New Zealand — February 2011
New Zealand: Journeying East with Mark Roberts Flight to Christchurch and then journeying east to Queenland and up the West Coast: February 16th to the 28th.
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A few hours of sun, watching the waves, on the rocks near Westport, New Zealand, before beginning the journey back to the U.S.A. Share with friends and family:Tweet
Read MoreShiva and Sati in the new Parabola
The Spring 2011 issue of Parabola (Vol. 36, no. 1) focuses on “Suffering” in all of its many forms, and from many different faiths. And as she has done in recent issues, Diane has retold a traditional story — this time the Hindu myth of “Shiva and Sati” (page 80) — which illuminates the theme of suffering in the context of a love story. This is not the first time Diane has explored the romance of Shiva and Sati for Parabola; long–time readers may...
Read MoreLetter from Canberra
“Leonie,” who came to the Monkey King performances in Canberra on February 2nd, writes: Dear Diane, The performance of the Monkey King: Journey to the West at the National Gallery of Australia at the Chinese New Year in February 2011 was transporting. Throughout the performance Jeff Greene’s music enhanced the story telling, deepening the audience’s experience of each character. In particular the cone xylophone made a beautiful and fluid sound. The soundscape...
Read MorePostcard from Sydney
Time to share with you a few more images from Diane’s Australian tour, this time from New South Wales. Above and below are two photos taken at the Kamaroi Rudolf Steiner Primary School in Belrose, where Diane told for the children there on February 14th. A rare Valentine’s Day treat! Among the many people Diane met down under was a student teacher and dancer named Mei, who attended Diane’s storytelling workshop in Sydney on September 12th (sponsored by the Australian...
Read MoreHome/Birth: A Poemic published
Some special news to share: Home/Birth: A Poemic, co–authored by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker (Diane’s daughter) has just been published by 1913 Press. Jennifer Block is among those who have already praised this book: Greenberg and Zucker have written an intimate, raw, beautiful book. Home/Birth lets you in on a conversation, a most important conversation, between friends, between women, between a woman and herself. It feels like the ancestor midwives are listening in, too,...
Read MorePostcard from Perth
We share with you two glimpses of Diane’s performance of the Monkey King epic at the University of Western Australia in Crawley (Perth area) from February 8th. “Watching Diane is an awe–inspiring gift. Last night I sat spell–bound for two and a half hours as Diane brought forth different characters from Monkey King. In her enactment — it is no mere performance — she is accessing something much more than can be found via discipline and memory. Watching her I...
Read MoreDiane on Late Night Live
When Diane first performed in Australia (1995–1996), she had the pleasure of speaking with Phillip Adams on Late Night Live, one of the longest–running radio conversation shows on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National service. While recently in Canberra, Diana returned to the microphones of Radio National to speak with Mr. Adams about the Monkey King Epic. It is now available here in the Late Night Live archives of the ABC Radio National website....
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