SCIARTMET | Performers

PERFORMERS:

Unstructured Light is a multidisciplinary theatre group. It was founded on the concept of searching for the common factors between song, music, dance, drama and poetry through self exploration and self development techniques. These include meditation, yoga, bio-energy training, group dynamics and communication skills. The performances which evolved were a result of the fusion between these performing arts and higher awareness training. The group has evolved further by integrating visual arts and other technologies such as lighting, sound, computer graphics and lasers in its developmental process. The emphasis is on producing events which create a mode of entry for artists and the audience to experience new dimensions of awareness in performance.

The result is a space where an inner transformation may happen both for the artist and the audience. Unstructured Light collaborates with guest artists, commissions for organisations and other groups. We continue to explore new horizons beyond normal limits to expand our scope and public reach. Our aim is to attract a wide spectrum of interest groups, ages and people of different backgrounds. We are looking forward to meeting or collaborating with new artists and audiences in our future ventures. Thank you.

Unstructured Light:

Unstructured Light are performing in this Evening Performance of "Journey with Rumi" to end the SCIARTMET Conference between 7.00 -- 8.00 p.m.

Tickets:

If you are attending the full conference: this performance is included as part of your ticket.

Tickets are also available if you are not attending the full conference. Click here to book for this performance only.

To view Unstructured Light website:
www.Unstructuredlight.com

UL Biographies:

Konstantin Pavlidis | Director - Narrator - Musician

Konstantin Pavlidis is the founder and artistic director of Unstructured Light, which was established in 1990. His artistic career began initially as a dancer. Subsequently he became a teacher / choreo- grapher and now works also with the voice in classical singing and healing through sound. He became interested in exploring altered states of consciousness and researching paranormal experiences for the purpose of raising Self awareness within the performing arts. He has studied and practised as a therapist, healer and psychic for the past 30 years, drawing from Occidental, Caucasian, Oriental and Aboriginal traditions. He has incorporated this knowledge into the development of both the artists and the works they produce, leading to the various performances presented by Unstructured Light.

Aniko Nagy | Dancer - Singer

Aniko Nagy has been performing with Unstructured Light since 1996 and she is both a dancer and vocalist with the group. She comes from a long lineage of dancers, (fourth generation from her maternal and third generation from her paternal), and so had begun her dance training at a young age. She worked predominantly as a contemporary dancer with companies in the USA, Germany, and the UK. She graduated from university at the OSU with a BFA in Dance and now also teaches yoga and works in energy medicine as a therapist. Aniko has evolved her own unique dance style which has developed through the foundation training of Unstructured Light.

Pete Townsend | Musician - Narrator

Pete Townsend is a audio-producer/audio-engineer multi-media designer [see SCIARTMET] and musician. He has recorded artists ranging from Ernie Wise to Sir John Gielgud and specialises in ‘Spoken Word’. He is a flute player and also plays the Javanese kacapi. Pete has his own audio/media design company and has recorded many Audio CDs for the English flautist William Bennett. He has also recorded ensembles and orchestras including the Russian Festival Orchestra. He has been a member of Unstructured Light since 1991 and has performed and recorded in many countries. He also teaches meditation through sound.

Rollin Rachele | Musician - Singer

For over 25 years Rollin Rachele has studied and performed a wide variety of vocal styles and music genres. Since the mid 1980s Rollin has been active internationally as a teacher and performer of overtone singing and has published a most com- prehensive manual and audio CD to accompany his teaching technique. In the early 1990s he studied Indian classical vocal music with Ustad Mohammad Sayeed Khan. He has been integrating his talents with Unstructured Light since 1991.

Jason O’Brien | Musician

Jason O’Brien has studied Indian classical music for 9 years in India and in the UK A disciple of Shirish Kumar, he is a tabla player but also plays bansuri (classical bamboo fl ute) and various other instruments. He has performed extensively in South Asian theatre with sitarist Pandit Baluji Shrivastav. Jason has worked with several Indian classical musicians including Ashok Kumar Metta (bansuri) and Sukdev Prasad Misra (Hindustani violin). Currently he runs and performs regularly at ‘Apsara’, an intimate venue for Indian and World Music performances based in Brighton.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi:
Rumi is one of the great spiritual masters and poetical geniuses of mankind and was the founder of the Mawlawi Sufi order, a leading mystical brotherhood of Islam.

Rumi was born in Wakhsh (Tajikistan) under the administration of Balkh in 30 September 1207 to a family of learned theologians. Escaping the Mongol invasion and destruction, Rumi and his family traveled extensively in the Muslim lands, performed pilgrimage to Mecca and finally settled in Konya, Anatolia, then part of Seljuk Empire. When his father Bahaduddin Valad passed away, Rumi succeeded his father in 1231 as professor in religious sciences. Rumi 24 years old, was an already accomplished scholar in religious and positive sciences.

Mathnavi or Mathnavi-e Maanavi is the best known work of Rumi consisting of 24,660 couplets in seven books. Rumi himself defined his work as a work of destruction, destruction of the worldly for the sake of embracing the Divine. He warns the reader in advance to be prepared to let go of everything:

He was introduced into the mystical path by a wandering dervish, Shamsuddin of Tabriz. His love and his bereavement for the death of Shams found their expression in a surge of music, dance and lyric poems, `Divani Shamsi Tabrizi'. Rumi is the author of six volume didactic epic work, the `Mathnawi', called as the 'Koran in Persian' by Jami, and discourses, `Fihi ma Fihi', written to introduce his disciples into metaphysics.

If there is any general idea underlying Rumi's poetry, it is the absolute love of God. His influence on thought, literature and all forms of aesthetic expression in the world of Islam cannot be overrated.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi died on December 17, 1273. Men of five faiths followed his bier. That night was named Sebul Arus (Night of Union). Ever since, the Mawlawi dervishes have kept that date as a festival.

PROGRAMME:

A Journey with Rumi:
The Sufi Mystic and poet, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi was born September 1207.
To commemorate his 800th birthday, UNESCO has decreed 2007 as the International Year of Rumi.
Our journey takes you to the essence of the Sufi mystical poet through Dance, Music, Song and his poetry with new translations created specially for this event translated by Nazia Shariat/Konstantin Pavlidis and performed by Unstructured Light a multi – disciplinary theatre company. A unique fusion creating a theatrical experience to remember.

_______________________________________
| Top | Return to Introduction | Register Now |

Book now for the RUMI Performance | 7.00 p.m.