#shadowtender

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What is the Jungian Shadow, anyway, and why is it relevant? Here is a short new video of Shadow Tender’s artistic director, Natasha Kolosowsky, explaining & contextualizing these things + some art and dancing.

You can learn more about Shadow Tender here: http://igg.me/at/shadowtender

In brief, it’s a performance and workshop series that asks how humans create and interact with the monstrous within ourselves and in others, and seeks to provide the tools and inspiration to meet our shadows with compassion rather than fear, shame, or rejection.  We’re examining these ideas through the lens of fantasy, theater, wearable sculpture, and movement, with inspiration ranging from neuroscience to alchemical philosophy. We’ve been invited to perform and teach at the World Stage Design festival this July in Taiwan, Taipei - one of the largest international performance design festivals in the world!  But we’ll need your help to get there!  We’re only about 26% of the way to our funding goal, and we only have a few days left of our crowdfunding campaign!

Enjoy and please feel free to share <3

[birdskullstudios]

SHADOW TENDER IS ON THE POSTER for SCENOFEST  - the performance program of the entire World Stage Design festival! The poster is up in Taiwan right now. Wha…?!! That's Aurelia Cohen and Maria in the bottom image. What an honor....now we have to go!

Speaking of which, we are just past 25% of our total goal for funding with LESS THAN a week to go in our campaign. If we are able to get to get to at least 45% of the full sum, that may be enough to get us to the festival. 

We have been blown away by the generosity of our communities thus far — thank you SO MUCH for supporting us and believing in Shadow Tender. I cannot begin to express how much it means to be able to share these ideas with you and to hear affirmation that yes, this work is necessary, timely, and welcome in the world.

Can we do it? Can we actually make it to Taiwan?! As we near the final, deciding week of our Indiegogo campaign, we are working extra hard to reach out far and wide to encourage people to donate and make Shadow Tender a reality. ​ Our whole team is giving it absolutely everything we can, but we still have a ways to go.

Will you help us spread the word in the coming week? Its as simple as sending a short note or sharing the campaign link with somebody you think may resonate with our work -- every little bit counts.

....After all, we are already on the poster : )

Thank you for being part of this adventure with us!

-Natasha and Maria

[birdskullstudios]

Mask prototypes for the Shadow Tender project, directed by Natalya Kolosowsky. Shadow Tender looks at the psychological mechanisms of demonization at the root of extreme nationalistic policy and personal fears through the medium of theater, wearable sculpture, and movement. 

Our masks and costumes seek to externalize our inner anxieties, doubts, and struggles--we can move in them, face them when worn by another, and hopefully, find healthy ways to reintegrate with them, free of both wallowing or blind rejection.  

Please visit www.shadowtender.com to learn more. 

Leatherwork by Lyraphic Leather. Photography by Shane Phillips