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Swoon
This Used to Be Called a Swoon
Can
I Sit Down Now
Author:
Diane
Oatley Binding: Paperback
(pp: 62) ISBN: 81-8253-045-8
Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2
days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net Pub. Date: 2005 Condition: New
Description:
Diane Oatley is originally from the United States, of Norwegian-American descent and a resident of Norway since 1982, at which time she attended the University of Oslo as part of her junior year abroad. She transferred from the University of Maine to the University of Oslo in 1983, and subsequently went on to complete a Masters Program in Comparative Literature (women writers within the Anglo-American and Scandinavian traditions), also at the University of Oslo. Since the completion of her studies in 1990 she has worked with literature and dance in a number of capacities, as a poet, freelance writer, lecturer, translator, dance critic/essayist, consultant for dance productions and performer/teacher of Oriental Dance. Expressions of the body represent an ongoing focus in her dance practice and writings, the latter in the form of essays, criticism and poetry published in a wide range of newspapers, periodicals and anthologies in Norway, USA and Great Britain.
Subsequent projects have taken this focus into the theme of cultural hybridity, in explorations through poetry, dance and other visual media of boundaries and migrations between artistic genres, cultures and identities. She began working in an interdisciplinary fashion immediately upon concluding her studies - applying feminist literary theory on the body and writing to dance and the performing arts. She began writing texts, experimenting with voices and exploring the boundaries between literary and performance genres, sound vs. sense, body vs. mind, movement vs. language. In conjunction with this work Ms. Oatley developed a dance practice within the field of Oriental (Middle Eastern/North African) Dance, based on the need to ground dance and movement theory in practice in such a way as to allow practice to reveal unexpected theoretic openings and connections..
Further, she has worked as a consultant on performance arts productions, been a guest lecturer on a number of occasions at Oslo University College, the University of Oslo, Black Box Theatre and the Oslo School of Contemporary Dance on the subject of Contemporary Dance and the body. She has taught and performed Oriental Dance for over 12 years and in 2002 expanded her dance focus to include the study of Flamenco. She is presently working on a performance combining her own texts and a mixture of Flamenco and Arabic dance with contemporary movement traditions.
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SACRED TRUST
A mouth opens to
indicate only a sensual
parting of its own
pursed lips. Echoes fall
like shadows through the broken space
of words best left unpronounced..
The leaves
on the trees are broken, too. Warm winds
collect and divide, losing themselves between
branches as the air clears of dust.
The sacred trust of a tree alone
remains undisturbed. It reaches and points.
Effort sighs an ancient sigh.
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