date: Saturday, July 23, 2005 @ 7:30 pm
title: Rapture..
Rapture..
SAJC dance production.
Friday and Saturday. Two nights in a row.
@ Kallang Threater
Dancers.
Choreographers.
Alumins.
Audiences.
Red.
Black.
White.
Skin tone.
The repercussion of MTV.
The ticket of sexual liberity.
The reason to capture the media arts for Jesus.
As the curtain swayed along in pitch dark.
My mind was anticipating a good performance.
My heart was deeply contemplating.
Sexplotation.
MTV on stage.
The strength of red-black contrasting.
The first item was though Gothic art of dance bleeding with the contemporary music ringing upon my deafening ears. Memories of Count Dracula. Vampire of the Gothic empire. Stereotype dark black with the significant blood red twin spots. Sensual effect.
The inner being was tremendously offended by the acts of the dance world. Purity seemed to be a conservative paradigm. However, in the name of freedom to express one's inner thoughts has its backlash that contributes to the fall of man. Not to say, the consequences of the losing feminine to sex.
Desire to be feminine is not the issue but being sexual is the cause.
Another trend that sparked my observative mind is the dressing of the moving being. As I would say that the degree of flesh exposed is related to the conviction of the chereographer. Maturity in arts is the product of the art itself. An artist is an art of artistically inclined being.
Every exposure brings an experience. Postive or negative. It has its lesson learnt. I wouldn't say I 100% perceived the whole rapture experience, but what I got home after the curtain shuts is the conviction to release the spirit of God into the art world. To lay hold to the lost and save what is left and redeem what has left. Nothing is certain but God's promise stands.
"God is dead. If there is a God, why do bad things happened? WHY?"
Many a times I realised that men including myself seek the results but not the spirit behind the results. We want evidences but not the truth behind the proof. And how does this complicate Rapture?
Why do men need rapture?
What does rapture mean?
Rapture with the captial 'R' is not the same as the rapture with small 'r'.
rapture - The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy.
Rapture - comes from the Latin verb "rapiemur" which means "carried off" or "caught up".
As I was siting @ that red conforty seat.
Inside of me is a battle of the spritual conviction.
Rapture is not a simple word.
It's a culture defining word that puts noone who engrossed on the dance or the dancers on the fence. Either a sith lord of the Dark side or the Jedi Knight of the Force.
Maybe the next generation of youth is built upon this word - 'Rapture'
Maybe I am an addict for Jesus, 'cos I'm a seeker for Truth.
Addiction runs deep. Addiction causes radical action.
Addiction raptures.
