Skill in Action, Stillness in Motion, and Grace Under Pressure.

This is a yoga experience unlike any other. Edward Clark, is the creator of Tripsichore,

an innovative London-based company that evolved from a contemporarydance troupe into a

revolutionary yoga performance team. Tripsichore techniques are for anyone interested in expanding their potential.

We will explore and analyze technical approaches to breathing, backbends, bandhas, vinyasa, and inversions,

with the aim of experiencing how energy flows through the body to create the sacred geometry of yoga.

This weekend you will learn Tripsichore Sun Salutes, including extraordinary variations that work with a range of bandha principles.

You will also discover how to confidently execute inversions- with an arrayof exciting selections for those who already love

being upside down-and go deeper into backbends. Beyond the feeling of well-being that comes from gaining mastery,

Tripsichore techniques also lead to something greater-an understanding that every action or thought, however small,

makes a difference to the cosmic whole.

Check out a video of "THE INSECTS"!

Tripsichore have been as busy as bees – ant like in their industry – and they are buzzing with excitement to let the

world know about their all new THE INSECTS. It is a wildly inventive piece of yoga theatre where the asanas and

vinyasas are used as the movement vocabulary of a group of curious insect creatures.

In this modern telling of the ancient mysteries of yoga, you'll be treated to a moving storytelling sculpture.

As bodies flex and elongate into fascinating and extravagant shapes, the Tripsichoreans will take you to an enchanting landscape-

a place peopled with characters that are charming and dangerous. Their performance is dark and light, humerous and serious,

and expressed through the uniquely captivating physical vocabulary of yogs.

Music by, legendary BJ COLE

The scope of BJs work can be seen at www.bjcole.co.uk

BJ COLE is a unique innovator on the Pedal Steel Guitar who has carved out a formidable reputation as a session musician, and established his own artistic identity with the release of five of his own albums. He has recorded with many of the great names in popular music, such as Elton John, Marc Bolan, Scott Walker, Beck, Bjork, Sting, David Sylvian and many others. In recent years such recording activities have led to BJ playing on tour dates with The Verve, REM and Sting.

BJ was a founder member of the British post psychedelic band COCHISE. He went on to write and record his seminal experimental album 'The New Hovering Dog' (United Artists 1973). The 1970's saw BJ establishing his session career with groundbreaking recordings with Steve Marriott, Elton John, Dave Edmunds and Gerry Rafferty as well as extensive touring with the bands of Kiki Dee and Andy Fairweather Low. On top of this BJ found time to establish Cow Pie Records which led to his long term association with Hank Wangford. In the 1980's BJ consolidated his status as a session musician with defining work for Shakin Stevens, David Sylvian, Deacon Blue and Depeche Mode.

His entry in Wikipedia says..."He also played with Elton John on his albums Tumbleweed Connection and Madman Across The Water, specifically on the songs "Country Comfort" and "Tiny Dancer". For a few select appearances in 1998, Cole joined R.E.M. for live performances of the latter's "Daysleeper", "Country Feedback", "Man on the Moon", and a cover of Iggy Pop's "The Passenger", which closed out the band's Later with Jools Holland R.E.M. special. He has also worked with Kevin Ayers, Richard Ashcroft, The Verve, Luke Vibert, Roger Waters, Juno Reactor, Depeche Mode, Doll by Doll, Devon Sproule, David Gilmour and Sting."

Julia Horn, Triangle Yoga's very own,

returns to her roots as a featured performer with Tripsichore!

ABOUT TRIPSICHORE

Edward Clark, founder of Tripsichore Yoga Theatre, is London based yet known all over the world

for his innovative work. His troupe of extraordinary yogi-artists travels extensively bringing

the beauty and grace of yoga into communities everywhere.

Tripsichore began in 1979 as a company devoted to creating full length dance narratives. We explored a variety of stylistic forms

including punk ballet, conventional modern dance and strict neo-classical technique. We used masks, performed with rock bands

and did pop videos. While yoga was always a part of our training, it wasn’t until 1992 that we realised the expressive potential

and choreographic viability of yoga postures. Once we began to devise works using yoga asanas, their extraordinary artistic logic

became evident. Surprisingly, it would seem that there has been no orthodox tradition for using yoga technique to create dances

in the 5000 year history of the discipline. The postures intrinsically possess a sumptuous beauty and fluidity. They are the ideal

vehicle to express the themes of harmony, balance, spirituality, ecstasy, bliss and mysticism because they are exactly about these

subjects in and of themselves. We are now 13 years into this experiment and each day brings new discoveries.

Please visit www.tripsichore.com

ABOUT EDWARD

Edward Clark is the creator of Tripsichore Yoga Theatre, the London based yoga group who have delighted audiences in Europe,

North America and Asia with their sensual and lyric application of yoga to make serenely absorbing performance art. Tripsichore

Yoga Theatre have been hailed as some of the most innovative practitioners of vinyasa yoga. Sequestered in their studio in London,

England, the company has worked daily for the past 12 years to devise and refine yoga techniques of asana, pranayama, pratayahara,

dharana, and dhyana…making excursions out to perform their creations to audiences worldwide. Until now, their techniques have

only been taught to a very few.

Edward Clark began studying yoga in 1979. Noteworthy among his teachers are Narayani and Giris Rabinovitch, but he confesses

huge admiration for the Ashtanga Vinyasa, Sivananda, Iyengar and Viniyoga practices. The technique Tripsichore uses is a synthesis

of many aspects of yoga. Edward says, "We are quick to disclaim that what we do is dance. While there are dancers in the company,

there are others who have never been in a dance studio. They meet on a common ground of pure yoga." Edward is also the Head of

Movement and Dance at the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London where he has taught for the past

22 years (students include Minnie Driver, Julia Ormond, Rupert Evans). "The incorporation of yoga in the training of actors was an

outrageous idea 10 years ago, but is now being adopted throughout training institutions in the UK," says Mr. Clark.

Edward says, "The concept of vinyasa as applied to yoga philosophy could either be considered very ancient or radically new.

In either case, vinyasa seems to be the great contribution to yoga of this particular generation of yogis. Most yoga discipline has

worked on refining one’s self in the direction of greater stillness – an absence of movement in the mind and body. Superficially,

vinyasa would seem to contradict this. However, the mental focus and physical technique needed to bring about continuous fluid

movement can also bring one to a "seat" of great stability and clarity. The stability is not only in the posture, but in the transition

between postures – to the point where there is no distinction between movement and stillness. The place of vinyasa in the history

of yoga is yet to be determined, but as yoga has become a world wide pursuit, it is probably safe to say that its importance now

also lies in how people begin to apply it outside the more traditional places it has been practised."

VINYASA in our definition, is the evenly metered flow of movement, breath and thought resulting in a smooth, uninflected state of being.

The vinyasa techniques are pursued to bring about clarity and stability to one’s thoughts and actions. Tripsichore endeavours to do

this in class and onstage. Edward fuses keen artisitic vision with deep understanding of the essentials of yoga practice.

Desiree Kongerod's web site: http://www.anactabove.com

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