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PERFORMANCE WORK BY CAMILLE MAURINE CAMILLE MAURINE is a dancer, writer, and performing artist who has written and performed full-length solo works in Los Angeles and elsewhere. She teaches improvisational theater and directs CoMMiT (Camille Maurine's Moving Theater). Camille is the author of Meditation Secrets for Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner Peace, (HarperSanFrancisco, 2001) and Meditation 24/7 (Andrews McMeel, 2004), both written with her husband, Dr. Lorin Roche.
CoMMiT PERFORMANCES For more about CoMMiT (Camille Maurine's Moving Theater) group performances, go to CoMMiT
ANIMA/ANIMUS, Artistic Director Camille directed Emilie Conrad, the founder of Continuum Movement, in "Anima/Animus", a performance piece in conjunction with Cass Phelps. What an exciting and transformative process together! The performances, September 26-28, 2003 at the Continuum Studio in Santa Monica, were sold out.
TIGER, TIGER (1993-94) is a dance theater piece about the passionate life and death of Camille's mother. Beverly Angelina was a wildwoman before her time whose story reveals the tragedy of trapped female energy. In the performance, Camille embodies her mother, dancing the movement of her dreams, her despair, and her demise. Not for the faint of heart, this tale of three generations of women, grandmother-mother-daughter, reveals how a legacy of pain can be transmuted through consciousness and art. The movement is performed to a sountrack of voice-over text mixed with music. Intense, dramatic, and moving. The 1994 version of TIGER, TIGER was directed by Emilie Conrad.
Creating and performing this work profoundly changed me, liberating my own passion and creativity in ways I could only suspect before. A bittersweet reality of live theater is that you pour your heart and soul into a performance and then it is over. It is therefore with deep gratitude and a tender heart that I release this video for you to see.
The video of the 1994 TIGER, TIGER performance is now available! VHS or DVD 65 minutes. Each copy costs $20 plus $4 shipping and handling. You can order one by sending a check or money order to: Camille Maurine, PO Box 9325, Marina del Rey, CA 90295.
SOLO PERFORMANCE WORKS BY CAMILLE MAURINE LOSING IT: a Dance of Father, Dark Matter and Stars (1996). No sooner than Camille had finished performing her mother piece than her father passed away and she realized she must create a work about the father-daughter relationship as part of the healing. This performance explores the mysteries of birth and death, placed within the metaphor of the birth and death of stars. In this autobiographical piece, Camille dances and speaks, alternately taking on the characters of herself and her father.
TIGER, TIGER and LOSING IT constitute what Camille calls her "Standing Stones." The two pieces together created an initiatory passageway between the legacy of her past and the new territory beyond.
IN THE MEANTIME (1998). Wild and crazy improvisations in movement, sounding and speech. Camille interviews the audience about their experience in LA, and then takes off in response.
PLEXUS: L.A. (1997-98). For this performance, Camille interviewed over 100 people around Los Angeles, from LAX to downtown, from all walks of life and cultural background about their experience of living in the city, their hopes and dreams, disappointments, and visions of the future. She recorded their responses and created a soundtrack, mixing snippets of their voices (with a wide array of international accents) with music and sound effects, to which she danced and spoke in the performances. This was Camille's pre-millennial tribute to the diversity, adaptability, and transformational possibilties of Los Angeles as an energy center on the body of Planet Earth.
Camille also gives a one-woman performance in conjunction with workshops and other events related to the book, MEDITATION SECRETS FOR WOMEN.
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