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qUest wiRx


qUest wiRx

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qUest wiRx


qUest wiRx

we, as the creators, created, and creation invite you to embark on a quest, an inner journey…

awaken into your innate capacity and potentiality through your ability to respond and evolve into consciousness with sensitivity and vulnerability….

connected to the living matrix as members of the flock we focus on the process of finding the space needed so that we might connect and fly and dive with ease…

defining our Selves thru creativity we change the world…

being the change via our sensitivity and vulnerability…

allowing ourselves to be changed…

the field of knowing holding us as support like the ground, breath, air and the living matrix…

meditation is the zero point in the field where energy exchanges between subatomic particles creating the breath, the breather and breathing…

the universe as a supercharged backdrop felt as resonance… 

Creative collaborators for qUest include dancers, musicians, performance and visual artists. Our cohort includes Nina Be, Isabel Castellvi, Rob Chamberlain, Stephanie Sevilla, Glen Rumsey, Jessica Almy Pagan, Mindy Reaves, Shaleigh Comerford, Lindsey Elcessor, Catherine Howard, Stacey Kirby, Madelyn Sovern, Murielle Elizeon, Justin Tornow, COMPANY, and others.  Together we will weave a multi-media experience, creating intentional work with a shared inspiration through practices of meditation, embodiment, imagination and craftsmanship.

 

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Bio


nina be :: ma.  m.ed.  ncc  e-ryt-500  

Bio


nina be :: ma.  m.ed.  ncc  e-ryt-500  

 

bio:: The body is a calligraphic gesture of the mind."

DIRECTOR, CHOREOGRAPHER, DANCE/THEATRE MOVEMENT COACH, YOGA TEACHER, YOGA THERAPIST

Nina Be (MA, MEd, E-RYT 500, NCC) is a yoga therapist, writer/poet, choreographer, performer and restaurateur, who has been producing, teaching, choreographing and designing wellness programs internationally for over 40 years. Her professional performance and published work reflects her orientation as a creative spiritual activist, psychosomatic guide and mystic.   She has choreographed over 20 original dance theatre works and several musicals and operas.

In 1967 nina began studying ballet technique and choreography with Gene Hammett and Perry Brunson of the Ballet Russe. In 1968 she auditioned for the NC School of the Arts ballet dept and was awarded full scholarship for the high school. Upon being awarded a schoarship to the Joffrey School of Ballet, she moved to NYC and began pursuing the path of a professional ballet dancer studying with Maggie Black, Robert Joffrey, Nenette Charrisse, Bobby Blankshine and David Howard. After suffering from debilitating knee injuries, nina explored the somatic & contemplative arts more deeply in order to avoid surgery. Mentorship in the Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais and kinesthesiology formed the foundation for her Master’s degree in Performing Arts (1979), where she taught, choreographed directed and designed performance art.  Upon graduation Nina was invited to NYC to be assistant to Lee Theodore at the American Dance Machine, where she worked internationally, until Lee’s death.

Presently, nina be directs the MindBody Centering Yoga program, corporate wellness at Burt’s Bees, co-directs the volunteer program of Mindful Whole Health for hundreds if women in JOBSTART (in the N.C. State Women’s Prison System) and offers various workshops and groups for transforming trauma. nina be developed MindBody Centering Yoga to provide dynamic creative movement  and present moment awareness techniques for trauma-sensitive individuals, families, groups, universities and corporations. Her successful RYT 200/300/500-hour Yoga Alliance certification programs of MindBody Centering Yoga, specializing in trauma-sensitive techniques, are offered across the United States . 

As the founder of LiveGlobally, her vision of quelling children’s global poverty through the practice of mindful yoga in community has begun by supporting the building of a school in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, for the Ingrid Children Education Centre. and supports at-risk adolescents

In order to satisfy her big curiosity about the world, nina has traveled to 38 of the 50 United States and 19 countries.  She plans on experiencing it all!

artist statement::

“It takes me about 10 years to produce a complete work. Every particle of thought, physical experience and relationship rolls over and into my livingness…like some lucid dream, where memories pose as vivd flashbacks not to be separated from, but to be woven into the intelligence of being.”

“The point for me is to participate as a crucial aspect of the living matrix; thats my role as an artist/co-creator. Its not random. Its my job/purpose; to pay attention to all of it…and respond in some interested way….or be able to rest into, find a place for this fractal, (understood as a part of me), and express from that unique vantage point, which will be spiraled into its next mutation instantaneously. I call this the practice of peaceful abiding.”

“My personal time is spent in much quiet so as to settle into some kind of less discordant relationship with my Self. The judgments and social constructs of violence, scarcity and competition must be transmuted in order to reach the open canvas. What is here? As stagnant fragments of relationship with my Self can release, some space for vulnerability allows questioning, dismantling, equanimity.”

“Once there is some semblance of a resolved Self, relationships are sought out for dialoguing around particular themes of inquiry. These explorations look at the conditions of consciousness embodied in death, homelessness, time, seasons, Earth, trauma, madness, unbeing and Spirit as Grace.”

“Collaborations create a perfect psycho-somatic climate to propose how juxtaposition is the necessary dynamic needed to break open into revelation. The interest is in non-performative approaches to expression that embody the heart of the mind. That means the musician, sculptor, dancer, writer, mover/ breather is resolving the existential dilemma of the ego’s legitimacy as superiority. We get to be interested in getting out of the way of our own voluntary imprisoned stuckness as masters of the planet. “

“As a social choreographer its crucial for me to advocate releasing our cultural behaviors and values that create the social constructs of oppression, violating the plethora of species with which we share the Earth and cosmos. This is my highest value as a human being.”

“Next work is to be mounted in 2020.”

repetoire::

NINA BE

ballet/ jazz/creative movement/performance art::

2010-present global breath studio

2002-2006  New Orleans conservatory of the arts

1996-1999  tulane dance dept

1995-1997  new orleans jazz project

1986-1989  japan dansports

1985-1987  tokyo ballet company

1980-1985  american dance machine

1983-1985  steps-nyc

1983-1985  harkness house 

-1980  nyc public schools-the harlem creative arts project

suny university 

choreography/performance lab:

2013-present  Quest multi-media project-power plant gallery/duke

2002-2006  New Orleans Conservatory of the Arts-Performing Arts director/choreography/movement specialist

1995-1999  Loyola University- Co-Director MFA Opera Department

administration of funding fellowships/grants:

2013-2017 global breath studio/foundation

1985-2009  Body Center

1994-1996  contemporary arts center-regional arts project

1993/1996  inter-media arts/mcknight fellowship




 
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Collaborators


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Nina Be

Nina Be is an artist and performer, writer/poet, somatic psychologist, spiritual activist, yoga therapist, restaurateur, who has been mentoring, teaching, choreographing and designing wellness programs internationally for over 40 years. Working as an assistant to Lee Theodore in the early 80’s created continued support for nina’s ongoing curiosity to explore the interiors of being alive through explorative collaborations with sculptors, musicians, actors, singers internationally.  Such meanderings from Tokyo, Kyoto to New Orleans landed her into co-creating the Body Center in Raleigh and Global Breath Studio, a community creation space in downtown Durham. Upon arriving in NC from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, several series of multi-media performances ‘process’ works resulted; Thresholds and the Vestigium Series. Ongoing weekly class collaborations at Global Breath offers continuous practice. This body of local work collaborations spans a breadth of 5 years, wherein invested inhabitance of process hopes for much rich sharing with the public in various locations.


Sarah Borst

Sarah Elizabeth Borst is an internationally exhibited artist from Davidson, North Carolina working in the mediums of photography, film, installation and performance art.  She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design, and is now a Master of Fine Arts Candidate in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University with an expected graduation date of May 2017.  In addition to her credits as an artist, she is the Curator for the Provost’s Hall Gallery at Duke University working under the Provost, Sally Kornbluth as well as Director of the Center for Documentary Studies Wesley Hogan.  She is also an editorial assistant for Aint-Bad Magazine, an independent publisher of new photographic art. 

Sarah is deeply concerned with the collective female experience, acknowledging that pain and anguish remain perpetuated as our bodies continue to be policed and sexualized.  While her work recognizes that contemporary feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men, it calls us to consider the suffering that exists beneath the activism, never undermining the communal sadness, ache and distress of the female experience.  Being a woman in the world right now is hard as hell and that struggle should never be trivialized. For Sarah, art making is an approach to process, understand, explore and challenge questions about America and the social gallery we have oh, so carefully and comfortably constructed for ourselves. 



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Isabel Castellvi

Isabel Castellvi is a versatile musician, sound healer, yogi, lover of plants, herbal medicine and ayurveda, and student of life.  Isabel share’s music with audiences all over the world and has performed, recorded and taught throughout North America, Europe, Asia, South and Central America and the Middle East.  Inspired and informed by her travels and the chance to connect with beings around the globe through music Isabel aspires to share this insight of oneness.  The experience of being able to play music for and with others, often without sharing a spoken language and cultural identity, has been deeply insightful about the power of sound energy speak to all of us, to open our hearts and unite us both in our bodies and in formless space.  

Isabel has led workshops on nada yoga, toning/chanting and various forms of sound healing in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, India and Nicaragua alongside masterful yoga teachers.  In February 2015 she co-led a week long yogascape retreat with yoga teacher Dana Rizer in Nicaragua.  There she was able to play live music for two classes each day, and in the evenings led meditations, sound healing workshops, chakra chanting and walking meditations on the beach.  In the summer of 2014 season she was invited to be the Bard, musician in residence The Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY.  There she had a chance to exchange with the community, compose new music, perform and teach workshops on creative improvisation, sound healing & nada yoga.  



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Catherine J Howard

Catherine is a painter, traveler, writer, marketing consultant, yogini, teacher, entrepreneur, activist, and baby-snuggling aficionado based in Durham, North Carolina. For over ten years, she has voraciously researched behavioral economics, art-activism, yoga therapy, Thai yoga, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, neuroscience, embryology, and energetic anatomy to develop a holistic understanding of how the body impacts and guides our creative process. Assisting people with their healing so that they can become buoyant, powerful, creative beings fills her heart. 


Mindy Reaves

Raleigh Massage Therapist Mindy Reaves, LMBT 7681, has been practicing massage professionally since 2007. She has a passion for helping others reach a higher potential and a natural ability for connecting with her clients. After graduating from East Carolina University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, she went on to pursue her licensure at The Healing Arts & Massage School in Raleigh where she discovered her natural ability for the healing arts.

Mindy has had a rich personal yoga practice since 2003 and she completed her RYT-200 training in 2012. She uses her depth of anatomical knowledge as a bodyworker and creativity as a lifelong dancer to develop safe, effective and fun yoga classes for her beginning and intermediate students. All levels can benefit from her stretch and restore classes which will leave you feeling refreshed and balanced.

Mindy is a North Carolina native. She grew up near Pinehurst, NC and now lives in Raleigh with her husband, Joey and her cat, Hermes. She enjoys yoga, meditative walks through the woods, new and delicious foods, and is an avid hula hoop dancer.


Lindsey Elcessor

Lindsey Elcessor is an artist, musician, and herbal enthusiast.  A recent resident to Durham, she currently performs with local band Evil English.  Her work is inspired by esoteric philosophy, cosmology, ayurveda, alchemy, dreams, the subconscious, and magic.  She is a dedicated visual artist and introspective lyricist with a passion for self study.  Her artwork may be found online at lindseyelcessor.weebly.com or hanging at places like Arcana (through august) and Joe Van gogh (starting in september).