Fidget Feet aerial dance and everything else company.
Fidget Feet is the company my wife (pictured as angel on the left) and I started as a platform for our interests at the time and built to adapt to unknown interests in the future, hence the 'fidget' aspect. It has already been a great creative envelope where we have been able to grow in terms of music, video art, performing, writing and expanding the possibilities of aerial dance.
Early on in Fidget Feet's development, we were in Inverness making a short film, there was a field of rolled hay, a fantastic sky and Chantal was already dressed as an angel, so we quickly ducked into a field and took the picture that became the Fidget Feet logo image.
It was also in the early days when we didn't really know if the company would grow beyond the beginning stages that we brought it to the attention of our spiritual teacher Adi Da Samraj, from that point it certainly took a dramatic leap forward. We both worked with and for Adi Da on many artistic endeavors, appearing in both his plays, The Mummery and The Scapegoat, working on his art and video work and Fidget Feet created the opening show for Adi Da's appearance as an artist in his own right at the Bienale exhibition in Venice 2006.
I mention this as at the heart of Fidget Feet is this relationship with spiritual truth. This is something we in the west especially can have an instant block against, but it is something we have found through Adi Da's direction to be much more of an artistic openess, a creative freedom filled with inspiration, revelation and vast amounts of fun rather than the kind of insular stuck up kind of cult image developed to represent this vast arena of knowledge. Instead of 'preaching' any kind of insights we feel we have been given by Adi Da, we instead use our creativity to just express where we are in that relationship.
Early on in Fidget Feet's development, we were in Inverness making a short film, there was a field of rolled hay, a fantastic sky and Chantal was already dressed as an angel, so we quickly ducked into a field and took the picture that became the Fidget Feet logo image.
It was also in the early days when we didn't really know if the company would grow beyond the beginning stages that we brought it to the attention of our spiritual teacher Adi Da Samraj, from that point it certainly took a dramatic leap forward. We both worked with and for Adi Da on many artistic endeavors, appearing in both his plays, The Mummery and The Scapegoat, working on his art and video work and Fidget Feet created the opening show for Adi Da's appearance as an artist in his own right at the Bienale exhibition in Venice 2006.
I mention this as at the heart of Fidget Feet is this relationship with spiritual truth. This is something we in the west especially can have an instant block against, but it is something we have found through Adi Da's direction to be much more of an artistic openess, a creative freedom filled with inspiration, revelation and vast amounts of fun rather than the kind of insular stuck up kind of cult image developed to represent this vast arena of knowledge. Instead of 'preaching' any kind of insights we feel we have been given by Adi Da, we instead use our creativity to just express where we are in that relationship.
Below is Rachel Strickland looking out of this world at one of our castle gigs (killua) and below that, Ritchie looks amazing as he blows a fiery universe out of his mouth. Below that, Dawm Pascoe hanging out on the trapeze on our first rig ever.