Clare Byrne

About this original series

Clare Byrne is a choreographer and dancer. Weekly Rites is a performance selection chosen from an hour of continuously recorded improvisation, taped wherever she is each week. It's an ongoing experiment in movement and writing -- how with her body, the frame, and modern-day media and venues (internet, iPod), she can enact an old and ongoing function: channelling the Muse through movement, sound, and words. The intent is that these dances are a form of prayer, or energy-enacting. Please subscribe to find out what it enacts for you.

  • Category

    Learning

  • # Episodes

    208 episodes

  • Rating

    TV-UN

Episodes of Clare Byrne

    • Play Weekly Rites CCXIII - wave roll - Clare Byrne on Blip Clare Byrne episodes on Blip

      Weekly Rites CCXIII - wave roll

      http://clarebyrneweeklyrites.blogspot.com/ The marrow of the bone: love, religion and art are things to do - some of the best things to do, maybe the only. They are not moral pursuits, in any generalized sense. Some kind of narrowing, channelling of their activity, is necessary. I guess to each her own morality of love, religion and art. There is so much humdrum - and a few peaks, here and there. A huge hawk flew low out of a tree in front of the house as I walked out this morning, and exited ...

      • Release date
        Jul 8, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:40
    • Play Weekly Rites - I intend - Clare Byrne on Blip Clare Byrne episodes on Blip

      Weekly Rites - I intend

      http://clarebyrneweeklyrites.blogspot.com A graceful snake is keeping an eye on the garden for me when I'm not there. Eye on the grasshoppers and cabbage worms - mouth on them too. Meanwhile in casual conversation she says to me: celebrate for any reason wait a while sing the refrain over and over spend profligately embrace difficult communions porn is normal for guys fire in all its names is significant write down the lines right away or you lose them I intend to follow her council as best I ...

      • Release date
        Jul 1, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:27
    • Play Weekly Rites CCXI - twinkly fingers - Clare Byrne on Blip Clare Byrne episodes on Blip

      Weekly Rites CCXI - twinkly fingers

      http://clarebyrneweeklyrites.blogspot.comOnce-full moon is hanging in the blue sky this morning, a new day, sunlight brand new. All is part of all. Who knows what they are seeing the sun rise over? I see it rise over forest trees this morning, like trees I walked through to get here, so distinct and green and hushed inside, so sacrosanct. This whole land is a cathedral, vaulted and dedicated, this whole land is holy. I walk off the road and feel blessing. Annie Dillard says our job is to witne...

      • Release date
        Jun 22, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:26
    • Play Weekly Rites CCX - eureka - Clare Byrne on Blip Clare Byrne episodes on Blip

      Weekly Rites CCX - eureka

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      • Release date
        Jun 17, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:23
    • Play Weekly Rites CCIX - order on lawn - Clare Byrne on Blip Clare Byrne episodes on Blip

      Weekly Rites CCIX - order on lawn

      http://clarebyrneweeklyrites.blogspot.com/

      • Release date
        Jun 10, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:50
    • Play Weekly Rites CCVIII - ghost - Clare Byrne on Blip Clare Byrne episodes on Blip

      Weekly Rites CCVIII - ghost

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      • Release date
        Jun 2, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:42
    • Play Weekly Rites CCVII - dandelion crown - Clare Byrne on Blip Clare Byrne episodes on Blip

      Weekly Rites CCVII - dandelion crown

      http://clarebyrneweeklyrites.blogspot.com/ My favorite verse from "Girl From the North Country, " a Bob Dylan song that Keith Richards selects as his favorite in the Dylan 70th Birthday Tribute in Rolling Stone Magazine (a song he says is Dylan being innocent, true - not jaded and ironic): "I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all Many times I've often prayed In the darkness of my night In the brightness of my day." I like how, many times he's often prayed. I also like that Dylan first sings...

      • Release date
        May 27, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:46
    • Play Weekly Rites CCVI - tape and heels - Clare Byrne on Blip Clare Byrne episodes on Blip

      Weekly Rites CCVI - tape and heels

      http://clarebyrneweeklyrites.blogspot.com/A seed in the ground, stimulated, bursts its hard skin from within. More comes out than was inside. The form is complicit in its own demise. The thing coming out is already more than the seed - growing up and growing down, rooting and ascending. Down goes an angelic white mist, a feathering of capillaries, greeting the earth below, spirit-like, deferentially parting particles. Contrarily the stem and leaves pushing up are brusque, determined, thrusting...

      • Release date
        May 20, 2011
      • Runtime
        02:37
    • Play Weekly Rites CCV - Clare Byrne on Blip Clare Byrne episodes on Blip

      Weekly Rites CCV

      http://clarebyrneweeklyrites.blogspot.com/m doing Rolling Stones time. A bit obsessed. Trying to figure out whose smile 20-year-old Mick Jagger reminds me of. Trying to place 66-year-old Keith Richard's eyes. Imagining all the animals they have inhabited over their performance lifetimes - panthers, wild horses, eagles, foxes, parrots, peacocks, turtles, lizards. So many colors. ; They are a pair, the two of them, a fascinating conundrum, real karmic love-mates working out some soul connections...

      • Release date
        May 13, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:44
    • Play Weekly Rites CCIV - grinning - Clare Byrne on Blip Clare Byrne episodes on Blip

      Weekly Rites CCIV - grinning

      http://clarebyrneweeklyrites.blogspot.com/I'm lucky to have dance as an ally. Can't think of a more useful (because it's useless) talent. I can't think of a more general, catholic activity that I can make specific and still be universal. ; But all I want to do is play guitar, that other utterly generic activity made earthshatteringly specific by common blokes. I'm reading Keith Richard's autobiography. About the early days, listening to blues records and imitating:

      • Release date
        May 6, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:30
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