In todays episode Elaine chats with New Zealand performer and choreographer Sacha Copland about her new show Anatomy for Accounts. We chat the creation of the show, what we are actually worth, how amazing our bodies are and the work that we need to do as white people to break down misogyny, racism, homophobia and so much more and how we do this with out getting defensive.
Anatomy for Accountants ticket link: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/anatomy-for-accountants

A high-risk, high-return dance show about how much our physical bodies are worth in a society ruled by cold hard numbers.
Natural growth doesn’t make sense in a world tightly commanded by economics - and prolific choreographer Sacha Copland of Java Dance Theatre (Back of the Bus, 2014) has something to say about it. 
A show for lovers of the body (and accountants), Anatomy for Accountants is a passionate, new dance-theatre show about giving bodies back their full range. Copland prices every aspect of her own life to deconstruct how we define and understand our own worth whilst celebrating the body.
Joined by live musician and performer Tristan Carter in the role of number-crunching Chief Financial Officer, Copland crafts a deeply creative, vulnerable meditation on her own human form - pricing her limbs, head, and organs nude for the audience to see and intimately experience. 
Lilting between gentle and brutal, soft and dark, universal and personal, Anatomy for Accountants examines how our value changes and shifts across our lived experiences; how every forced or pressured YES or each resolute or exhausted NO impacts how we are received by others, and if we depreciate or increase in value in their eyes. 
Holding the audience in a charged yet ultimately compassionate embrace, Anatomy for Accountants references deep family histories, personal anecdotes, what we owe the future, and how the body holds onto it all - showing us that, in the end, it is simply enough to exist. 
Through Copland’s creative search to reunite with herself, the show celebrates the expansive nature of humanity and our own thrilling ability to be alive.

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Edinburgh Festival 24 Series -Ep 208: Anatomy For Accounts

Music from the theatre show "Sexodrom", directed by Bogdan Georgescu, prod. by Giuvlipen, 2019, Bucharest

Writing: Mihaela Drăgan, Antonella Lerca Duda, Nicoleta Ghiță, Zita Moldovan, Bety Pisică, Oana
Rusu, Raj Alexandru Udrea
Concept and directing: Bogdan Georgescu
Scenography: Irina Gâdiuţă
Music: Alex Bălă
Choreography: Paula Dunker

Final Monologue

Mihaela's Theme

Anto's Theme

Music from the performance "Trepidații/ Antigen/ Ora Perfectă", directed by Bogdan Georgescu; by Iris Horomnea, Dani Prisacariu, Ceza Bularca; with Iris Horomnea, Dani Prisacariu, Ceza Bularca & Alexandru Chindriș, prod. by O2G, Bucharest, 2021

Ending Theme

Dani's Theme

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This year's theme of Paseo Project was "thresholds." This is my live set from the Silent Disco with Weird Bird Music on night 2 Paseo Project in Taos, NM.

what you're getting into:

This multi-genre mix covers a broad range, beginning with femme/intersectional alt-hip hop and segueing into energetic industrial/techno tracks and cinematic classics from the 1999 soundtrack of The Matrix. Interwoven are excerpts from a Terence McKenna interview, classic sound bites from The Matrix, and a few other complements/contrasts within the "threshold" theme. It finishes with danceable remixes of some favorite mainstream 2000s/2010s nostalgia, plus some vibey atmospheric house remixes of timeless classics.

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~ thresholds ~ [Paseo Project Silent Disco 2025]

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Our goal is to create a project that is safe and supportive, but that is also an act of protest. Persistent and Nasty is about changing the cultural narrative through the stories we tell.

Bălă is the tentative alias under which Alex Bălă releases his own music. Alex Bălă is a musician based in Bucharest, Romania. He plays in the queer act #FLUID and the krautrock band deathbycoconut, often collaborates with Gabriela and Cristian Fierbințeanu (Plurabelle, Fierbinteanu etc) and makes music for theatre, dance, film, installations and all manner of performative works.

He has performed, either with his groups or with various stage productions, as music composer and/or performer, in London (Romanian Cultural Institute), Lisbon (Teatro dos Aloés), Berlin (Kantine am Berghain, Loophole Club, Between Bridges Gallery), Venice (Casinò di Venezia for the opening of the 59th Venice Biennale), Prague (Cafe v Lese, Bajkazyl), Brno (Dům umění města Brna), Sofia (One Gallery), Athens (Modern Times Theatre), Kalamata (the Philharmonic), Santorini (Santozeum), among others.

Any and all inquiries: alex.bala@yahoo.com

New tracks tagged #intersectional