Nuit Blanche - Ben Heine Music

"Nuit Blanche", la nouvelle chanson de Ben Heine, un duo avec la chanteuse Stefanie Moon.

NUIT BLANCHE 

6h du mat, tu tournes en rond 

Impossible de fermer l'oeil, tu sais pas pourquoi 

Cette ritournelle qui te revient sans cesse en tête 

Et qui t'empêche de trouver le sommeil 

Non n'aie pas peur 

Vois cette lueur 

Ouvre ton coeur 

Trouve le bonheur 

C'est un de ces jours ou tu restes chez toi 

Tu sais très plus bien si t'es libre ou pas 

Tu choisis pas toujours la vie que t'as 

C'est dur d'aimer quand t'es délaissé 

Le matin tu te forces à te lever 

Mais t'es encore plus crevé que la veille et dans ta tête 

Tout est gris et tourmenté. T'as l' impression 

De vivre au ralenti mais faut bien se bouger 

Fais le pour toi 

Garde l'espoir 

Et ces hommes là 

N'y pense même pas 

A cause de tes choix, tu t'es exclu du monde 

Qui se métamorphose et que tu ne reconnais plus 

Le temps passe et ne s'arrête pas 

Il ne restera plus que de vagues souvenirs 

Je suis là 

Viens vers moi 

Trouve moi 

N'abandonne pas 

On est perdu dans l'univers 

Tous sur la même planète, on n'est pas grand chose 

Au final, des petits amas de poussières 

Mais on a besoin des autres et pas de grandes théories 

Tu n'es pas seul 

Autour de toi 

Il y a des âmes 

Qui peuvent t'aimer 

Il reste encore une lueur, celle qui te fait tenir 

Des enfants que tu aimes et qui ont de beaux rêves 

Tu te rends compte que la famille c'est important 

Essentiel même pour la survie

Alvin Ailey,
Choreographer

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© 2008 - Ben Heine

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Alvin Ailey was an American modern dancer and choreographer who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on 92nd Street in New York City. He died of AIDS, at the age of 58.

Alvin Ailey was born in Rogers, Texas on January 5, 1931 and moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of twelve. There, on a junior high school class trip to the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, he fell in love with concert dance. Inspired by performances of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company and classes with Lester Horton, Mr Ailey began his formal dance training. It was with Mr. Horton, the founder of the first racially integrated dance company in this country, that Mr. Ailey embarked on his professional dance career. After Horton's death in 1953, Mr. Ailey became the director of the Lester Horton Dance Theater and began to choreograph his own works. In 1954, he and his friend Carmen de Lavallade were invited to New York to dance in the Broadway show, House of Flowers by Truman Capote. In New York, Mr. Ailey studied with many outstanding dance artists, including Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman and took acting classes with Stella Adler. The versatile Ailey won a number of acting roles, continued to choreograph and performed as a dancer.

In 1958, Mr. Ailey founded his own company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Mr. Ailey had a vision of creating a company dedicated to the preservation and enrichment of the American modern dance heritage and the uniqueness of black cultural expression. In 1960, he choreographed Revelations, the classic masterpiece of American modern dance based on the religious heritage of his youth.

Throughout his lifetime, Mr. Ailey created some 79 ballets, many of which have appeared in the repertoire of major dance companies, including American Ballet Theatre, The Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Paris Opera Ballet and La Scala Ballet.

Mr. Ailey died on December 1, 1989. Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times wrote of Mr. Ailey, "You didn't need to have known Ailey personally to have been touched by his humanity, enthusiasm and exuberance and his courageous stand for multiracial brotherhood." (Source : Abt.org)

Also check out Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's website

Dancing Horse in the Sky

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© 2008 - Hubert Lebizay
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Sky Horses
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By Waltzing Mouse

White horses
Dancing amidst the heavens
Leaping, swaying beyond the stars

They are silent in their night watch
Moving slowly, searching
For the moon

Suddenly, lightning strikes
They dissipate into the inky sky
And become a soundless band of bitter night

(Poem's source : poemsabout.com)

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The poem and photo appeared on hubzay.deviantart.com
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