9 Ben
Red Solar Skywalker
The Mind beyond all
Measure Power holds
Thought sends us
into Heaven or to Hell
One long enclosed in
Bars of Iron cold
When dreaming full
escapes his prison Cell
Whence exists our
Paradise eternal
Where Time and Space
lose all significance?
By transmuting
thoughts of Fear infernal
Into devotion’s
transcendental Dance
Worth more is
Vigilance than Sacrifice
Pre-requisite to
Life miraculous
Avoid all Fear while curbing Avarice
Thus will the Cosmos
all your Missions bless
Dreams manifest in
Synchronicity
When sacred Time
designs Reality.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Costumes by Judy Dearing
Judy Dearing (1940 – September 30, 1995) was an American costume designer, dancer, and choreographer. She is most well known for designing costumes for a wide range of theater and musical productions, including Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize winning drama "A Soldier's Play" and the 1976 stage adaptation of Ntozake Shange's book, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.
Biography
Judy Dearing grew up in Manhattan and graduated from City College of New York, majoring in mathematics and science. She began her performance arts career dancing with Miriam Makeba and acting with the Negro Ensemble Company. Her husband was John Parks, a dancer who collaborated with her on a number of dance productions.
Dearing was a resident designer for the Crossroads Theatre, the University of Texas Drama Department, the New Federal Theatre, and the Negro Ensemble Company, as well as for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She designed costumes for a number of regional theaters: Goodman Theatre, the Alliance Theatre, the Hartford Stage, the Guthrie Theatre, the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, GeVa Theatre, Asolo Theatre, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, the Egg, and the Goodspeed Opera House. In addition, Dearing was a professor of design at Howard University and resident designer at the University of Texas drama department.
Dearing was a recipient of nine AUDELCO Awards, a 1985 Obie Award and a 1988 Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Image Award. She won the Obie Award her for her World War II uniforms for Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize winning drama "A Soldier's Play." She died at New York Hospital in 1995 of acute pneumonia.
Productions
Theater
Judy Dearing was the costume designer for the following productions.
Swinging on a Star (original music revue, dedicated to Costume Designer: Judy Dearing, Oct 22, 1995 - Jan 13, 1996)
Having Our Say (original play, Apr 06, 1995 - Dec 31, 1995)
Shimada (original play, Apr 23, 1992 - Apr 25, 1992)
Once on This Island (original musical, Oct 18, 1990 - Dec 01, 1991)
Checkmates (original play, comedy, Aug 04, 1988 - Dec 31, 1988)
Death and the King's Horseman (original play, drama, Mar 01, 1987 - Mar 29, 1987)
The Babe (original play, solo, May 17, 1984 - May 20, 1984)
Trick (original play, comedy, Thriller, Feb 04, 1979 - Feb 11, 1979)
The Mighty Gents (original play, Apr 16, 1978 - Apr 23, 1978)
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (original play, Sep 15, 1976 - Jul 16, 1978)
The Poison Tree (original play, Jan 08, 1976 - Jan 11, 1976)
Lamppost Reunion (original play, Oct 16, 1975 - Dec 21, 1975)
Black Picture Show (original play, Jan 06, 1975 - Feb 09, 1975)
What the Wine-Sellers Buy (original play, Feb 14, 1974 - Mar 17, 1974
Dance
Dearing was the costume designer for the following productions at Alvin Ailey American Dance
Theater:
Nubian Lady
Blood Burning Moon
Inside
Style
Dearing's designs were celebrated for their authenticity. She developed a folkloric look for the 1990 production of Once on This Island, using printed kente cloth, Dutch cotton prints, raw silk, and chiffon with metallics. "A costume has to appear natural," Ms. Dearing said in an interview that year with The New York Times. “Every night, she added, ‘everything has to be set up to look realistic.'’” The Times article indicates that the authenticity of her World War II uniforms is what won her the Obie award for A Soldier's Play.
In the 2010 edition of Ntozake Shange's book, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, the author describes Dearing's costumes in the book's 1976-78 theater adaptation:
"The fluid dresses, designed by the late Judy Dearing, took on colors from the set design, imbuing each lady with a persona and each persona with a unique principle marking the journey of womanhood. The personal story of a woman became every woman, the solo voice became many. Each poem fell into its rightful place, a rainbow of colors, shapes, and timbres of voice, my solo instrument blossoming into a cosmic chamber ensemble."
In 1996, The Black Theatre Network established the biennial Judy Dearing Design Competition to encourage African American students of design.*
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Dearing
BEN
Kin 113: Red Solar Skywalker
I pulse in order to explore
Realizing wakefulness
I seal the output of space
With the solar tone of intention
I am guided by the power of universal water
I am a galactic activation portal
Enter me.
The art of projection is actually the creation of certain magnetic beams full of specific sets of information.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
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Sahasrara Chakra (Dali Plasma)
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