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Music From a Painted Cave is based on all the endeavors that I have chosen to do onstage. An evolution is the best word I can use to describe it. As I write this, I realize how I am beginning another evolution. There is a saying: "If you don't evolve, you die." My evolution has come from the Pueblo to Japanese Butoh dancers, to cowboy poets, Hawaiian chants, Australian Aborigines, and more-so much more. The world I live in has been full of dancers, geniuses, storytellers, sorcerers, and kisses-and I have had an appetite for them all.
Music From a Painted Cave is an evolutionary vision of on man, from birth's breath through the metamorphosis of time. I dedicate this part of my time to all the people I have danced with, from the snowy cold mornings of the Turtle Dance to the sweaty nights spent in some city. I am ready and my muscles and bones are changing into another dance, somewhere in another painted cave. ~ Your Faithful Servant, Mirabal ~
Fusing traditional Southwestern Native American tribal music and modern beats, Robert Mirabal: Music from a Painted Cave is a fascinating performance. It's a combination that you might question, but Mirabal is such a talented singer-songwriter that not only does he make it work, you could argue he has created a new genre.
"The first part of Music from a Painted Cave finds Mirabal, the Mirabal Singers/Dancers, and Rare Tribal Mob in traditional tribal dress, using native instruments and performing tribal dances. A song he heard from his grandmother, "Ee-you-oo," is a paean to children, and "Little Indians" is a lovely folk ballad he wrote in the same vein. Later in the program Mirabal changes his traditional garb for leather pants, and the music becomes more like rock & roll in the energetic "Hope," although the native-drum backbeat is always there. Besides being musically inspired, Music from a Painted Cave is visually stunning: the costumes are beautiful, the staging elaborate, and the choreography gorgeous." ~ Dana Van Nest ~ Running time: 110 minutes.
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Robert Mirabal, Music from A Painted Cave, Taos Pueblo, Native American Indian DVD
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