This past Saturday the Colly Soleri Music Center hosted an evening of ballet, as well as the beautiful voices of Guillermo Ontiveros and Adam Marr. Also, by popular demand, Jim Covarrubias returned and painted a piece on the stage before our eyes. Two of his paintings were raffled to lucky audience members.
[photo & text: Sue]
Terpsicore Dance Company opened with several pieces. The highlight of the evening was a delightful performance by the West Valley Conservatory of Ballet, "Peter and the Wolf", arranged by Stephanie Savage. Here is the duck swimming in a pond of very young dancers.
[photo & text: Sue]
The cat is stalking the duck and the bird. In the background is the grandfather, who is telling the story, and on the pedestal we can see Peter, warning duck and bird.
[photo & text: Sue]
And a thoroughly menacing wolf enters the scene ...
[photo & text: Sue]
A terrific bird and cat, beautifully executed performances.
[photo & text: Sue]
Everyone is listening, the wolf swallowed the poor duck whole? In the back of the group we can see the hunters, who were very funny and very good in their roles. The whole performance was gorgeous, very well danced, lighthearted, with skill and precision, beautiful costumes. Congratulations, very, very well done!
[photo & text: Sue]
Posted by sue on May 16, 2012 8:52:48 AM MST
Ernest Callenbach died just a few days ago at age 82. He was an admirer of Paolo Soleri and of Arcosanti. He died April 16. of cancer at his home in Berkeley CA. I first met him back in 1981 when he and I were paired in a keynote dialogue at a statewide conference of gifted high school students from throughout California. He spoke of the ideas underlying his famous book, Ecotopia, I of the ideas underlying our famous project Arcosanti. His book Ecotopia was written in 1975.
This past August we were connected again by Richard Register at the 9th Ecocoties World Congress in Montreal. Here's his last bit of writing, something that was found on his computer after his recent death.
Jeff
[image: web & text: Jeff Stein]
Posted by sue on May 14, 2012 9:47:13 AM MST
A notice from Paolo Soleri’s editor, Lissa McCullough: Presenting Soleri’s ideas on arcology and Lean Linear City to a delegation of Chinese officials last Saturday was exciting. The all-day conference “Green Development and Innovation,” organized by Dr. John Cobb and hosted by the Center for Process Studies in Claremont, California, was attended by more than a dozen officials and their associates, mostly professors of philosophy, ecology, and technology in the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (group photo at right). These are influential thinkers, policy-makers, and educators for China's future development, visiting the U.S. for ten days of academic-cultural enrichment.
This stimulating conference on green innovation featured talks on small-scale organic agriculture, retrofitting buildings for energy conservation, and my presentation on Soleri, which related the statistics of rapid Chinese urbanization to the promise of arcology and Lean Linear City for development in China. For visuals I projected a short video and selected graphics from Lean Linear City: Arterial Arcology (Cosanti Press, 2012). The audience was visibly enthusiastic about the Lean Linear concept, which one of the delegates described as "inspiring and creative." The best part was when the discussion of Lean Linear turned into a buzzing confusion, no longer translatable as people were excitedly talking all at once!
[photo & text: Lissa McCullough]
Posted by sue on May 11, 2012 11:12:11 AM MST
"The Super Moon on May 5th starting it's path in the sky over the pylons at the Soleri Bridge and Plaza." This terrific photo came in from Phoenix photographer Dennis Scully. THANK YOU!
[image: Dennis Scully & text: Aimee Madsen, Sue]
Posted by sue on May 9, 2012 9:16:53 AM MST
Cosanti Foundation President Jeff Stein welcomed a group of architects, planners and designers from Los Angeles. This is the firm of GREGG MAEDO + ASSOCIATES, INC., Architecture - Planning. The group had an extended tour at Cosanti on Thursday and a meeting with Paolo Soleri, who also signed their books.
[photo & text: Sue]
Jeff Stein took the group on a thorough tour of Arcosanti. This included a visit to the Soleri Archives where they had an introduction to the general work of the archives and viewed one of Paolo Soleri's famous scrolls drawings. They also had a glimpse of one of the Soleri sketchbooks.
[photo & text: Sue]
The firm of Gregg Maedo + Associates is a healthcare architecture firm that is passionate, economically responsible and committed to serving the healthcare, skilled nursing and senior living markets by collaborating with their clients to achieve superior quality and innovative designs.
[photo: Sue & text: from Gregg Maedo website]
Posted by sue on May 7, 2012 9:11:13 AM MST