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).

13 Days Dance Festival results Day4

Päivi Vettenranta, EMAIL:

On the water and in the water.

Also some in me.

I was listening Anne singing while waching so I had to name my big surounding water after her.

Johanna Amnéus, EMAIL:

SHaKy ShAkY...

Lotta O Claesson, EMAIL:

Regina Lund sends a Speech for Peace

Regina sends this to us from Copenhagen!

Thank you Regina, stay strong!

Copenhagen
29 oct 209


Dear Citizens of the Earth, Dear Peace Walkers!

I want to welcome you and thank all of you who dare to take action.
I want to thank all of you courageous, brave, beautiful people for walking for Peace today.
Today and every day.
Everywhere.
In any way.
I want to thank you for walking for peace, being in bed for peace, talking for peace, singing for peace, rolling your wheelchair for peace, laughing for peace, loving for peace.
Where ever you are.
Thank you.

The brave few of you walking and being present here today , I send you all my love. And more.
I hope and know that you will have a great time in Sweden and you will be well met by all the wonderful loving hearts that has come to share this experience together.
I also send love to those who has not yet dared to take action or who has not yet had the courage to chose peace.
They will all need are support.
We are all one and there is no us against them, there is only you and me and WE.

There is no more important thing to do right now than working for love, peace and happiness.
That is what you all here are doing today and I honor you and respect you deeply for this.

I also know from experience that it is one of the most provocative actions you can do working for Peace and Love and Happiness.
More provocative than if we all were to present a new technology for a new weapon, killing each other.
We are here today to change this.
And we will.
We WILL find actions that brings Peace to our beautiful Earth cause we LOVE her so much.
And we will do it.
It is important to focus on all the actions we wish to do when peace has arrived and do them NOW.
Do them NOW and peace will arrive much faster.
Peace WILL arrive.
We all believe this is possible.
That is why we are having fun together.
That is why we persist in love, peace and happiness.
Beacause we believe in Freedom .
Beacause we believe in Peace.
Beacuse we believe in LOVE.

When peace has arrived what is it we so much long to do?
With eachother?
With the Earth?

What you do today walking for peace will vibrate and spread and make good in all aspects of the Universe.
Never forget that every loving action you make will give resonance to every flower, every animal, very human and every living creature in this Universe.
Never doubt the power of your loving action!

Actions of love, compassion and peace are very urgent.
Very urgent indeed.
Thank you for understanding this..
What you do today is urgent and important, think nothing less.
It is not in vain.
It is not in vain for our children.
We do this for our children and all those who have been here before us and those who are here now and those who are yet to come.

Today and every day lets be in the service of love, peace, freedom, forgiveness, tolerance and happiness.
Today and every day , let us all walk for peace.
Every step we take.
Let every step be a kiss.
Kiss the Earth with your feet and walk in peace.
What you are doing today is very , very important for our children and their children.
It is very , very important for the Earth.
YOU are important for the Earth and for the whole Universe.
Never ever forget this!


I welcome you to the country of Sweden. I welcome you and I thank you.
I am so sorry I cannot be with you physically today , my presence is contracted and needed in Copenhagen, Denmark today where I am performing a very brave play together with Asylum seekers, a peace work also much needed and issues needed to be brought into further light, but I am with you in soul and heart as well.

I am with you and I thank you from all of my heart.

We all do this work together where ever we are!

Thank you for manifesting all this beauty with your presence here today and thank you for sharing the exitement of living life in Peace and Love!

I admire your bravery and your persistence.
I admire your courage.

Welcome to Sweden.

I love you!


Regina Lund

13 Days Dance Festival - day 5 of 6

Instructions day 3
dance and report

10: find - morning

go find a clover

and send us

measurements and

weight of all

possible parts of the

clover

11: send - daylight

send something you can´t count

With love! mail: bedin.sthlm2009@gmail.com

Fight for Peace Game V - utter humiliation

So, yesterday when we played the test game of Casino I swept her easily. She musta been worried.

Today she made new rules. And she won. So it's now 3 Andrea and 2 Daniel.

No, I am not bitter.

With a little help from my friends

We are 5 days into our Bed-in. We have a lot of ppl to thank, not only the ppl you can find in our list of sponsors to the right but of course also ppl behind those logos and ppl without logos. Yep, those exists,

I'd like to mention Åke! Thanks for the flashlights that will be used at tomorrows concert which starts in the Clarion lobby at 21.30. We will be performing a few songs and twinkle into the skies, or roof at Clarion.

Also, here's to Sarah! You are Capten Eo. Without her no sound, and no food. The mixer we're using and the microphone are hers. She also introduced me to her friend Mathias, that has lent me the 49 keys keyboard.

And here's to JuanP, Pelle and Jonas. You guys rock.


Peace!

The Lost Interview - John Lennon and Yoko Ono for Life Magazine 1969

Our Friend Joan Athey, author from Canada got up early this morning to share a very special moment with us.
She called us before heading off to work and we spent just under one hour on Skype.

Since we have Slow Motion Day today everything we do takes extra time... so there, the talk took a very long time

What she wanted to share with us today was an interview from back in 1969, an article written by the journalist Charles Childs, still alive and well in New York, written for Life Magazine. He met up with John and Yoko and talked to them about their Bed-in and their views on society, war, money and art. It is an un-published article and got pushed aside because of articles surrounding the Vietnam War - or so the story goes. I am Sure Joan can tell us more about the history of this lost article.

So there she was, Joan on our screen and our livefeed taking on the pat as Charles Childs as we worked our way through the article. Andrea read John's answers, I did Yoko's.

We want to thank Joan for sharing this very rare moment with us, we are tremendously thankful for your generosity.

Peace!

Spinoff Effect of Slow Motion Day

So, right now we've spent almost 7hrs in Slow Motion Mode. Starting off this morning Linnea M called and wanted to check out if our slow motion talking indeed was slow motion. She recorded us and speeded it up. You be the judge.

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!".

13 Days Dance Festival - results Day 3

Mari Solberg, SKYPE:

Jeg målte horisonten.

Päivi Vettaranta, EMAIL:

the task with boiling water:

laitoin riisiä tulelle. liekki oli väärä. haistoin uuden tuoksun.

valutin vettä pannulle. sihahdus, kuplia ja höyryä.

tiskasin.

Kaptenoklownika, EMAIL:

"Too many instructions"

Emelie Johansson, EMAIL:

bild av dold horisont. byggnader som blockerar vägen och människor som hindrar min promenad till denna horisont.

kokande vatten.

dansande bubblor. tankepaus. välgörande för täppt näsa. leder troligen till mer dans imorgon då täppan börjar lösas upp.

Stina Nyström, MMS:

en horisont, - perfekt i sin längd.

Lotta O Claesson, EMAIL/CHAT:

Vet du hur långt det är till horisonten?

Nä.

Lika långt som tillbaka.

13 Days Dance Festival - day 4 of 6

Instructions day 3
dance and report

8: count - afthernoon

Count the clouds

name them

9: Shake - afthernoon

go shake hands with as many

persons as possible, write

down their names. try in the

elevator, tubem, escalator,

street, toilet,on top of a

mountain, in the dark, daydream,

on the clouds, etc. make it a

nice handshake by holding a flower

in your hand,perfume or

wash you hand, etc

Good luck!

remember the email adress: bedin.sthlm2009@gmail.com

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 II

Dance Piece for Peace II

Music: "Raga Kausi Kanhra" by Ravi Shankar
Danced and choreographed by Daniel Andersson & Andrea Csaszni Rygh

We spent 4 hours in brown paperbags. We also performed this dance 3 times during the day. One of the time we performed it for the Base Team of the marches in The World March for Peace who were in Savonlinna, Finland with Juha.

It was a very intense experience. Out of this world really.

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.

Fight for Peace Games IV - pool on a bed?

I can't say it was enjoyable at all. She kept on moving around balls and was bickering the whole time. Anyways - Andrea won.
It wasn't honorable in any shape or form, considering the sloping green and the itsy bitsy tiny weenie setup. I do wish I would have won but I will be back tomorrow.

Standings:
Daniel 2
Andrea 2

Game is definitely heating up. Sob.

Letters of peace! three more letters have been written.

Each day we send 3 letters to different persons.
Our letters contain instructional art from the book Grapefruit by Yoko Ono.
We choose them by shifting through the book fast and having the other saying: STOP followed by a number - page and piece on page. Today and yesterday we wrote to:

26th of Oct 2009, Monday
1: Tobias Billström - Line Piece; Tobbe got the almost too perfect instruction Erase lines.
2: Alan Jonson - Tape Piece IV; God luck!
3: Siv Jensen - Collecting Piece II; Its gonna keep her busy for a while.

Peace Fingers at 19.00!

We've been told we haven't demonstrated any skills in the "Peace Fingers" area. Tune in for our Skype-conversation with Joan Athey at around 19.00 and I am sure it will be remedied.!

International Bed-in part 3!

 

13 DAYS DANCE FESTIVAL results Day 2

Karen E Rygh, SMS:

Veldig bra... Jeg puster både tidlig og seint... og bruker telepati. :)

Men kanskje mine telepatiske evner ikke veldig gode... Siden du måtte spørre :)

KaptenoKlownik, EMAIL:

"Juliette Gets Wet", festivalbidrag 2

Päivi Vettenranta, EMAIL:

4.
I imagined the moon to the place where I know the sun sets. Tried to draw a circle around it on the grey sky. On top of evaporated water and floating particles. Big circle closer to horizon and another one up on the sky. Trying to keep the same size. Knowing that moon is the same even it looks smaller up on the sky.

Johanna Amnéus, EMAIL:

Hejja hejja!

Lotta Orava Claesson, EMAIL:
öandligt återkommande evigt, vattnet , vårt vatten är det samma som alltid funnits, samma vatten kommer det att vara sen, nu å då

Stina Nyström EMAIL/MMS:

Ljusdal-Ånge-Östersund

Idag har jag rest genom landet norrut. Stannade mellan Ljusdal och Ånge och tittade upp mot himlen och ritade en cirkel. Vände mig mot nordväst. Ca. 5 meter i diametern. Marken var knölig och himlen otvivelakligen grå. Det kändes fint. Framme i Östersund besöktes en fontän, dock avstängd för vintern. Kändes tomt, kallt och mörkt. Detta finns på film, men jag får öva mig på mina tekniska prylar tills imorgon, idag blir det stillbilder på mms istället. Kommer inom kort.

Stina

13 Days Dance Festival - day 3 of 6

Instructions day 3
dance and report

6: watch - in the evening

have you seen the horizon lately?
go see a horizon.
measure it from where you stand
and let us know the length

7: watch - 8 pm

boil water and watch until it
evaporates


Good luck!

(Remember the email; bedin.sthlm2009@gmail.com)