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3 AM

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Charles Moulton

It is 3am. We are wide awake laying in bed.  The terrible images won’t leave us alone. No one can sleep. We will get up and started working.  It seems like the only alternative.  A single daffy bird begins to sing.  It’s still pitch dark.  There’s no apparent reason to sing.  The dawn is a long way off. Birds are in touch with a lot that we’re not in touch with. They find their way by listening to waves, or the wind, or they read the clouds…. They have some organ that senses the magnetic resonance of the earth.  But tonight, it is a single bird that is awake, not a crowd of birds, not a flock.  Why this particular bird?

Before going to bed last night, I had a vision. I don’t know if I can really communicate this very well. I imagined that we were camping here.  Even though we own this house and have lived her for 5 years ….  I imagined that the three of us – Grey Boy, Janice and me – were making camp in this place and that at least for this night – we were OK

For just that moment…….

 


Charles MoultonCharles Moulton is an award-winning Choreographer, Visual Artist and Writer living in Oakland, California. He has created works on dance companies all over the world and is particularly known for his signature work Ball Passing which can be performed by dancers and non-dancers alike. His visual art has appeared at galleries in Oakland and at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ. He began his career dancing with Merce Cunningham, is a Founding Co-Director of Performance Space 122 and is currently Co-Artistic Director of Garrett + Moulton Productions in San Francisco.

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