For the 2010 Dancing Poetry Winners list, please double click on the tab "2010 Winners and Festival." For the text of the Grand Prize Winning Poem, "Duet" by Ana Elsner of San Francisco, please scroll down to the bottom of this page. Thank you.
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| Ana Elsner, San Francisco, CA, reading her Grand Prize Winning Poem, "Duet." |
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| "Duet" by Ana Elsner as danced in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum, San Francisco, September 18, 2010 |
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| "Duet" by Ana Elsner, danced by Natica Angilly's Poetitc Dance Theater Company, read on stage by Richard and Natica Angilly |
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| "Duet" by Ana Elsner, as danced at the Dancing Poetry Festival, 2010 |
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| Ana Elsner takes her bow on stage with the dancers after the performance of the Grand Prize Winning Poem, "Duet." |
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DUET
By Ana Elsner, San Francisco, CA
2010 Grand Prize Winner
1st Person: 2nd Person:
Pick up this fabric. Pick up this fabric of light
and drape it. Pick up this fabric.
Pick up this fabric of silk and embroider it.
Pick up this fabric. Pick up this fabric of sky
and paint it. Pick up this fabric.
Pick up this fabric of hemp and sew it up.
This fabric of Life soaked in sweat,
This fabric of Life stained with blood,
This fabric of Life steeped in destiny.
Stitch it together with words
with YOUR words. Wash it
in your tears. Embroider it
with poems, with prayers,
with pearls of forgiveness, with sweet jasmine and honey.
Pick up this fabric and print it with patterns of joy,
with scales of music. Pick up this fabric.
Pick up your fabric and pleat it into folds of consolation.
Pick up this fabric YOUR fabric
and drape it around your shoulders;
This pliable canvas of life YOUR life,
for the picking, for the picking-out,
for the picking-up-on
PERFECTLY.
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