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THE LIVING EARTH
ENCOURAGING UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Artistic Director
Cheryl Flaharty
Dancer
Jamie Nakama
Violinist
Lisa Gomes
Text
Rumi
Costume and Set Design
Cheryl Flaharty
Lighting
Janine Myers
Production Assistant
Lynn Maire Sager
Stage Manager
Barett Hoover
Video Editing
Izumi Designs
Creative Team - Costumes & Sets
Cheryl Flaharty, Rebecca Horne, Dee Kursat, Carlyn Wolfe, Lindsey Shannon, Geneva Rivera, Peggy Hill, Rose Wolfe.
Supported by the Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawai`i or grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cades Foundation, and Jean Rolles.
ABOUT THE SHOW
‘The Living Earth’ was presented in 2009 as the fifth interactive production of IONA’s diverse Salon Series. Staged at Honolulu Hale’s Sky Gate Sculpture designed by Isamu Noguchi, 'The Living Earth' wove together dance and spirituality to present a theatrical dialogue of universal concerns. The interactive performance revolved around a Cosmic Circus featuring a Living Altar of sacred statues that brought the audience through the chakras as the evening progressed. Surrounding the Circus were nine Gates of Earth Awareness performance tents designed to honor and bring awareness to the current state of the planet and human consciousness. Prior to the show, audience members chose their individual “fate,” or order in which they watched the performance evolve as they visited each of the nine Gates.
ABOUT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
“The most important thing in this world is to learn to give out love, and let it come in.” ~Morrie Schwartz
Unconditional love means love without condition. Unconditional love refers to a love that has no demands, no limits, no requirements and no thoughts of reciprocation. Unconditional love is not affected by reality or any behaviors and is free of oaths and contracts, anticipations, expectations and attachments. Unconditional Love is impervious to approval or disapproval and does not need to be coddled or catered to in order for it to flow.
Life, through unconditional love, is a wondrous adventure that excites the very core of our being and lights our path with delight. True love is beyond thoughts, feelings and emotions. It is the expression of the Trinity of the lover - the beloved - the act of loving expressed through Being in the moment.
