I dreamt.
I closed
The lid
Of my own
Shiny black coffin.
A former self
Had passed away.
I carried.
I dragged
The burden
Through the streets
Of my childhood
Asking for and seeking
A burial ground
Without any
Such luck.
The dead weight
Of the past
Is a heavy load
It’s still attached to me
But I’m ready
To lay it
To rest.
Give me
The plot of Earth
Next to
My former heartache,
Alongside of
The deceased fears
That used to choke
My well-being
And my pursuit
Of love.
The time has come
To lower the skeleton
Of what used to be
Into the eternal
Wormhole of lost youth.
As mother and daughter
Accept the beauty
Of new blossoms
With a ripened fragrance
Signalling
The evolution of self,
The breath of air
Which sustains
This goodbye
Is sweeter than most,
Longer than most.
And when the pink
light from the setting
Sun of this season
Draws closer
To the horizon,
May we all return
To the bounty
Of this resting place
With comforting
Slivers of remembrance
Sticking themselves
Within our minds
Within our souls
If only for an instant
Before we pull them out.
The hovering thunderclouds
Threaten our peace.
But as we all
Come to discover,
The rain delivers
Salvation
Just as
The tears grant us
Solidarity
In our own
Relentlessly sorrowful
Relentlessly joyful
Circles of rebirth.
Author: Kate March
Email: [email protected]
Author Bio: KATE MARCH is an American multi-hyphenate artist and entrepreneur based between Hong Kong and New York City. Ms. March is a performance artist, director, writer, choreographer, speaker, and producer. She received her BA in Performance/Choreography from Connecticut College (Summa Cum Laude) and her MA in Choreography from Middlesex University in London (Highest Honours). Globally acclaimed, her art has been described as visionary, interactive, provocative, and powerfully bold. Ms. March is the founder and creative director of the all female international creative collective I AM.
Through her work with I AM, she not only develops innovative performance concepts and redefines dinner theatre, but also continues to perform across the world in a variety of unique projects in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, China, Australia, the Maldives, and America. Recently, Kate March was nominated for the “Revolution Award” as part of the annual local theatre “HKELD” awards. In 2016 Ms. March was selected as the Artist in Residence at Hotel Vagabond in Singapore where she spent a month creating a new piece of site specific performance work. Notably, her most commercially successful work An Evening of Meat was performed in London for a 10 weeks run in March 2018 at the Vaults Theatre.
Outside of I AM, Ms. March explores her artistic voice through passions for performative monologues, dance on film projects, theatre production, and academic lecturing. In 2015, Ms. March delivered a TEDx speech in Hong Kong which launched a series of inspirational speaking engagements. In addition to speeches on love and uncertainty, her most recent commissioned speech was about pleasure and was delivered for an audience of 700 people at the 2016 Hong Kong ORGASMO event which supported the HK Arts Foundation.
Ms. March’s dance on film work UNDER | WATER featuring dance, fashion and dynamic cinematography has been selected for several Film Festivals in 2017. In addition to directing, producing, and performing in countless movement based concepts, Ms. March has also written, produced, and directed several evening length theatre pieces. One of which particularly premiered to great acclaim: Love Pings (HK Premiere October 2015). Love Pings is set to tour in Asia in 2017 and is set to premiere in NYC by 2019 (lovepings.com).
Finally, Ms. March has also acted as a part‐time lecturer of movement improvisation at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts from 2013-2015 where she remains a guest lecturer for both the BA and MFA programs
Link to social media or website: Instagram @iam_katemarch | Website http://katemarch.com
