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BLOOM. She is descending. December 2014

BLOOM. SHE IS DESCENDING was produced in its fullest incarnation as an installation and series of performances from December 19 - 21, 2014 at FiveMyles Gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. A totally immersive environment incorporating sculpture, ritual objects, video and sound installation, and puppetry set the stage for three nights of performances, culminating in a closing night performance on the Winter Solstice.

The sculptural installation, created by Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith and Jessica Scott, used clothing and objects from Lindsay’s personal archive to create an immersive world for the audience to explore. Video installations, created by Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith and Rebecca Ardnt, wove together footage of Lindsay’s movement with images from the symbolic and natural worlds and were projected onto various surfaces throughout the environment. Ambient soundscapes, created by Caroline Yes, were looped in tandem with the video projections, creating overlapping sonic environments throughout the installation.

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BLOOM. SHE IS DESCENDING at Prospect New Orleans, October 2014

BLOOM. SHE IS DESCENDING toured to New Orleans in October 2014 to preview the show for Prospect New Orleans. The production featured a multi-media installation incorporating video, puppetry, and plant life along with a recorded soundscape. There was a performance on November 1, 2014 featuring Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith and Sarah Lafferty moving through a cycle of growth and decay in tandem with a video and sound installation by Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith and Caroline Yes. 

The installation was on view from October 25 - December 6, 2014 as a part of the group show “With Light, With Love” presented by The Tigermen Den for Prospect New Orleans P.3+.

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Ankeresse x Radiant Heart

Ankeresse x Radiant Heart Acupuncture offer a sonic meditation designed to awaken the channels in your subtle body to love!

Binaural beats in the key of the heart resonate with the drone of Tibetan Singing Bowls attuned to the Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus and Throat Chakras. Chimes and strings of brass bells awaken the Third Eye and Crown Chakras as seed rattles coil up from the root and shake, rattle, and roll through the ether. The sound of each bell activates subliminal affirmations embedded in the track that are designed to awaken the chakras connected to love, creativity, abundance, sexuality and relationship.

Listen on headphones for the most immersive meditation and let the love in!

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Bloom. She is descending. July 2014

BLOOM. SHE IS DESCENDING is an ongoing exploration of puppeteer and bodyworker Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith’s lived experience of ALS. In this iteration, performed at Dixon Place in NYC on July 31, 2014, Lindsay partnered with Misha Braun-Wisse in a dance that took her back through moments of sexual and physical awakening and into a present of alchemized awareness within her changing physical state. Dresses from Lindsay’s past came to life as they transformed into flowers at the hands of designer Jessica Scott and puppeteer Sarah Lafferty. A sonic atmosphere of growth and decay was created and performed by Caroline Yes and Christopher Spanninga using the electronic manipulation of objects from nature.

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FLOWN at the Frieze Art Fair, Mother's Day 2014

This Mother's Day, FLOWN will be performing as a part of Naama Tsabar's piece Without at the Frieze Art Fair on Randall's Island, an architectural intervention turned musical festival curated by Mindy Abovitz and Tom Tom Magazine. Tsabar has removed the floor from a booth inside the fair and used it to create an outdoor stage that will feature a mini-music festival comprised of underground bands with female percussionists, thus activating the space outside the confines of the fair tent and leaving an empty space inside.

FLOWN offers our performance on this stage as a testament to the presence of the goddess at the intersecting crossroads of birth and death, presence and absence, joy and sorrow, grief and love. AKA my mom died a year ago and Margot might go into labor on stage.

Read more about it here. 

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Fire Ceremony for Release and Manifestation, San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua

Everyone stood and cast their sigils into the fire, some silent, some shouting, all grateful, all beautiful. Gonzalo went last, riding his piece of driftwood like a broomstick and shouting ABRACADABRA as he threw it into the flames. The driftwood burned hot and fast and sparks and sand danced around us as we sang songs from childhood in rounds, the wind carrying our voices out to sea. Well the ocean waves may roll And the stormy winds may blow We poor sailors go skipping o'er the top While the landlubbers lie down below below below While the landlubbers lie down below

Find the full ritual here.