Before I knew what painting was about, I was asked to physicalize a young Việt Cộng soldier through movements to assist an ex-Marine reliving his first killing experience when he was 18. He wrote a monologue to be performed at the Actor's studio in New York. I had studied w Rob O' Neil for a few years but I had never performed in public before. To the ex-marine, It was more important that I was a Vietnamese than being an experienced mover. I was to open the space and be with him while he performed the monologue. Rob had trained me to use the breath to create the necessary condition to put my body in space and to ground it to find the relationship that would inform the physical movements. The awareness of the breath allowed me to not be in my head to feel self conscious for never been performed before. Instead, I breathed with the audience, the stage that I walked on and the dark air to embody the feeling of being watched and exposed for the first time. Just like a wandering soul still trapped in the in-between state of neither death or life without rebirth.
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The regular cadence of the in out breath.
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