The Numina - Photos from "Awakening" #3

"Drought"

 "Myth comes alive as it enters the cauldron of evolution, itself drawing energy from the storytellers who shape it." 

 Elizabeth Fuller,  The Independent Eye

 So many wonderful photos from Ann Waters with Mana Youngbear, and their community of dancers presentation of The Awakening.  Thank you once again for bringing these masks to life, for truly making them "Masks for the Elemental Powers"!

Diane Smalley as "Storm"

"The mythologies of our present culture are heading us to destruction...we are being called upon to participate in revising the mythic assumptions that we follow."

 Suzi Gablik,  Art Critic

"Desert Spring (Our Lady of the Arroyo)"

Deb Macarthy as "Ocean"

"Ice (Glacier"

Cathy Cantwell  as "Flood"

Elk Macarthy  "Volcano"

Diane Smalley as "Mariposa" (Imaginal)"

"The Lady of Avalon (Sacred Spring)"

Frosty Webber as "River"

"Rainbow"

Annie Waters as "Dawn of the New Aeon"

Mana Youngbear as "Medicine Basket"

Paula Geroux as "Gaia"

"What the audience saw when a dancer looked through the eyes of the mask was the Goddess  Herself, an ancient and yet utterly contemporary presence, looking across time, across the miles."

Diane Darling, Director, Playwright

Christy Salo as "The Black Madonna"

All photographs are copyright Jerri Jo Idarius, and used with her permission.