PERFORMING ARTS
The Shanghai Acrobats from the People’s Republic of China will perform their highly skilled routines at the Sunrise Theatre in Fort Pierce.
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SEASON OF THE ARTS
Performing arts
promise great season
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Productions will take audiences from the sights
and sounds of Tibet to the streets of Chicago
BY SUSAN BURGESS
The performing arts — plays, all kinds of music — are
always excellent on the Treasure Coast, but this year
brings some great performances that everyone will
want to see.
Imagine Tibetan monks dropping grains of colored sand
from long tubes onto an intricate geometric design to create
an image symbolizing world peace. Now imagine those
monks performing sacred music and masked dances in Stuart
as part of their Mystical Arts of Tibet tour for world healing.
Their rare style of music is called multiphonic, with each
singer simultaneously intoning a single note of a chord.
After they perform at Stuart’s Lyric Theatre in February,
they’ll create the colored sand design known as a mandala,
which is a spiritual symbol representing the universe. A location,
date and time for the mandala project will be posted on
the theater’s website.
“The mandala is used as a tool for re-consecrating the earth
and its inhabitants,” theater Executive Director Kia Fontaine
says. “The sand mandala will be swept apart during a closing
ceremony and half the sand will be distributed to the audience,
while the remainder is carried to the St Lucie River.”
The monks say the river will carry the healing blessing of
the sand to the ocean, where it will spread throughout the
world for planetary healing. >>