{"id":205,"date":"2015-02-25T18:11:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/?page_id=205"},"modified":"2016-09-20T19:18:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:18:48","slug":"new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/new-yorker\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this picture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"my-left\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2107\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new-yorker-dancer.jpg\" alt=\"new-yorker-dancer\" width=\"440\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new-yorker-dancer.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new-yorker-dancer-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/new-yorker-dancer-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/>When IgniVox produces an event, this New Yorker cover expresses the effect we hope to create in both our performers and audience.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"my-right\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The woman in the audience is caught up in an ecstatic moment. Her eyes are closed as her body spontaneously imitates the somatic gesture of the dancer&#8217;s own movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">She is having what we call a moment of <em>aesthesis,<\/em> an experience of transcendence where we are inspired by a performative moment to see the world in a fresh way and behave accordingly, sometimes in ways that move beyond familiar conventions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Now the dancer is also having her own moment. Interestingly, she is not facing the audience. Her eyes are also closed and her gaze focused upward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">She is in what performers call <em>the zone<\/em> when their creative talents are in perfect alignment and they themselves are in a state of surrender to the <em>divine<\/em> or their source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In our work, IgniVox recognizes the profound function we ask performers to hold by being a channel for their divine gifts. When the audience receives that fire of inspiration from a performer and gives it back, this becomes oxygen for the performer&#8217;s fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">When this happens, ( &amp; we&#8217;ve all been to occasions where something magical is constellated!) enormous, joyful energy is released.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When IgniVox produces an event, this New Yorker cover expresses the effect we hope to create in both our performers and audience. The woman in the audience is caught up in an ecstatic moment. Her eyes are closed as her body spontaneously imitates the somatic gesture of the dancer&#8217;s own movement. She is having what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ignivox.net\/presents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}