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"The Yoga of Moby-Dick"
Free Performance and Discussion
Thursday, 2/28 only
8:00
FREE
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The producers of the solo-show, THE YOGA OF MOBY-DICK recently offered free
tix to the members of Squid List for two press openings. We were swamped with
responses. Thanks for being a part of two terrific performances. We're now
offering Squid List subscribers a second opportunity to see THE YOGA OF
MOBY-DICK and participate in a discussion that includes some of our nations
leading experts on Moby-Dick and Yoga. Check out the info below. We want you
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THE YOGA OF MOBY DICK and AMERICAN YOGI
God or no God? If a whale ate your leg could you still do tree pose? Mark
Kenward asks the essential questions in his provocative comic solo
performance which won effusive praise in its initial outings at The Winnipeg
and San Francisco Fringe Festivals and was then awarded a mainstage run at
San Francisco’s most prestigious venue for solo performance: The Marsh.
Developed with and directed by SF solo performance guru David Ford, THE
YOGA OF MOBY-DICK is the fourth in a quartet of innovative works that
originated with Kenward’s stunning one man adaptation of Moby-Dick. This
recreation of Melville's classic text was nominated by the Bay Area Theater
Critics Association for best solo performance in 1995 and toured eleven
cities, drawing praise in each one.
Now, as a new dad and nascent Yoga teacher, Kenward once again wrestles
with Melville's ideas but in a contemporary context that has electrified
audiences. With the fervor of a mad Ahab, Kenward pursues an improbable and
surprisingly personal connection between Hatha Yoga and the great American
novel as he struggles with the legacy of a literate yet violent parent.
During the course of the show, he restlessly prowls a vast landscape from
Nantucket to the Mill Valley Yoga Studio to the deck of the Pequod in search
of meditative redemption that may be no further than his own back yard.
Kenward allows this tale to unfold in his inimitably, self-effacing, comic
manner while bravely welcoming us into the darkest parts of a mysterious
past that still haunts him today.
SPECIAL EVENT:
AMERICAN YOGI: PERSPECTIVES ON EASTERN PRACTICE AND OUR NATIONAL MYTHOLOGY
A panel discussion following the Thursday, February 28th performance
Barbara Lane (Moderator ) -- writer, literary event director at the
Commonwealth Club, and yoga student.
Hilton Obenzinger, PhD - Stanford English professor, novelist, and Melville
scholar
Richard Miller, PhD - yoga teacher, cofounder of The Int. Assoc. of Yoga
Therapists, clinical psychologist
Mark Kenward - writer/performer, yoga teacher
Many Western scholars and writers have predicted that the meeting of
Eastern and Western philosophies will someday prove to be one of the most
significant events of our age. Today in America—when consumerism has never
been more rampant and danger has never seemed so near — more people than
ever are grounding their lives in Eastern practices such as Yoga, Zen, and
meditation. Some of these seekers leave their homeland, figuratively and
literally, while others remain here in America trying to tread an authentic
path within their own cultural milieu. Can it be done? Can our own
literature, mythology, and memoirs help us relate to the Eastern philosophy
of self-transcendence? Or are we courting spiritual dilettantism by refusing
to let go of the trappings of our narcissistic culture? These questions and
more will be addressed in a fascinating panel discussion. Please join Mark
and friends for one of these lively forays into a world of
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San Francisco
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