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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dance Piece for Peace V

Dance Piece for Peace V

Music: Happy Xmas (War is Over) by John Lennon / Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band and The Harlem Community Choir

Danced and Choreographed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea C Rygh

The 5th installment of Dance Piece for Peace had childhood x-mas spirit and happy eyes. We performed it during our "Slow Motion Day" - It was saying: Imagine Peace and dance (to the tune).

Dance Piece for Peace IV

Dance Piece for Peace IV

Music: "God", John Lennon

Choreographed and performed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea C Rygh

Fourth day. It was a very hard day. First off the ambience in the room was less than friendly. We were both pretty much at each others throat the whole day. Times of questioning oneself are trying times.

So, Andrea performed "God" by John Lennon w/ myself on keyboard fill-ins. Then I did a homage to the Bobs (yes, both to the original one and the one in red pants in Russia). Joan Athey called it a "naked and honest rendition in Lennonesque spirit". We do not know what to say but, "thx!".

Dance Piece for Peace III

Dance Piece for Peace III

Music: "I am the Walrus" - Lennon/McCartney

Danced and choreographed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea C Rygh

Third day - happy day! "Flower Power Day"!

We performed a flower-drenched little dance-piece that oozed indulgence. It was glowing down to the last Ying and Yang.

Out of body experience.

Dance Piece for Peace I-IV

So we are 4 dances down our list of Dance Pieces for Peace.

We would like to upload each of the dances seprately but will have to wait until we solve a minor video issue. These files are huge, 12hrs long and round about 40GB in size.

But if you stay around and are patient we will post them to our YouTube profile:

http://www.youtube.com/user/bedinsthlm2009

Soon.

Dance Piece for Peace I - NEW DANCES everyday at 16.30

So we performed the first dance in our series of bed-dances - we will redo it at 19.00.

Dance Piece for Peace I
Music: Julia by Lennon/McCartney
Performed by John Lennon
Danced and choreographed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea Csaszni Rygh

We will perform this again tonight at 19.00.

Everyday between the 25th - 30th Oct we will perform a NEW Dance PIece for Peace. We will do this at 16.30 - EVERY DAY.

Every day at 16.30!

Dance Piece for Peace I & II - down and rdy!

Each day during our 7 day Bed-in for Peace we will present a new dance-piece. They will be around 5 min long and performed in or around the bed (duh!).

Perhaps when considering we will be broadcasted 12*7 hours = 84 hours during the Bed-in, then the total running time of the dance-choreographies amounting to 35 minutes, may look like "very tiny, smallish potatoes" but maybe then it's even more important that we get them right. Just right. It is a possibility.

We've been hard at work conceptualizing each day of the Bed-in and now, when we feel pep and happy about where we find ourselves in the process, we've felt ready to move on to the dance-floor. Thus, after a few days, we can safely say we got "Dance Piece for Peace" I & II down. 5 to go! Easy peasy and tons of fun.

So what can be said about the two pieces? They are both like bon bons, with wings. Or like sweet apples with acidic travels into bliss.

UPDATE 8 Oct: 13 Days Dance Festival in 6 days!

Ok, så now we are well beyond the 100 mark... counting at what rate the people coming in we will have over 200 come Saturday. It is looking to be truly amazing. Thanks all!

Further I am happy to report that the work with the choreographies for "Dance Piece for Peace I-VII" are coming along frickn' fantastic. Whoot!

We have a few kinks considering a few things pertaining our room but hope to solve them ASAP. We should all learn to speak lingo...

Press conference and The World March takes off

Yesterday, the 2nd of Oct The World March started from Wellington, New Zealand.

They've been on the road for one day now and we are psyched to welcome them to Sweden come the 29th of Oct.

Yesterday we also participated in the press conference held by the The World March co-ordinator in Sweden. Andrea did a awesome job in relaying what we are up to that among other things includes:

• 7 days in bed for peace at Clarion hotel Södermalm, Stockholm

• 12hrs a day live video-streaming on the Internet of the event.

• Hosting of Yoko's 13 Days Dance Festival for Peace from our beds

• Hosting of a Mass Bed-in the 29th of Oct from our beds

• Each day a new Dance Piece for Peace

• Theme days starting with "Opening Day", what else?

There will be a lot more going on during the week but it is a good idea to make a long lists short on a blog. Or so they tell me.

What we missed out on yesterday was Perfect Performance Inspirational shock taking place over at Dansens Hus. We were told it was a very cool event. Sad I missed it but some has to work. Really!

Peace!

New participants

If you feel isolated and want to meet a lot of people you know, a good tip is to place yourself outside copacabana. I had a very nice meeting with my dear friend Sepidar and now Astrid, Pontus(in the picture), Sepidar and a lot of other people has signed up to participate in the Dance Peace Festival. Wicked! The list is getting longer. But we have a lot to do. Sepidar will also show our Bed-in live streamed at her exhibition at the gallery Hangups.

Over.

Peace and Love

Mediating the Bed-in

So we plan on mediating the whole Bed-in, save for a visit from the World Marchers for Peace that will drop by for lunch and a chat the 29th of Oct.

Did I mention it is between the 24th and the 31st of Oct? Ok, maybe I did, but there it goes. Those are the dates. Anyone interested in doing something, anything, participating in some way, get in touch with us.

Besides training today I managed to squeeze in a short visit to a newly opened coffee place at St Paulsgatan. And wouldn't you know, I just happened to run into an old colleague that just happened to know ppl in the right places when it comes to broadcasting the event. Let's just hope it all works out, then you can follow our daily dance-in-bed-endeavours every morning while having breakfast. Imagine that, having breakfast, contemplating Peace and getting a piece of dance for peace while sipping the morning Yirgacheffe. Life is good.

The visit at the coffeee-place ended on a minor though since I realized I had zilch in cash and they do not, still - which I think is kewl, accept credit-cards. No coffee for you mister!

And no Västerbottentoast either.