,trying to hold it in our simple hands,our already crowded eyes, our dumbfounded hearts.Trying to become it. And yet who do we planto give it to? True, we'd rather keep it allourselves, forever. But into that other statewhat can be taken across? Not the ability to see,which we learn here so slowly, and not anythingthat's happened here. None of it. And so, before everything else,the weariness. The long business of love.Only the completely indescribable things.For the traveler doesn't bring backfrom the mountainside to the valleya handful of earth, which would explain nothingto anyone, but rather some acquired word, pure,a blue and yellow gentian. And are we here,perhaps, merely to say: house, bridge, fountain,gate, jar, fruit tree, window—at most,pillar, tower? But to say them, you understand—to say them in such a way that even the thingsthemselves never hoped to exist so intensely.Isn't the sly earth's secret purpose,when it urges two lovers on, that all of creationshould share in their shudder of ecstasy?A doorsill: the simple way two loverswill wear down the sill of their door a little—they too, besides those who came beforeand those who will come after . . . gently.Here is the time for what you can say,this is its country. Speak and acknowledge.More than ever things are falling away—the things that we live with—and what is replacing themis an urge without image. An urge whose crustswill crumble as soon as it grows too largeand tries to get out. Between the hammerblowsour heart survives—just as the tongue, evenbetween the teeth, still manages to praise.Praise, but tell the angel about the world,not the indescribable. You can't impress himwith your lofty feelings; in the universe,where he feels with far greater feeling, you'rejust a beginner. So show him some simple thing,something that's fashioned from generation to generationuntil it becomes really ours, and lives near our hand,and in our eyes. Tell him about the things.He'll stand there amazed --the way you stoodbeside the rope-maker in Rome or the potter on the Nile.Show him how happy a thing can be, how innocentand ours, how even the groan of sorrow decidesto become pure form... escaping to the beyond,ecstatic, out of the violin. And these things,that live only in passing, they understandthat you praise them. Fleeting, they look to us,the most fleeting, for help. They hope that withinour invisible hearts we will change them entirely into—oh endlessly—into us! Whoever we finally are.Earth, isn't this what you want, to rise up in usinvisible? Isn't it your dream to be somedayinvisible? Earth! Invisible! If not this change,what do you ask for so urgently? Earth, loved one,I will. Believe me, you don't need any moreof your springtimes to win me: oneis already more than my blood can take.For as long as I can remember, I've been yourscompletely.
You Who Never Arrived - Rainer Maria Rilke Kathryn Oliver 2020-01-18 | "You Who Never Arrived" poem by Rainer Maria RilkeYouwho never arrived in my armsBelovedwho were lost from the start.I don't even know what songs would please you.I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment.All the immense images in methe far-off but deeply-felt --landscape,cities, towers, and bridges.The unsuspectedturns in the path.And those powerful lands that were once pulsing with the life of the gods.All rise within me to mean,You --who forever elude me.You, Beloved, who are allthe gardens I have ever gazed at,longing. An open window in a country houseand you almost stepped outpensive, to meet me.Streets that I chanced uponyou had just walked down them and vanished.Who knows?perhaps the same bird echoedthrough both of usyesterday, separate, in the evening ...Filming and narration by Kathryn Oliverwww.kathrynoliver.com
The Sacred Garden: art, music and poetry Kathryn Oliver 2020-01-07 | Paintings by Kathryn Oliver: The Sacred Garden 1/6/20. Performance by Alyssa Anderson and Kristi Williamson.
A short film of grace Kathryn Oliver 2019-12-24 | A short film of grace by Kathryn OliverNotes: experiments in 'weaving together' poetry, images, film, music and narrationWritings:Anecdotes Of Destiny - General Lowenheilm's speech, Isak Dineson, ' Babbette's Feast'A Rushed Account Of The Dew - Alice OswaldFilming and editing by Kathryn OliverNarration and writing selections by Catherine Pickstock“Man, my friends, is frail and foolish. We have all of us been told that grace is to be found in the universe. But in our human foolishness and short-sightedness we imagine divine grace to be finite. For this reason we tremble…We tremble before making our choice in life, and after having made it again tremble in fear of having chosen wrong.But the moment comes when our eyes are opened, and we see and realize that grace is infinite. Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude. …That which we have chosen is given us, and that which we have refused is, also and at the same time, granted us.That which we have rejected is poured upon us abundantly. For mercy and truth have met together, and righteousness and bliss have kissed one another.”— General Loewenhielm’s speech from Babette’s FeastI who can blinkto break the spell of daylightand what a sliding screen between worlds is a blinkI who can hear the last three seconds in my headbut the present is beyond melisten in this tiny moment of reflexion I want to work out what it’s like to descend out of the dawn’s mind and find a leaf and fasten the known to the unknown with a liquid cufflink and then unfasten to be brief to be almost actual oh pristine exampleof claiming a place on the earthonly to cancel -- 'A Rushed Account Of The Dew' Alice Oswald from Falling awakemore info: www.kathrynoliver.com
A Short Story Of Falling, Alice Oswald Kathryn Oliver 2019-12-06 | filming and editing by Kathryn Olivernarration by Catherine Pickstockmusic by Zbigniew PreisnerA Short Story of Falling by Alice OswaldIt is the story of the falling rainto turn into a leaf and fall againit is the secret of a summer showerto steal the light and hide it in a flowerand every flower a tiny tributarythat from the ground flows green and momentaryis one of water’s wishes and this talehangs in a seed-head smaller than my thumbnailif only I a passerby could passas clear as water through a plume of grassto find the sunlight hidden at the tipturning to seed a kind of lifting rain dripthen I might know like water how to balancethe weight of hope against the light of patiencewater which is so raw so earthy-strongand lurks in cast-iron tanks and leaks alongdrawn under gravity towards my tongueto cool and fill the pipe-work of this songwhich is the story of the falling rainthat rises to the light and falls again
moment of plenitude Kathryn Oliver 2019-11-11 | "moment of plenitude"words by Catherine Pickstock filming and editing by Kathryn Olivermusic by Qualitati Umaneexcerpt used from interview by David Cayley with Catherine Pickstock and John Milbank.black and white photography by Ralph Hassenpflugpaintings by Giotto, Blake, Raphael, Chagallmore info: www.kathrynoliver.com
Something that arrives Kathryn Oliver 2019-10-07 | film and editing: Kathryn Oliverwords: Catherine Pickstock music: Zbignew Preisneran excerpt from a conversation between Catherine Pickstock, John Milbank and David Cayley: youtube.com/watch?v=vMn6q1z7Oxk&t=1117s
I Call It Meaning Kathryn Oliver 2019-05-22 | "I Call It Meaning" is a short film weaving together poetry (Rainer Maria Rilke), ancient wisdom (Tao Te Ching) and music (listed in the credits) with filmed images from my home garden and the natural wild surroundings of beautiful midcoast Maine.There is something formless yet completeThat existed before heaven and earth.How still. How empty.Dependent on nothing, unchanging.All pervading. Unfailing.One may think of it as the Mother of all things under Heaven.I do not know its nameBut I call it Meaning --Lao-tzu, Tao Te ChingEarth, isn’t this what you want? To arise in us, invisible?Is it not your dream, to enter us so whollythere’s nothing left outside us to see?What, if not transformation,is your deepest purpose? Earth, my love,I want it too. Believe me,no more of your springtimes are neededto win me over – even ONE floweris More than enough. Before I was namedI belonged to you. I see no other lawbut yours and know I can trustthe death you will bring. Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futuregrows any smaller … Superabundant beingwells up in my heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke, From the Ninth Duino ElegyNarration: Ralph Hassenpflug ralphhassenpflug.comBea Gonzalez http://www.sophiacycles.comFor more info: Kathrynoliver.com
Where shall wisdom be found? Kathryn Oliver 2019-03-21 | But where shall wisdom be found?And where is the place of understanding?Man does not know its worth,and it is not found in the land of the living.The deep says, 'It is not in me,'and the sea says, 'It is not with me.'From where, then, does wisdom come?And where is the place of understanding? - Book of Job________________________________________At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartetsmore info: www.kathrynoliver.comfilm & editing by Kathryn OliverSound Design by Marianna Filippi, mariannafilippi.comNarration by Bea Gonzalez, sophiacycles.comDancer: Shana Bloomstein
Come, Lets Speak Of Our Souls Kathryn Oliver 2018-09-20 | Come, Let’s Speak Of Our Souls as we enter Autumn and the twilight of the year. A time of transition and increasing darkness is at hand and we turn away from the outside noise and explore our dreams and myths. Filming & editing by Kathryn OliverNarration By Bea GonzalezPoem by RumiMusic by Arvo Part My new short film “Come, Let’s Speak Of Our Souls” with a poem by the 13th c Sufi mystic, Rumi.COME LET'S SPEAKof our soulslet's even hide fromour ears and eyeslike a rose gardenalways keep a smilelike imaginationtalk without a soundlike the spiritreigning the worldtelling the secretsuttering no wordlet's get away fromall the clever humanswho put words in our mouthlet's only say what our hearts desireeven our hands and feetsense every inner movelet's keep silencebut make our hearts movethe mystery of destinyknows the life ofspeck after speck of dustlet's tell our story as a particle of dust~ RUMI
Mythic Heart Theatre Kristi Williamson and Kathryn Oliver Kathryn Oliver 2018-08-23 | A compilation of performances over the years. featuring performance artist Kristi Williamson and visual artist Kathryn Oliver. Guest artists: Molly and Elsie Gawler, Shana Bloodstain, David Troupe and Hanna DeHoff
Serpent Brother by Kathryn Oliver Kathryn Oliver 2018-03-09 | Once upon a time there was an unhappy kingdom ... And so begins the tale of Serpent Brother. Through her paintings and story, Kathryn Oliver explores a hidden unity, asking the questions: How are we ruled by what we deny? What happens when aspects we suppress come back with destructive force?The story comes full circle with the realization that everything carries in itself the seed of its opposite. Inspired by the traditional folktale The Lindworm.Links: www.kathrynoliver.com
Serpent Brother trailer Kathryn Oliver 2018-03-06 | Paintings and story by Kathryn Oliver"Once upon a time there was an unhappy Kingdom ..." and so begins this timeless tale of longing, temptation, denial and consequences. Links: www.kathrynoliverart.comwww.patreon.com/KathrynOliver
“I am asking you to study the dark” Kathryn Oliver 2018-01-31 | www.kathrynoliverart.comI AM ASKING YOU TO STUDY THE DARKdirection, editing & filmingby Kathryn Oliver still images and narration by Ralph Hassenpflugwords by Anne Carson, Plainwater essays and poetrymusic byArvo Paert, my heart's in the highlands
A Dream Kathryn Oliver 2018-01-24 | In this film I weave together fragments of prose by William Blake, August Strindberg and James Joyce.for more info: www.kathrynoliverart.com
something inside the moth is made of fire Kathryn Oliver 2017-11-13 | Direction, Filming & Photography by Kathryn Oliver www.kathrynoliverart.comNarration & PerformanceRalph HassenpflugDancersShana Bloomstein, Hanna De Hoff & Kristi Williamson (WAXWINGS)Words:Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī "Something inside the moth is made of fire" Charles Beaudelaire " Hymn to Beauty"Bhagavad Gita "The Cosmic Vision"William Blake "Of Heaven and Hell" Music:Orson Wells "War Of The Worlds"Led Zeppelin "Lemon Song"Hildegard Von Bingen "Voices of Angels"Schubert "An Die Musik" (poem by Von Shober)Edward Artemiev "Meditation"Andres de Haan "Earthquake"Klaus Schulze "The Cello"Footage of WAX WINGS by David Wright, 2017Footage of WAX WINGS by Geoff Parker, 2017www.waxwingstheater.comAdditional images:William Blake "Death of the Strong Wicked Man"The Balck Madonna of Czestochowa Monastery, PolandVishnu (Krishna w/ a golden city at his throat), 19c Jaipur, IndiaAtom Bomb - HiroshimaSpiral Galaxy, Messier 101
Fox Woman Dreaming Martin Shaw Kathryn Oliver 2017-11-08 | Story "Fox Woman Dreaming"by Martin Shaw © 2016, SCATTERLINGS: Getting Claimed in the Age of AmnesiaFilm by Kathryn OliverPhotography by Kathryn Oliver and Ralph Hassenpflug © 2015Narration by Ralph Hassenpflug
Henry Miller on Dostoyevsky Kathryn Oliver 2017-11-06 | "We were not meant to live by bread alone. We were meant to live by our whole being. But the nature of this being is being lost, forgotten, buried. We’ve got to recognize ourselves for what we are. And what are we but the end product of a tree that can no longer bear fruit. We’ve got to go underground, therefore, like seed, so that something new, something different, may come forth. It isn’t time that’s required, it’s a new way of looking at things. Dostoevsky, let me remind you, had amazing insight into the mind and spirit of the universe. Of putting one’s trust in the life- force itself." - Henry Miller
Wax Wings rehearsal Kathryn Oliver 2017-09-26 | Kristi, Elsie & Molly working on a song for the new show WAX WINGS. www.waxwingstheater.com
WAX WINGS by Kathryn Oliver & Kristi Williamson Kathryn Oliver 2017-09-24 | Visual artist Kathryn Oliver and performing artist Kristi Williamson’s new production "Wax Wings" is a mythical journey in dance, visual art, literature and music. The original script by Oliver weaves literary references, archetypal stories and short films with choreography, original melodies and additional poetry and musical selections by Williamson. Joining them in Wax Wings are dancers, Hanna De Hoff and Shana Bloomstein, Actor, David Troup and Musicians, Molly and Else Gawler, narrator and photographer Ralph Hassenpflug, and costume makers Robin Horty and Kristen Eckmann."Wax Wings" highlights the depth of the imagination and explores the complex shadow archetype through visual and dramatic storytelling.For more info: www.waxwingstheater.com
WAX WINGS Trailer Kathryn Oliver 2017-09-11 | Wax Wings trailer featuring dancer Shana Bloomstein, vocalist Molly Gawler and film by Kathryn Oliver.A mythical theater journey through dance, film, poetry and music.Visual artist Kathryn Oliver and performing artist Kristi Williamson are continuing their artistic journey in myth and the imagination for 2017.With timeless poetry and stories in Kathryn's short films, photographs and paintings and Kristi's choreography, dance and original melodies, "Wax Wings" highlights the profundity of the imagination and explores the complex shadow archetype through visual and dramatic storytelling.For more info: www.waxwingstheater.com
WAX WINGS by Kathryn Oliver & Kristi Williamson Kathryn Oliver 2017-08-26 | A mythical theater journey through dance, film, poetry and music.Visual artist Kathryn Oliver and performing artist Kristi Williamson are continuing their artistic journey in myth and the imagination for 2017.With timeless poetry and stories in Kathryn's short films, photographs and paintings and Kristi's choreography, dance and original melodies, "Wax Wings" highlights the profundity of the imagination and explores the complex shadow archetype through visual and dramatic storytelling.For more info: www.waxwingstheater.commusic used in trailer: ''Qualitati Umane'' by Thomas Otten
WAX WINGS PREVIEW Kathryn Oliver 2017-08-23 | WAX WINGS performance at the Camden Opera HouseFriday, Sept 29, 7 PM Saturday, Sept 30, 3 PM Sunday, Oct 1, 3 PMVisual artist Kathryn Oliver and performing artist Kristi Williamson’s new production "Wax Wings" is a mythical journey in dance, film, poetry and music. The original script by Oliver weaves literary references, archetypal stories and short films with choreography and music by Williamson. Actors, dancers, artists and musicians from Maine's midcoast area make up the cast. "Wax Wings" highlights the depth of the imagination and explores the complex shadow archetype through visual and dramatic storytelling.General Admission Tickets $20. Advance tickets available at:Zoot Coffee in Camden, Bella Books in Belfast & Grasshopper Shop in RocklandOr at the door on the day of show. For more info: www.waxwingstheater.com
Rehearsal for WAX WINGS with Kristi Williamson Kathryn Oliver 2017-08-16 | In rehearsal for WAX WINGS with Kristi as she warms up with this inspiring song by Karisha Longaker. "FatherEarthly MotherDivine Seer that seesCreate me againTake me in your handsBring out what’s inside of meGuide me in these timesWhile war is being wagedOn my familyOh make me an instrument of songThat I might learn harmonyAnchor into me the rhythm of living loveA song in which I can believeTake my handsLead me onwardMay I become the womanI am meant to beGive me strengthTo keep on walking Even when I cannot seeAnd I will carry the torch From those who have come beforeTo those who have yet to beOh, make me an instrument of songThat I might pass on harmonyAnchor into me the rhythm of living loveA song in which I can believeOh MamaAmen."ONE WOMAN"S PRAYER by Karisha Longaker. More info: www.waxwingstheater.com
WAX WINGS by Kathryn Oliver & Kristi Williamson Kathryn Oliver 2017-08-07 | Hafiz poem: Light will someday split you openwww.waxwingstheater.com
Wax Wings by Kathryn Oliver & Kristi Williamson Kathryn Oliver 2017-07-09 | A mythical theater journey through dance, film, poetry and music.Visual artist Kathryn Oliver and performing artist Kristi Williamson are continuing their artistic journey in myth and the imagination for 2017.With timeless poetry and stories in Kathryn's short films, photographs and paintings and Kristi's choreography, dance and original melodies, "Wax Wings" highlights the profundity of the imagination and explores the complex shadow archetype through visual and dramatic storytelling.For more info: www.waxwingstheater.commusic used in trailer: ''Qualitati Umane'' by Thomas Otten
