There were two unbeatable heroes...
One has the power in his heart and the other in his thoughts.
It was a time of shadows, the world was being created among the beasts, monsters evil and good entities.
Their mission was to face the dangers that took over the world.
Then came the most difficult task ever.
Defeat a Dragon that destroys the crops, villages as humanity was beginning to fade.
They found the Dragon and after seven days and nights of amazing fight the heroes managed to hit the dragon in one fundamental point.
When the Dragon exhales its last breath the whole earth trembles.
The heroes realize that it was one of the four Dragons that were holding the world on their backs.
Terrified they get rid of the weapons an return to the village to tell what happened and find ways to look after the Dragons.
Being a warrior was not enough.
quinta-feira, 11 de agosto de 2011
Dan Yashinsky
“With myths, one should not be in a hurry.” Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the New
Millennium
“Go on listening, carefully, respectfully. After a while, the earth feels free to speak.”
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller
The last chapter of that book is titled Dreaming a New Myth,and considers the possibility that a new body of oral narrative is indeed emerging in contemporary society, and that its central theme has to do with the act and moral dimensions of listening to voices that are beyond our customary bandwidth of perception and understanding. Listening, in this context, is about being able to attend to voices that speak from beyond the borders of what we typically allow ourselves to hear. In
traditional stories, for example, this understanding of the importance of listening is shown by the way the heroes stop on their quests to gather necessary wisdom from
unlikely sources: a dusty mouse on a fairytale road, or a beggar, or a voice heard in a dream; that is, to voices that are all-too-easily disregarded.
What is the nature of such story-listening? For stories to live by word-of-mouth, oral cultures throughout the world evolved sophisticated understandings of the importance of listening. As well, in the contemporary storytelling renaissance, there has been a rediscovery of this quality of listening, a re-education of ourselves as story-listeners.
Whether found in established oral cultures or coming back into focus through modern
artistic experimentation, an understanding of listening as both philosophy and practice frames and sustains the exchange of oral narrative. “What the ear does not hear,”claims a Cape Breton proverb, “cannot move the heart.”
I’m doing this work because I believe that the world is in need of a new myth, a new set of stories to remember and tell. A new understanding of how to listen to hard-to-hear voices – including to the voice of myth itself - may, as I hope to show in The Listener’s Tale, lie at the heart of this new narrative. In The Lord of The Rings, Tolkien (a great modern myth-teller himself) has a wise old tree-creature recall the way the ancient earthpeople gained their extraordinary power: “They always wanted to talk to everything, the old Elves did.” Our greatest hope for survival today may be to take a lesson from these elven conversational skills. If we only ever hear and repeat our own story, if we fail to open our ears to new and different voices, the consequences will be both dangerous and extreme. Perhaps we need a new story to remind us that we must keep listening, even to the voices that are most difficult to hear, including to the earth, to our children, to our dreams, and, most challenging of all, to each other.
Millennium
“Go on listening, carefully, respectfully. After a while, the earth feels free to speak.”
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller
The last chapter of that book is titled Dreaming a New Myth,and considers the possibility that a new body of oral narrative is indeed emerging in contemporary society, and that its central theme has to do with the act and moral dimensions of listening to voices that are beyond our customary bandwidth of perception and understanding. Listening, in this context, is about being able to attend to voices that speak from beyond the borders of what we typically allow ourselves to hear. In
traditional stories, for example, this understanding of the importance of listening is shown by the way the heroes stop on their quests to gather necessary wisdom from
unlikely sources: a dusty mouse on a fairytale road, or a beggar, or a voice heard in a dream; that is, to voices that are all-too-easily disregarded.
What is the nature of such story-listening? For stories to live by word-of-mouth, oral cultures throughout the world evolved sophisticated understandings of the importance of listening. As well, in the contemporary storytelling renaissance, there has been a rediscovery of this quality of listening, a re-education of ourselves as story-listeners.
Whether found in established oral cultures or coming back into focus through modern
artistic experimentation, an understanding of listening as both philosophy and practice frames and sustains the exchange of oral narrative. “What the ear does not hear,”claims a Cape Breton proverb, “cannot move the heart.”
I’m doing this work because I believe that the world is in need of a new myth, a new set of stories to remember and tell. A new understanding of how to listen to hard-to-hear voices – including to the voice of myth itself - may, as I hope to show in The Listener’s Tale, lie at the heart of this new narrative. In The Lord of The Rings, Tolkien (a great modern myth-teller himself) has a wise old tree-creature recall the way the ancient earthpeople gained their extraordinary power: “They always wanted to talk to everything, the old Elves did.” Our greatest hope for survival today may be to take a lesson from these elven conversational skills. If we only ever hear and repeat our own story, if we fail to open our ears to new and different voices, the consequences will be both dangerous and extreme. Perhaps we need a new story to remind us that we must keep listening, even to the voices that are most difficult to hear, including to the earth, to our children, to our dreams, and, most challenging of all, to each other.
The invitation . The Project .
Before the world ends, we Rutes, want to invite you, Gobsquad, to save the Dragons.
In this mission we are going to be in 3 different places around the world: São Paulo (Cris), Montreal (Bê) and Berlim (Gobs).
We would like to share our process so far. Which means that we have created a plot that can be fed and transformed in many many ways.
In our research one of the things that we most like to do is to listen to stories and we believe that like the heroes in the Navarro myth this is a way of saving the world. If we listen to the Dragons and report what they say, creating a new story of ourselves, we can transform what would be the end of our world in a new kind of Hope.
How we intend to do it?
We propose a plot that will be our common space for our colective mission. Throughout one year, beggining this october, we would simultaneously experience a series of steps to accomplish our common mission. In each stage, each one of us, will create a poetic sinthesis, using specific medias such as vídeos, animation, stop motion, interviews, performance and drawings. At the same time, we will be sharing through the virtual space all this contents.
At the end which might be in December 2012 we want to deliver the process here in Brasil in a public event where we are going to report the narrative we had buit toghether: instalation? Animation? Performance? All toghether? We have to figure it out...
What if I find the Dragon? Ask him to share a sparkling moment of his existence. When everything turns dark hold to that moment to reach the future.
In this mission we are going to be in 3 different places around the world: São Paulo (Cris), Montreal (Bê) and Berlim (Gobs).
We would like to share our process so far. Which means that we have created a plot that can be fed and transformed in many many ways.
In our research one of the things that we most like to do is to listen to stories and we believe that like the heroes in the Navarro myth this is a way of saving the world. If we listen to the Dragons and report what they say, creating a new story of ourselves, we can transform what would be the end of our world in a new kind of Hope.
How we intend to do it?
We propose a plot that will be our common space for our colective mission. Throughout one year, beggining this october, we would simultaneously experience a series of steps to accomplish our common mission. In each stage, each one of us, will create a poetic sinthesis, using specific medias such as vídeos, animation, stop motion, interviews, performance and drawings. At the same time, we will be sharing through the virtual space all this contents.
At the end which might be in December 2012 we want to deliver the process here in Brasil in a public event where we are going to report the narrative we had buit toghether: instalation? Animation? Performance? All toghether? We have to figure it out...
What if I find the Dragon? Ask him to share a sparkling moment of his existence. When everything turns dark hold to that moment to reach the future.
. references .
Here are some references, ideas of images, videos, ways of dealing with long distance comunication, etc... that we have so far....
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