Dance Piece for Peace V - "Slow Motion Day" on YouTube!

This is "Dance Piece for Peace V" - a part of "Slow Motion Day" day 5 of 7. We spent 12 hrs talking and moving in slow-motion. It was more a internal slow-motion than anything.

"Dance Piece for Peace V" is the X-mas dance. Merry X-mas! War is Over!

This day we also read the lost Life Magazine interview from 1969 by Charles Childs with John & Yoko. Joan Athey, author from Canada, wanted to share this public world premiere of the interview with us and we spent 50 minutes reading it with her live over Skype. Andrea read the part of John and Daniel the part of Yoko.
You can find the full interview over at Bambuser.

Merry X-mas (War is Over)
Music: John Lennon

Dance Piece for Peace II - "Bagism Day" on YouTube!

This is "Dance Piece for Peace II" - a part of "Bagism Day" day 2 of 7. We spent 4 hrs with papersbags over our heads and danced an encore for The World March for Peace's Base Team staying in Savonlinna, Finland, over Skype later that night.

Music: Raga Kausi Kanhra by Ravi Shankar

The World March for Peace

Two members of the Base Team. After their visit to our room they flew heads over heels into a cab and directly to the airport for their flight heading to Copenhagen. They will arrive in Punta de Vacas in Argentine the 2nd of Jan 2010. We never had time to offer them coffee during the visit but we did sing for them.

Dance Piece for Peace IV on YouTube

This is "Dance Piece for Peace IV" as performed during "Conflict Day" the 4th day of the 7 days Bed-in for Peace. A day of inner-conflict, 11hrs of "Give Peace a Chance" and Bob.

"God" by John Lennon.

Give Peace a Chance - Joan says hi!

Joan sent us this picture from her book "Give Peace a chance" - get it over at Amazon. During the week she would call us up and read an essay out of it. This was one of the highpoints of each day.

Two of the stories she has in the book she never got around to but she told us we could hear them some other time - feels reassuring!

One thing that happens during a Bed-in is that your perception of time gets altered in a very radical way. We have to admit we did plan on keeping ourselves busy during the week and busy we were, so busy we didn't have time to post stuff here on the blog as frequently as we would have wanted to - but come to think of it, it was probably due to that same phenomena, the perception of time. Perhaps we moved very, very slowly inside. It is a good feeling anyways, slowing down is a good thing.

Here is one of the original photos Joan sent us. She sent us more, and some real gems... but we can't publish them here. They are NOT out there yet.

Photograph: Gerry Deiter

13 Days Dance Festival results Day 6

Stina Nyström, MMS:

Dancing for Peace

Lotta O Claesson, EMAIL:

vått,
blått,
varmt,
lite rädd för hajar,
framme vid ön,
sand mellan tårna,
varmt,
sol,
tropiskt å bara vila.....
love, peace and understanding,
Lotta

Dance Piece for Peace VI

Dance Piece for Peace VI
Music: "I´m only sleeping" - Lennon/McCartney

Danced and choreographed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea C Rygh

Sixth Day - "Peace March Day" turned "Failure Day" turned "Total Magical Night".

Day started off with technical issues, server going down, cameras acting up but we were still in good spirits. We waited for the marchers. Day was an utter technical failure. And then marchers stood us up. Luckily we had plan a little concert and we also got a chance to perform this Dance Piece for Peace VI in front of an live audience.

"Imagine" by John Lennon on You Tube

Final day of our Bed-in the Base Team form Thea World March for Peace and Non--violence visited the room.
We had a talk and we sang them a song.

This is "Imagine" by John Lennon. Performed by Bed-in for Peace Stockholm 2009.

Dance Piece for Peace VII

Dance Piece for Peace VII
Music: "All you need is love" - Lennon/McCartney

Danced and choreographed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea C Rygh

Seventh Day - Final day! "Fulfillment Day"! We danced a dance of bubbles and sign language. Simple and wonderful.

Dance Piece for Peace VI on YouTube

Here is "Dance Piece for Peace VI" - a part of "Peace March Day" day 6 of 7.

Dance Piece for Peace VII on You Tube

Here is "Dance Piece for Peace VII" - a part of "Fulfillment Day" day 7 of 7.

For Joan Athey - We Love You.

You taught us how, now we can do the peace-fingers fluently. True.

Peace, Love & Joan!

Kulturnyheterna - LOVE, PEACE & TELEVISION!

We made the Swedish public service television cultural-news - Kulturnyheterna!

On our 7th day in bed we got a call from the Swedish public service company Sveriges Television asking about how to pronounce Andrea's surname. Andrea repeated the pronunciation a few times and, BAM! -Petra nailed it. Much too our enjoyment in the room. Must say the spirit has gone up some.

The short but too us very rewarding mentioning can be seen again tonight at 22.40 on channel SVT 1.

You can watch it here until the 6th of Nov.

Here's a pic of Petra and us in the background. Yep, the quality is subpar but click the image and you will see the actual song we are playing.

Peace! It ain't too hard to sell! It took us 7 days to get publicity. Big SMILE!

13 Days Dance Festival results Day5

Lotta O Claesson, EMAIL:


Avsaknad av dagsljus går inte att mäta

Päivi Vettenranta, EMAIL:

Uncountables
my love
to you

Fight for Peace Games VI : re-play

Ok, so Andrea beat me again. I even forced a re-play on her because I found indescrepencies in the video. She admitted to have played foul and accepted the re-play. I can't tell you how lucky she was. I left to chance which colors to use and she took advantage like a shark.

She got my Secret code in 5. I got hers at 8.

Don't think we will need to play the last of the games. She is plain better.

This concludes the Fight for Peace Games. It's Andrea 4 1/2 and Daniel 2.

She won. That's all.

And out.

Dance Piece for Peace III on YouTube

This is "Dance Piece for Peace III" as performed during "Flower Power Day". Day 3 out of 7 of Bed-in Stockholm 2009.

Bed-in Stockholm on YouTube

We are now starting to upload videos to YouTube so you can re-live our Bed-in.

Here is the first clip.

This is "Oh, Yoko" by John Lennon.
Performed as part of Bed-in for Peace Concert at "World March for Peace Day", we renamed it "Failure Day" because of utter technical failures throughout the day. But in the end, it was a great day.

13 Days Dance Festival - day 6 of 6!

Instructions day 6
dance and report

12: Swim - dreamtime

Swim in yur dream

as far as

you can until you

find an Island.

Tell us results.

13: future time

Color yourself

wait for the spring to

come

let us know when it comes

future luck!

mail: bedin.sthlm2009@gmail.com

Fight for Peace Games VI - Andrea WINS it ALL

It's over. There was nothing I could do. I even admitted to cheating - or maybe that was the reason I finally had to cave in. She beat me. She won. She beat me in that funny looking Master Mind type of game she had - it wasn't even a REAL Master Mind.

I SO couldn't concentrate on how to solve it - the colours were just too weird. My head was just shut down. And yes, I even tried to cheat. But since it was caught on tape I finally had to admit to cheating. Good thing, because I couldn't even remember the colours I peeked at.

Ok, so here it is. It is Andrea 4 and Daniel 2. She has got her 4 out of 7 and I cannot beat her now. All I can do is to try and win the last game to even it out some. I will try. And this time I'll pick the game - oh, wait. Think I'll pick Chess.

Joan Athey read us this poem

One of the highpoints of every day has become the time when Joan Athey calls to say "hi" and share with us some of her many stories. Today she also read us a poem. Here it is:

____________________________

From Joan Athey:

As Andrea and Daniel are highly skilled in movement, I thought they would especially enjoy this poem.

Moving Through The Mystery
by Peter Trower Victoria, BC.Canada 1963

We are moving through the mystery
in a rush of rented mornings
where conundrums of existence
dance across the window awnings,
Why is which? and what is whither?
cry the voices in the crawl space
underneath the floors of meaning
and beyond this no-at-all-place.

There is no vocuabulary
for the thoughts below the surface...
distant particles of answer
from some unimagined orifice
The reflections of the psyche
fall upon unknown waters...
shatter outward in to ripples
at the stones of the distorters.

Three time death is five time nothing...
there are footprints on the rainbow
and the ape and the professor
down the same long-trodden lane go.
There is no defense in dogma..
there is no escape in history ...
we are moving through the movement ..
we are moving through the mystery.