Divine Eros Unravells: An inherited choreopoem video and script (c) 2014

Title: Divine Eros Unravels: An inherited choreo-Poem

by Sacred W. Taneshia K. Campbell

(Co-birthed with Emerge fam. and Spirit :D!)

Narrator cue (offstage right):

Facial expression: All Emotional arch- Happy/ JOY/ upward movements

Yesterday

I was Sacred - age 16

Movers Enter stage right to Center stage:

(Movement of desire going towards stage: left- of audience)

Sacred +1/1 cue opening: enters & molds image and facial expression of Divine Love.

Characters Cue marker (except Polina): One at a time enter as image of divine love...

Be sure image on face holds true to emotional intent of character.

I started out as a temple dancer.

I was so honored to be called by Spirit. To praise.

moving in tantric form.

Divine bliss expressed

It started out as a commitment to God

Dancing with Spirit gave life a new meaning

A generational family calling

So I sent for my Jamaican aunties and mother to immigrate

Receive

An honest living- living in love

Last to enter- Polina (role change: Ally to oppressor) cue enter scene and mold image of opening door and pointing to scene-

One day

Priestly men

Came and entered the temple

Music cue- Nina Simone- Images (Track Number 10)

(Narrator NB: escalate voice and say this 2nd cue, nice and loud so we can hear and experience this impact)

CUE- All characters melt into image of oppression- Sacred will begin it. HOLD When formed.

Facial expression: Oppressor- Menaced, Upset, Angry. Oppressed: Sad, fearful, worried.

Allies: Concerned or menacing- depending on role.

Music simmers to a stop- movement begins- narration continues

Came and entered my temple

Pillaged over burnt through forest land

Became my bush

They were the conduit to God

Started calling me a sodomite gyal because (g-e-al)

I represented a conduit that they did not know of

sinful sinful sinful they bade

Bow down before them

And one day

Fist to mouth

(Narrator NB: escalate voice and say this 2nd cue, nice and loud so we can hear and experience this impact)

Fist to mouth

Denae Cue: fist in mouth by this point- ALL HOLD

Legs spread

Palms wide open

He took me

He said my body lured him into sinfulness

My very being was his healing, how could I deny him

His bliss

Quivering body

(Narrator NB: escalate voice and say this 2nd cue, nice and loud so we can hear and experience this impact)

Quivering body

Cue begin movement

My own ecstatic body betrayed me

Forcibly Defiled Divine ecstasy

The one who claimed access to Glory

Forced himself upon me

I hated him

And my body more

But you I loved

And in that love hate

Sarasvati- Divine Wisdom

My daughter was born

Birthed

STOP RELEASE

Cue-

All freeze-

Turn head to audience-

La Maz Breath 3 times.

Form face back to original image before La Maz breath- distinguish

Turn head back to position.

Narrator Continue when reading begins.

What a beautiful little girl

Life force

Bearing the locks of love in the midst of despair

Born in that temple

Without anesthesia

I pulled her out with my bare hands

Amidst family imploding

But today I commit to escape and get back to my direct connection with God

Get out of this place

That has marked my body and soiled my womb

rebirth

For in order for a phoenix to rise it must first burn

You do not get to tell me again

who has access to God

You do not get to tell me I have limited ways

That I lured you in

Wrong Wrong Wrong

Spirit calls us - Get out of this place

I am an inch closer to freedom and yet

I HAVE GOTTEN TOO USED TO THIS FIST REMAINING IN MY MOUTH

Heart-broken patriarchy

Eroticism breaks me open and heals me whole

Narrator Cue: Pause in reading for a three breaths

Characters cue- all hold image- inhale exhale together for three breaths

Each person says a word in that image- cued by Sacred starting

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ALL Stay with steady slow movement

Emotional arch- Same or what ever arises from desire

Facial expression: Complimentary

(I want this to be as organic as possible. So will specifics are what arise inwardly vs. performatively.)

Ten years later

Today

I am Sacred- age 26

REunited (reunited)

Applied for a visa

to get asylum for my future wife, child, and I

To get asylum in the states

And in brothels

in Oakland streets and Crown Heights

storefront shops

The struggle continues- got to get out of this place

And now

Detention cell

In between here and nowhere

The man with the jaggle tooth told me $500 would buy me freedom

From the threats back home

These higher class uptown moms
Live a life
In a lower class downtown

detention camp
Lovers born
Out of strife
Melting into the arms of another
This place is like a madhouse

STOP RELEASE

Cue- All freeze- Turn head to audience-

SILENT SCREAM-

Mouths and eyes wide open staring.

Turn head back to position.

Narrator continues reading when movement begins.

Wailing noises and
Screaming mothers
Going mad
And somehow
You find laughter in a moment
Find a dandelion growing out the shoot
Of the fence
Bring it to me
And there lies joy

Eros
Amidst
Destruction
And despair

Enduring love...

I cannot give up now. Got to get out of this place.

Justice seeking Eroticism breaks me open and heals me whole.

Narrator cue: Pause in reading for a three breaths

Characters cue- all hold image- inhale exhale together for three breaths

Each person says a word in that image- starting with Sacred

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ALL Stay with steady slow movement

Emotional arch- RELEASE OF TENSION, BUT STILL IN STRUGGLE

 or what ever arises from desire. This portion hasn't yet- future thinking.

Facial expression: Oppressor: Menacing, angry, revelatory, afraid (of loosing power)

Oppressed: Tired, Sad, Fear (Of newly rediscovered power), joy, anger.

Allies: Anger, Fear, Sadness, Joy. Will vary depending on position during movement.

NB: Be present with what arises within: I want this to be as organic as possible. So will specifics are what arise inwardly vs. performatively.

Ten years later

Tomorrow

We are Sacred age 36

ReUnited

Eroticism is laying on my momma's belly

After feeling lost for so long

Her super clean while cluttered one bedroom apartment in Crown Heights Brooklyn

Holding one another

The way I held my daughter at birth

Sarasvati (Sara-s-va-tea)

As the fantasy images of the television flicker in the window

Breaking into fraggled light particles

Sneaking past the steel black window guard

Keeping thieves and light out

My hot head and soft baby hairs stroked by mommy's thinly lined

finger tips

STOP RELEASE

Cue- All freeze-

Turn head to audience-

FACE SADDENED-

EYES WIDE-

TURNS TO slow release into

OUTLOUD slow sad LAUGHTER-

Turn face back to original image

RETURN FACE TO POSITION-

Narrator Continues reading when movement begins.

Laughter medicine melts away tears.

Giggling

To the season finale of

"Once upon a time"

Fantasy real- OUR Church on a Sunday night

No words just warmth

Maternal Brown arms wrapped around

One another in our street clothes

My mom's pet peeve overlooked

It's like a prayer

Love MaGniFied. (magnified)

She 

No longer scared of my gayness rubbing off

Thoughts melt in the heat of the brim of summer

Fear bugs scurry under the bed of what she might catch in between

her soft

Baby blue sheets

When I leave.

When we get out of this fear place.

All that matters now is

Ear to heart

Face to belly that re-birthed we

Breathe to breathe

The clutter of old wounds

And gay stereotypes

melt away

as we get lost in TV fantasy

Love in mother daughter bonds renewed

Scribing new stories out of pillaged bush

Seeking whole liberation amidst shattered dreams

Divine Eroticism cracks me open

& Heals me whole.

Characters cue-

all hold image-

inhale exhale together for three breaths-

Group move slowly to form circle.

Group hug.

Welcome narrator. Hold hands.

Fan out.

Bow.

[Bravo- Thick or thin- oh shit- we made it on thru! :D]

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