DELIVERANCE: A multi-media Haiku Collection by Dhyano

In occasion of the Port Eliot festival 2010 I am launching a 10 minutes performance consisting in the delivery of a series of 3 Haikus interlaced with a video-poem 'Deliverance' as audio-visual background. The poems are performed in original language (Italian) and on the video, as subtitles, will appear the English translation also in form of Haiku. In between haikus I will improvise a dance developed from the workshop with Stella Azzurra Squadroni (Haiku dance), while playing the bansuri (bamboo flute). That will be at the profwriting tent http://www.profwriting.com/
The performance is designed to give a profound and definitive answer to the obsessive question "what brought you here?" that everybody usually asks as soon as acknowledges someone’s foreign accent. ”… every time I answer something different and I never lie. In fact, back in London, eight years ago, I have based my decision to move to Cornwall on the result of a reading of I-Ching that gave me the hexagram Hsieh/deliverance. I’ve asked the oracle: shall I move to Cornwall? And the answer was: “The south west furthers”. Within a month I’d packed up my stuff and moved. And here I am.”
Through a delicate balance of sounds, images and physical expression, the performance explores areas of our psyche that are responsible for our irrational decisions. The intention of the piece is not to showcase the skillful ability of the author/performer, but to show the potential of verbal compositions to materialize through our senses in form of sound, images and movement.
Notes about the music.
In settings where there is no availability of a media projector, the piece can be performed without video.
The sound installation ‘deliverance’ is a series of sounds entirely recorded by the author using his voice. As the Indian flute has 6 holes, the piece of music improvised is inspired by the hexagram Hsieh. The pattern of notes will follow the indications of the open lines.
Notes about the movements.
The work of Stella Azzurra Squadroni is strongly influenced by the Japanese butoh dance. Far from considering himself a dancer, Dhyano has developed this performance inspired by the powerful intensity of the total freedom of expression through movement, explored during the workshop Haiku Dance. “I felt like pushed back to reconsider my creative roots, to question my artistic self at the point that I was about to give up all what I have built so far. Kind of blowing away the card castle carefully assembled through the years.” It’s out of this hazy dusty nothingness that slowly appears ‘deliverance’ as an attempt to describe the wabi-sabi concept of a ‘universe in constant motion toward or away from potential’.
Here is hexagram:
40. Hsieh / Deliverance
Here the movement goes out of the sphere of danger. The obstacle has been removed, the difficulties are being resolved. Deliverance is not yet achieved; it is just in its beginning, and the hexagram represents its various stages.
THE JUDGMENT
DELIVERANCE. The southwest furthers.
If there is no longer anything where one has to go,
Return brings good fortune.
If there is still something where one has to go,
Hastening brings good fortune.
This refers to a time in which tensions and complications begin to be eased. At such times we ought to make our way back to ordinary conditions as soon as possible; this is the meaning of "the southwest." These periods of sudden change have great importance. Just as rain relieves atmospheric tension, making all the buds burst open, so a time of deliverance from burdensome pressure has a liberating and stimulating effect on life. One thing is important, however: in such times we must not overdo our triumph. The point is not to push on farther than is necessary. Returning to the
regular order of life as soon as deliverance is achieved brings good fortune. If there
are any residual matters that ought to be attended to, it should be done as quickly as possible, so that a clean sweep is made and no retardations occur.
THE IMAGE
Thunder and rain set in:
The image of DELIVERANCE.
Thus the superior man pardons mistakes
And forgives misdeeds.
A thunderstorm has the effect of clearing the air; the superior man produces a similar effect when dealing with mistakes and sins of men that induce a condition of tension. Through clarity he brings deliverance. However, when failings come to light, he does not dwell on them; he simply passes over mistakes, the unintentional transgressions, just as thunder dies away. He forgives misdeeds, the intentional transgressions, just as water washes everything clean.
And here are the poems:
1
Onda d’albero
Dà da bere brillori
Ecco! S’ingrinza.

Wave of fluid tree
Gives to drink us shimmering
Here! It is rippling.

2
Mosca che vola
Lascia la scia d’aria
Ora si posa

Hectic flying fly
Leaves behind a track of air
Now it touches down

3
Fiore ch’affiora
Spacca piano l’asfalto
Romba la strada

A flower peeps out
Cracking open the asphalt
The road is roaring