DAVID BOWIE EXHIBITION...
Recently saw the Bowie exhibition at ACMI in the city. What can I say....it was amazing!
I am a Bowie fan but who isn't....and it was great to see so much of his personal collection. Letters and notes, lyrics and stage ideas, costumes and shoes, movie clips, video clips....all revealing his rise as Bowie from the early days. Even a mention of one of my favourite early songs, 1967 The laughing gnome .
And while I admit to being a huge fan, it is his creativity that really inspires. He was not afraid to try anything, and I do mean anything. I also think it was his early dabblings in mime and the theatre that make him such a great entertainer.
I was lucky enough to see him perform twice, in 1987 the Glass Spider Tour and then 2004 his Reality Tour. Great shows full of showmanship and theatre, as well as fantastic music and performances.
It is a dying art- a performer entertaining.
Listening to one of his early interviews when he talked about whether it would be easier just to sing or whether to become different characters and let them take over and perform. We all know he allowed the characters to come through, his whole idea of reinventing himself through these...from Major Tom to Ziggy....Aladdin Sane to the Thin White Duke. Each persona gave him the freedom to try something new, something different. He was never typecast.
This to me is very inspirational. Most of us are very easily typecast, very easily delegated to the 'short story writer'- the 'poet' - the 'novelist' - the 'playwright' - the 'children's writer'. And how hard is to break out of these imaginary bonds?
Perhaps it's time to take a step away from reality- to take a leap into the unknown.
Who knows where it might lead?
Vicki
I am a Bowie fan but who isn't....and it was great to see so much of his personal collection. Letters and notes, lyrics and stage ideas, costumes and shoes, movie clips, video clips....all revealing his rise as Bowie from the early days. Even a mention of one of my favourite early songs, 1967 The laughing gnome .
And while I admit to being a huge fan, it is his creativity that really inspires. He was not afraid to try anything, and I do mean anything. I also think it was his early dabblings in mime and the theatre that make him such a great entertainer.
I was lucky enough to see him perform twice, in 1987 the Glass Spider Tour and then 2004 his Reality Tour. Great shows full of showmanship and theatre, as well as fantastic music and performances.
It is a dying art- a performer entertaining.
Listening to one of his early interviews when he talked about whether it would be easier just to sing or whether to become different characters and let them take over and perform. We all know he allowed the characters to come through, his whole idea of reinventing himself through these...from Major Tom to Ziggy....Aladdin Sane to the Thin White Duke. Each persona gave him the freedom to try something new, something different. He was never typecast.
This to me is very inspirational. Most of us are very easily typecast, very easily delegated to the 'short story writer'- the 'poet' - the 'novelist' - the 'playwright' - the 'children's writer'. And how hard is to break out of these imaginary bonds?
Perhaps it's time to take a step away from reality- to take a leap into the unknown.
Who knows where it might lead?
Vicki
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