dates: 9:30pm, Sunday, July 22, 2012
and 9:30pm, Monday, July 23, 2012
place: the Bargello National Museum
Via del Proconsolo 4, 50122
Florence, Italy

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price: Standard tickets 32 Euro. Purchase tickets here.
VIP Premium seating tickets also available.
more information: visit DaPeaceDance.com
to help support this event and related productions (including a 3D film): visit the Indiegogo page

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The Team:

"Where artistic expression and a message for peace become one."

Not-Two Is Peace is a multimedia explosion of dance, music, video, art, and Peace. Inspired by the literary work of the artist and philosopher Adi Da Samraj, the work is a co-production of the Florence Dance Company and the Ensemble Nuovo Contrappunto for 20 dancers and 15 musicians all performing live on stage.

The production is inspired by Adi Da's book, Not-Two Is Peace. In this book, Adi Da Samraj presents an approach to world peace that is based on the presumption of prior unity, and that advocates a disposition of non-separation, enabling the collective transcendence of global conflicts.

Making its debut in 2011 to critical acclaim, the Not-Two Is Peace Ballet Theatre Event expands to a new level in 2012 with more dance, music, and art.

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Not-Two Is Peace Dance Event length: 04:05 event date: July 22, 2012 On July 22 and 23, 2012, in a spectacular, multi-media event at Florence’s Bargello Museum — one of the city’s most prized historic buildings—the grace and talent of dancers and musicians will combine with the Image-Art of Adi Da. Not-Two Is Peace is an adaptation by the Florence Dance Company of Adi Da's masterpiece, the book, Not-Two Is Peace. Not-Two Is Peace is part of an ongoing collaboration between The Florence Dance Company and the Art of Adi Da, that began in July of 2008 in a Piazza in Florence, Italy. Since then 3 major ballets that have been performed in Italy in the course of over 50 public shows. This now continues in 2012. For more about the Not-Two Is Peace Dance Event, click here. This video was narrated by Richard Quinn, Sophia Hoadley, and Keith Ferrone. Music composed by Naamleela Free Jones.

full page link If video won't play in place, refresh the page and try again. Or you can click "full page link" (above).	In the Beginning (Andrea Portera, 2012) part 1 of Music from the Ballet, Not-Two Is Peace length: 04:00 event date: July 22, 2012 views: 4327 Music by premier Florentine composer Andrea Portera, from the ballet, Not-Two Is Peace, performed on July 22 and 23, 2012. This piece is called "In the Beginning". To view more parts in this series, click here.

AUDIO

In The Time Of Light (Naamleela Free Jones, 2012) part 7 of Music from the Ballet, Not-Two Is Peace length: 01:29 listens: 8758 Excerpts from Naamleela Free Jones's CD, In The Time Of Light. A musical celebration of light and peace, just in time for the Season of Light-In-Everybody! On July 22 and 23, 2012, the Florence Dance Company presented a multimedia spectacle entitled Not-Two Is Peace. The performance at the Bargello Museum in Florence, Italy brought together image-art by Adi Da Samraj, original ballet by the Florence Dance Company, and live music — a dynamic exploration of the principles of world peace and prior unity as described in Adi Da's book, Not-Two Is Peace. Part Two of the performance featured music for solo piano, composed and performed by Naamleela Free Jones, and presented here in this commemorative recording. The CD also features photographs from the performance as well as the city of Florence. To view more parts in this series, click here.

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Not-Two Is Peace Press Conference, June 20, 2012

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Feature story in La Nazione, July 22, 2012
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Performance: July 23, 2012
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Performance: July 23, 2012
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Performance: July 23, 2012
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