Astonishing.
Category: dance
October 12, 2010
October 4, 2010
Siberian Shaman Tatiana Explains The Mushrooms
After some drumming by the local women, Tatiana Urkachen, a 7th generation shaman of the Evan branch of the Tungas tribe of Siberia, talks about the various effects of Fly Agaric mushrooms. Notice the incredibly youthful energy coming from a woman who was probably in her 70′s when this was recorded.
May 27, 2010
Lets Go Back !! Acid House
Seriously awesome 88-89 Acid House mash-up. Amazing music, outstanding footage:
May 24, 2010
Symbiosis '09
It’s hard to imagine there could be more beauty in 2 minutes of video than this:
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This festival definitely reoriented my life.
Shot and Edited by Manifest Media.
March 13, 2010
March 10, 2010
Legion of Extraordinary Dancers @ TED
If you’ve ever enjoyed any dance performances, particularly hip hop, electro and trippy rave-dance fluidics, you must sit back and watch this intoxicatingly beautiful 17 minute video.
February 20, 2010
4th Density Dance
A merging of Scott Draves’ Flames software with the moving body by visionary artist Android Jones.
4th DENSITY DANCE a merging of the latest advances in digital art projection technology with the internal principles of dance.
Andrew Jones and Phaedra Ana are pioneering the emergence of a new type of interactive expression which has been termed fourth density dance: a unique fusion of live painting and live movement that has naturally emerged from a multilayered joint venture that pushed individual boundaries.
On stage, fluidity of motion intuitively blends in with the flow of different dynamic objects moved around in space; while using a combination of proprietary soft-ware and custom digital hardware the visuals projected onto the screen behind organically tune into this motion, accentuating the dancers movements as they follow them in real time until a new level of spatial depth is achieved.
December 6, 2009
Erik Davis on the Neotribal Festival Circuit
Superb writing in this excerpt from the introduction to the Tribal Revival photo-book.
Highly recommended!
“At that moment I knew, with almost unbearable conviction, that this exact moment had occurred before, that it echoed back through a thousand years of a thousand dusty stomps, and that all festivals were really just one festival, eternally recurring.
Read Tribal Revival at Reality Sandwich.
See images from the book in this video.
December 4, 2009
BOOM: Collective Shamanism
Great little video about psytrance and the premier psychedelic festival, Boom. Features techno-musicologist, Graham St. John:
Trust In Trance!
November 23, 2009
Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures
New book from editor of Dancecult, Graham St. John just published:
Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures
Graham is also planning to publish a book about psytrance next year.
