Ad here is a link to the county web site
 
http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/HH/Main/epi/bcrates.cfm
 
another link from the NIH
 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC314435/
 
Here are the links to the civic center auditorium and old frankie lloyd 
wright
 
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Marin_Civic_Center.html
 
http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/lb/main/crm/photoalbums/flw/flwmain.html
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_County_Civic_Center
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: ashley davidoff <ad@thecommonvein.com>
To: Sally Anne Friedland <sallyanne@dancedrama.co.il>; Lindsay Leveen 
<lleveen@aol.com>; Hilton Rosenthal <hilton@rhythmsafari.com>; Patti 
Moss <pmmoss@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 5:06 am
Subject: FW: an agenda for discussion
 
Dear All
 
This concept occupied my mind in the shower this am
 
Had to get it to you while it is still fresh lest I forget  Excuse the 
mania of emails
 
throwing it out there to ponder
 
Title
"Cell to Soul" encomapasses it all - the science and the arts
 
Evening agenda
 
In the auditorium
DDC dance
Potentaially other artists devoted to the cause
 
 
In the Atrium
 
Art exhibits in the atrium (invited)
 
In the Reception Room
 
Dinner with luminary speakers with an overview for the lay person on 
where we are and where are and where we want to go
 
MC - Luminary
 
The Cell - Where is the science going - World Expert
Medicine - Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment  World Experts
Social   - Psychosocial aspects Optimizing Care World Expert
The Patient - the Soul  - Luminary Speaker
 

To: “Patti Moss” <pmmoss@yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 3:45 PM

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:27:17 -0800
From: pmmoss@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: 25 yeasr NBCAM
To: ad@thecommonvein.com
CC: sallyanne@dancedrama.co.il

Hope your son has recovered from his ordeal Patti  Did he actually go through the windshield.  This is always my fear in the Northeast winters  The black ice – invisible to the eye but a perpetual danger to anything that treads on that  dangerous territory   Where are you living now?

Thanks for your email

Must say the admin hierarchy and the NGO’s elude me – and I have to depend on those, who know that world, to advise

However I thought about your very practical questions and was challenged enough to start working on them

You posed

“I hope we can each spend some time considering what to bring to the table about the idea of message.
What do we want to say to people?
Who is the show for?
Who will watch it and how will they feel if they are fighting cancer and scared?
What if they lost someone and have unresolved feelings?
What if they were hurt by the medical experience? What if they are religious—>or not religious?
When they leave, what do we hope they will feel?
These are the sorts of things to consider along with how they will be compelled (through marketing images and messaging) to attend. ”

This is what I came up with for the moment

If it is to be breast cancer – (and this is my current vote) the performance should not all be about cancer

My initial idea is to have a few dances that each artistically defined different aspects of the breast – (in medicine it is about structure, function, disease, diagnosis, and treatment)
the structure of the breast  – the cells the components and the marvelous conglomerate structure /
the function of the breast – breast feeding  all for one and one for all – harmonious function of each cell for the grand whole –  social message – nourishment satisfaction warmth bonding /
secondary sex organ  – the remarkable fascination –  perhaps something on the humorous side of the adolescent fascination and the adult fascination /
breast reduction /enlargement  Dr Seuss type story  – ie you want whatever you have not got/
the breast confined by day in a bra/ humor
the emotion of first finding out the diagnosis (mammogram biopsy)
a dance on the concept of cancer (space occupation and or apoptosis – cell that has a deranged sense of time) social message/
cancer as a rebel in the community with no regard for the community at large – the social message /
treatment – radiation and or surgery and or chemotherapy – sad sad sad struggles loss of hair /self image /hope
and finally an emotional struggle with breast cancer – the family / husband /friends providing support – times of strength and hope and times of weakness and loss of hope but really the bottom line about support that is needed Would tend to want to exclude a win story or  a lose story  message – Support of close family and friends becomes the bottom line  perhaps appeal for the support of the powers beyond

This approach would have truth social messages humor and sadness and hope of human support as the important element
I had started a web site called “Cell to Soul ” which has some early ideas in art form (http://www.thecommonvein.net/navdoc/doc_view_fs.asp?id=16)

In fact I still like the title “Cell to Soul” – has a nice ring

What does the artistic director think?

Ashley

Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 17:26:39 -0800
From: pmmoss@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: something new
To: ad@thecommonvein.com; sallyanne49@yahoo.com

The Evolving Name and Story

Patti Moss posed the following questions

 “I hope we can each spend some time considering what to bring to the table about the idea of message.
What do we want to say to people?
Who is the show for?
Who will watch it and how will they feel if they are fighting cancer and scared?
What if they lost someone and have unresolved feelings?
What if they were hurt by the medical experience? What if they are religious—>or not religious?
When they leave, what do we hope they will feel?
These are the sorts of things to consider along with how they will be compelled (through marketing images and messaging) to attend. “

This is what AD  came up with for the moment

If it is to be breast cancer – (and this is my current vote) the performance should not all be about cancer

My initial idea is to have a few dances that each artistically defined different aspects of the breast – (in medicine it is about structure, function, disease, diagnosis, and treatment)
the structure of the breast  – the cells the components and the marvelous conglomerate structure /
the function of the breast – breast feeding  all for one and one for all – harmonious function of each cell for the grand whole –  social message – nourishment satisfaction warmth bonding /
secondary sex organ  – the remarkable fascination –  perhaps something on the humorous side of the adolescent fascination and the adult fascination /
breast reduction /enlargement  Dr Seuss type story  – ie you want whatever you have not got/
the breast confined by day in a bra/ humor
the emotion of first finding out the diagnosis (mammogram biopsy)
a dance on the concept of cancer (space occupation and or apoptosis – cell that has a deranged sense of time) social message/
cancer as a rebel in the community with no regard for the community at large – the social message /
treatment – radiation and or surgery and or chemotherapy – sad sad sad struggles loss of hair /self image /hope
and finally an emotional struggle with breast cancer – the family / husband /friends providing support – times of strength and hope and times of weakness and loss of hope but really the bottom line about support that is needed Would tend to want to exclude a win story or  a lose story  message – Support of close family and friends becomes the bottom line  perhaps appeal for the support of the powers beyond

This approach would have truth social messages humor and sadness and hope of human support as the important element
I had started a web site called “Cell to Soul ” which has some early ideas in art form (http://www.thecommonvein.net/navdoc/doc_view_fs.asp?id=16)

In fact I still like the title “Cell to Soul” – has a nice ring

What does the artistic director think?

Seems like a very interesting and noble lead up to your current endeavours Patti – Hospice stands out and your sisters experience stands out as motivators  Would love to see your photography Tried to Google but did not find your images  The NGO experience is huge for this endeavour and a relief that somebody on the team knows the hows and whys of this  Your passion for art just adds to the karma

Re the story line

Do not want to get too far before we get Sally’s input but the ideas keep on rolling in my mind and I do not want to lose the thoughts and the momentum

So I updated cell to soul and added two “essays” that are part of the breast module on The Common Vein
(“Cell to Soul ”  URL =ttp://www.thecommonvein.net/navdoc/doc_view_fs.asp?id=16)
Under the Electric Sun  was written by Jodi Daynard an English teacher in our school – whose family name was Davidoff two generations ago – we are likely close relations – same towns of origin in Lithuania – we met in the park walking our dogs – her story describes her profound experience and emotions while undergoing radiation therapy

In 2007 I started an essay which I have now called Biography from a Little Womb
I like to personify the cells and organs of the body – I make myself very small and I go on an inside journey and try and describe and experience what is happening  I had thought this is what Einstein had done to understand physics – but I have tried to find the reference and cannot  Anyway it is a very useful excercise for me and allows wonderful artistic licence

I am far from finished but it fits the cell to soul theme – by taking the cell as the “person” that suffers inside the body it allows some distance from the personal well known common experience  – but it educates in a more remote but real way (I think?)  The soul takes it in the other direction and also I think takes the pain away to some extent because of the implications of the infinite

The cell is key to the whole body One bad egg and the whole can be destroyed We see this again and again in history and it is the story of cancer  The parts that make up the whole – that 1+1 = 1 and oneness and Hashem are part of this as I have written before

Could imagine the conception and the internal genetic debate between an XY and XX outcome – and in this case it is an XX = female as the opening dance and the forerunner of what is to come as a result of that earlest conflict of chromosomes

then
biography from the small womb as the breasts develop in utero

and then as described below in prior emails social humorous human tragic support messages

adolescence
adulthood
motherhood
arrival of the rebels (sharks vs jets???  type dance of West Side Story Fame)
undergoing therapy
support of the family