Inspiration

I find this piece exquisite: it is a casual outdoor patio performance with Yo Yo Ma on cello, and street dancer Charles Riley, aka Lil’ Buck, dancing ‘The Dying Swan’. Director Spike Jonze used his cell phone to record this interpretive performance of Camille Saint-Saens’ ‘The Swan’.

Yo Yo Ma & Lil Buck (Video)

This gorgeous video of a baby’s changing emotions as she listens to her Mother sing reminds me of what we as actors are trying to re-learn how to do: be fully present and allow emotions to pass through like weather formations…