“4″ was a very well thought, designed, choreographed and performed Jazz Dance show where audience members found a clear message of conflict and rejection that many teens and adults experience because of the way they look. Obesity was one of the main theme in all the performance. I found it extremely courageous to actually represent this issue that plagues America with an overweight but talented dancer who fully expressed the peer pressure and neurosis in attempting to “keep” up with the other “Barbie-doll-almost-robotic” dancers on stage.

One of my favorite pieces was “Iron Man” where the message of social issues as working together to make it better for all was loud and clear.

“4″ inspired me to consider the production of a future Dance/Film Performance aimed to increase the awareness of America’s Oil Addiction. I will be discussing details with Ms. Horner, should she find the subject of interest.

I am looking forward to see more performances from Micelle and her team of dancers.

Thank you
Enza Sebastiani
http://www.enzasebastiani.com
http://www.onethousandhearts.com

Dream of summer nights! Fantastic,
Pointless is my song. Yes, pointless
Just like love, or just like living,
Like creator and creation!

Only its own zest obeying,
Whether galloping or flying,
In the realm of fable bustles
My belovéd Pegasus.

Not a virtuous and useful
Cart horse for the bourgeoisie,
Nor a mount for warring parties
That, pathetic, stamps and whinnies!

Schiller’s poem, “Pegasus in Harness,” is too long to post here, but here’s a link to a good translation:
http://davidsbuendler.freehostia.com/pegasus.htm

So having said that it is difficult to make political art, I wish you all success in doing it. Now a word on politics: I thought it was interesting that you mention “nationalism- my hope to see the restoration of a “good” American ideology/ world view.” I strongly agree. I have spent many hours reading the words and deeds of American heroes such as John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Their ideology/world view, which was loved and respected all over the world, has been forgotten here at home. I must question, however, your list of sociologists which you endorse, because I think they represent something very different. In the case of Karl Marx, for example, I think his heart was in the right place, but he was ruined by his British education, which caused him to cast his lot with the philosophical doctrine of materialism. Compare him with Lincoln’s advisor Henry C. Carey, with whom Marx carried on a spirited debate via correspondence. Carey’s outlook is superior in every respect, but ironically Marx is now better known in America.

I hope you found these comments provocative without being too provocative. That’s all for now.