WEBVTT

00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:14.999
New research on aging is smashing

00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:19.999
this cage or dilution of knowledge about aging that
was filled with negative myths and stereotypes.

00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:24.999
Once you start focusing on
potential in later life,

00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:29.999
this completely changes the equation
and home sense about what’s possible.

00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.999
[sil.]

00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:39.999
Imagination is so core to
the… the human experience,

00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:44.999
it’s what contributes to us
wanting to claim mountains,

00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:49.999
explore space and it’s even more fundamental
in many ways than memory, it’s accessible.

00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:54.999
To create a process, there
are numbers of ways

00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:59.999
in which it has a positive affective on your… your
brain and your… and your body. Many acts of creativity

00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.999
you have this wonderful sense of mastery
or… or control in the… in the process.

00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:09.999
A number of us over time
became increasingly aware

00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:14.999
of the number of talented older
people who were unrecognized,

00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:19.999
and so we formed this group called
the Creativity Discover Corps,

00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:24.999
which is designed to identify these
people and then to promote their work.

00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:29.999
They (inaudible) really wonderful imagery,
because you are so focused on learning.

00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:34.999
Involves people at many different ages in the core
there, they are volunteers and it’s a creative process

00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:39.999
in identifying these people and
making their work visible.

00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:44.999
[sil.]

00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.999
We are gonna visit the home of an
architect, who is approaching 98 years,

00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:54.999
and he is doing some truly
extraordinary things.

00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:59.999
He has submitted a design at the
age of 96 for the 9/11 Memorial.

00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:04.999
I define creativity is bringing something
new into existence that’s valued.

00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:09.999
Creativity is really one of the realms that has advanced
the understanding of a uh… brain-body interactions,

00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:14.999
where uh… the mind influences the brain,

00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:19.999
which then influences the immune system.

00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:24.999
The whole area of what’s called brain plasticity is really quite
fascinating in terms of how the brain changes with aging.

00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.999
Brain cells have projections,

00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:34.999
they are called dendrites, they are
sort of like branches from a tree,

00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:39.999
and as you challenge your mind, your brain cells broke new dendrites
like sprout new dendrites, like your fingers are coming out your hand.

00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:44.999
Whenever we challenge our brain, we produce new
dendrites, and that capacity knows no age limit.

00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:49.999
[sil.]

00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:54.999
I made it. Yeah.

00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.999
Very nice to see you Ms. McLaughin.
Thank you, for having us over here.

00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:04.999
Does this competition have over 5,000 submission,
architects love to go in competition.

00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:09.999
I wanted to build… rebuild
a world free trade center.

00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:14.999
I heard about these libraries
and I can see that

00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:19.999
if you a lost soul and you come
here and you are looking for

00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.999
your last one or… but you
could just walk through and

00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:29.999
it struck me as being appropriate
for the mood for this…

00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.999
this busy little part, and I thought that this
would be for future generations to come here,

00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:39.999
to this site and think about

00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.999
the nature of humanity.

00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:49.999
Through this process of interviewing elder artist,
Dr. Cohen and the Creativity Discovery Corp

00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:54.999
are able to stimulate and encourage
then to continue to create.

00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:59.999
There is a growing amount of evidence uh…
suggesting that those people who have really

00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:04.999
continue to challenge themselves
in many different ways or

00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.999
taking new courses, new
hobbies that are challenging

00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:14.999
and the point I made this, if you feel like your brain is sweaty
sort of like a physical exercise, if you are not sweating,

00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:19.999
you probably not exercising hard enough, if you feel your
brain is sweating, you probably challenging yourself well.

00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:24.999
Crossword puzzles can do this,
word games, everyday creativity,

00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:29.999
so somebody who develops a new
recipe, people love the recipe,

00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.999
it’s a recipe new and its existence is valued, they have
tremendous sense of accomplishment, mastery of control,

00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:40.000
so they go through the same dynamics as
somebody who has create a great painting.

00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.000
[sil.]

00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:14.999
It’s playing around.

00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:19.999
I don’t plan what happens on end of this.

00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.999
I went all the universe, that’s
what the abstract is good,

00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:29.999
no answer on the abstract, no
answers on the universe here.

00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:34.999
[sil.]

00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.999
I’m tired.

00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:45.000
One thing I like about the color, no matter which
way I came out, I designed or not, I don’t know.

00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:54.999
Now go down.

00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:59.999
To my way of thinking it is not healthy
for the development of the soul

00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.999
and the psyche and the talents of the child

00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:09.999
to break them all up into this and this and this and this and this and, this is
music, this is dance, this is music, this is dance, this is speaking, this is drama,

00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.999
they are all one big loop.

00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:19.999
There is a source of creativity within
all the children and of you step aside,

00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:24.999
it will come out, then you
can guide our creativity.

00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:29.999
It’s like I try to take what
nature gave them and build on it,

00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:34.999
to keep them in touch with the… I think Carl Young is a
proof of what I do, keeping in touch with the basic self.

00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:43.000
[music]

00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:49.999
And my dancing teacher was
like another wanderer,

00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:54.999
which had never had any technique but just taught us to
point our toe and sing a little song and do a little motion

00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:59.999
that was dancing. And, when I was older,
I had to redo my entire technique

00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:04.999
and I said this is never going to happen,

00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:09.999
if I teach anybody, they are not going to have to do it again,
and that spurt me on that I wanted to learn how to teach.

00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:14.999
[music]

00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:19.999
I try to turn the evil, or
the bad, or the destructive

00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:24.999
into the constructive, the
living, the positive if I can.

00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:29.999
A lot of times with my pupils, like
somebody else will call him up

00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:34.999
and it’s like scolding,

00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:39.999
a species of scolding, whereas if you are… if you
are careful and just can say the right thing,

00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:44.999
you don’t have to scold. I
think scolding is a horror,

00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:49.999
I know in my old age I get scolded and
it think it’s really, really sick.

00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:54.999
We have some flowers for you.

00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:59.999
Thank you for being her
former dance theater and her…

00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:04.999
I always felt the arts were very close to religion,
the religious concepts and the artistic concepts,

00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.999
in fact I thought religion was the greatest art,
the art world is actually spread more so much,

00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:14.999
this is how I felt. So, anyhow, I felt
I was doing more than just teaching,

00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:19.999
an art not how to point your
toe, but I was also helping

00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.999
with probably you might says souls
of this… the souls of the people.

00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:29.999
I’m so proud of you. I enjoyed it.

00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:34.999
This is good, I started her when she was
a little baby, and Oh! She was so good.

00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:40.000
I missed you.

00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:49.999
Skates and cords, 15 minutes at least

00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:54.999
and the rest is my pieces
everywhere, so I don’t forget them,

00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:59.999
they are precious to me and to hold on.

00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:08.000
[music]

00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:14.999
Everything goes, but the piano
doesn’t go away, that’s forever,

00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:19.999
and I’m grateful for that.

00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:24.999
[music]

00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:29.999
My life is very, very concentrated,
I don’t go out much, you know.

00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:34.999
As long as I’m not really sick,

00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:39.999
I don’t want to get sick and
be in bed all the time.

00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:48.000
[music]

00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:54.999
I’m satisfied with little when one get too
old, I don’t want entertainment all the time,

00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:59.999
I like quite when I’m home,

00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.000
that’s a blessing of getting old.

00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:19.999
I don’t want to stop doing
nothing what I’m doing,

00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:24.999
I want to continue to quilt, there is lot of way in making quilt,
when you make them, you look at them, you quilt, they are beautiful.

00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:29.999
Arionzia Pettway has been quilting in
Gee’s Bend, Alabama since the age of 9.

00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:34.999
Since the age of 78 her quilts
have been touring in art museums,

00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.999
in a collections hailed by the New York Times as
some of the most miraculous works of modern art

00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:44.999
America has produced.

00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:49.999
[music]

00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:54.999
The style, the esthetic in Gee’s
Bend is been uninterrupted,

00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:59.999
and it’s continuous going
back more than a century,

00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:04.999
isn’t… hasn’t had a lot
of outside influences.

00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:09.999
So, the women have just developed.

00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:15.000
And now in their early part of the 21st
century, it’s a highly developed style.

00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:24.999
They’ve been allowed to create and to follow
their own esthetic without having to…

00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:29.999
conform to what somebody
else expects of them,

00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:34.999
maybe that’s what you can see
when you look at the quilts.

00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:39.999
You see joy, and some people
say they see pain and

00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:44.999
they see sorrow, and… and it’s all of that. They
just had freedom to do whatever they wanted.

00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:49.999
I know from having spoken to a lot of
contemporary artist that are so envious

00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:54.999
of people like Arionzia Pettway
who don’t have to listen to

00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:59.999
a gallery director or don’t have to worry
about how museums respond to their work.

00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:04.999
[sil.]

00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.999
Most of the time, women in Gee’s Bend, they don’t… they doesn’t have a
pattern, they lay out at night and they planned to way they want to quilt,

00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:14.999
and they get up and make that quilt. I
working on a uh… crazy quilt right now,

00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:19.999
I’m just about almost got it done.

00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:24.999
[sil.]

00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:29.999
Oh! It is a crazy quilt,
this is crazy blunt.

00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:38.000
[music]

00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:44.999
Sometime you sit in quilt and

00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:49.999
it’s just coming you to start praising god and
thanking god that brought us and deliver us so far.

00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.999
He speak to me and tell me how to put it together,
but sometime I want to go my way and mess up,

00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:59.999
when I mess up, then I
had to rebuild the part,

00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:04.999
yes it have, when I was a young woman, I didn’t try to leave her out,
I just wanted to dance and hold and go out and party over night,

00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:09.999
but after opening my life I changed,
when I was a young women, 25 and 26,

00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:14.999
I used to party all night long.

00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:19.999
When 5 o’clock I had to get up, I had to
get out of bed, but when I were young,

00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.999
I like to lay in the bed till 9 and 10 o’clock,
when I had to go in the field and chop the cotton

00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:29.999
and pool cone peanuts and thing, I want to lay till 10,
by 10 o’clock in the day I wanted to lay down in my bed.

00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:34.999
I also have this for arthritis in my hand,

00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:39.999
I get it in very morning, you know, rub
them down, because I have to quilt,

00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:44.999
and that make feel better when
I have to quilt, losing up

00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:49.999
and get the free one,
it’s good for free one.

00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:54.999
I don’t…I don’t see anything may be, but I get over my head
time, I didn’t like it at first, but now a little bit.

00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:59.999
There are some ideal friend (inaudible)
and he’s a good a little bit,

00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:04.999
and I wish her love me too.

00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:09.999
A person that could get along with the T, we are too low
to be with them, always been teasing lay your hand,

00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:14.999
said thanks to her and never do keep knowing for guess and being
hard to guess for me and I didn’t keep knowing and guess here,

00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:20.000
so I just feel good and working with her.

00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:34.999
[sil.]

00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.999
To me it has to be a red curtain and
it has to come down to the floor.

00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:44.999
And then it has to open
and what do you see?

00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:49.999
[sil.]

00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:54.999
Magic.

00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:59.999
That magic is coming like a…

00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.999
a new world, it’s a whole new world.

00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:09.999
And you can enter if you let yourself,

00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:14.999
I don’t understand people who can’t
let themselves sink into that stage,

00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:19.999
and be part of those flayers,

00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.999
it’s no problem for me,
it does becomes magic.

00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:33.000
[music]

00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.999
What is it that makes people go, I suppose it’s my imagination
that keeps my energy up, because it’s always working.

00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:59.999
I’ve always wanted to have
my own little theater,

00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:04.999
any little spot in my apartment that I
can make into kind of a little theater,

00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:09.999
I do, in its own way, I do,
because I love illusion.

00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:18.000
[music]

00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:24.999
I’ve been making living by theater and movies
print, little TV things that come along,

00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:29.999
it’s perfectly possible to do if you want to go out on the auditions
or you want to go in the go seats where there might be a 300 people

00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:34.999
and you stand in line in the rain
or I do extra work in the movies,

00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:39.999
I don’t really care what I do as long
as I like the people I’m working with.

00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:44.999
[music]

00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.999
Everybody loves me, and she is getting
more eccentric as she gets older,

00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:54.999
I she is pretty eccentric
when I was young. One, two.

00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:59.999
And she is strong, she is really strong,

00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:04.999
I mean, yesterday she was
out working 14 hours.

00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:13.000
[music]

00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:19.999
Mimi is driven, to say that Mimi is driven, I think it’s something I
could say. Why she is driven? In the way that she is, I can’t found out.

00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:24.999
Rise above it what one does,

00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:29.999
we are not supposed to
be happy, happy, happy

00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:34.999
uh… and jumping for joy every second

00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:39.999
and so when you have these
things, you rise about it.

00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:44.999
It’s funny, the older you get,
the less you dwell on anything

00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.999
miserable that has
happened, you just don’t,

00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:54.999
if you do, you really done for, you
might have followed your tent,

00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:59.999
silently still wall.

00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:04.999
That’s it, now you got it. But as
you do use your solar plexus here,

00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:09.999
use your stomach to hold you up
and keep you in your balance,

00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:14.999
and then you remember this.

00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:19.999
Up and down and up and
down and up and down.

00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:24.999
[music]

00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:29.999
Side step, step, step, cross,
side, step, step, step, cross,

00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:34.999
side, side, step, step, cross,
side, side, step, step, cross,

00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:39.999
back, back, back, back, back, back,

00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:44.999
the back. Yes.

00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:49.999
Feel that I’m you conscious

00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:54.999
and I’m telling you… Up, up… Feel
the stiff up in your back. Yes.

00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:59.999
Lovely. There you go. Let
the chest go up to sky,

00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:04.999
feel that your stern is catching light.

00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:10.000
I’m coming Deck, I’m on my way.

00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:24.999
All the lines have gone.

00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:29.999
The wrinkles that I had, all disappeared.

00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:34.999
Ladies and gents, this is call
is on stage, keep on working…

00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:39.999
Frederic Franklin was one of the original
dancers to introduce ballet to America

00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:44.999
in the 1930s. over his 70 plus year career,

00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:49.999
Freddie originated many roles like
choreographers, who invented ballet,

00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:54.999
such as Léonide Massine
and George Balanchine.

00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:59.999
Today at the age of 90, he
is at the Cincinnati Ballet,

00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.999
playing the role of the
Friar in Romeo and Juliet.

00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:09.999
I’m always amazed. I can walk on in New
York City as the Friar and I get applause,

00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:14.999
and I love it. At my age it’s just right.

00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:19.999
I can do it and I can express
things and use my arms and hands,

00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:25.000
oh, I’ll just have a lovely time.

00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:34.999
I came in yesterday and I had to learn
it all over again, it’s different.

00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:39.999
Certain things are being emphasized, in
this production there is not in the other.

00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:44.999
Okay. All right. Let’s do this again.

00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:49.999
But I’ll get there by the time reopen. I’ve
never given up, and I won’t, not yet anyway.

00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:55.000
[music]

00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:04.999
In addition to performing

00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:09.999
Freddie helps to preserve great master pieces of ballet.
Here is coaching La Sonnambula by George Balachine,

00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:14.999
which originally debuted in 1946.

00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:19.999
It’s giving the artist the essence,

00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:24.999
I mean you can teach that if you can teach
movements and what does it all mean.

00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:29.999
Then the coach comes along and says, now if you try this, this
will work this way and that will work that way and don’t forget

00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:34.999
more face, more head, more arms,

00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:39.999
because that’s his… that’s
the artists’ audience.,

00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:48.000
[music]

00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:29.999
I never thought that they
have any constrains,

00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:34.999
I never have ever envision them as having anything they
couldn’t do. I think it’s more having the opportunity

00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:39.999
and having a supportive environment
to be as fulfilled as you can.

00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:44.999
The ground we meet them on is on
this creative emotional area,

00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:49.999
art, music and dramas, some… some
poetry, the cool thing, you know that…

00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:54.999
that is going to be very much part
of the language of communication.

00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:59.999
By structuring creative activities,

00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:04.999
it is the most direct line to being with them, it gives,
you know, vehicles for the staff to be in their presence,

00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:09.999
in a very supportive way for everybody,

00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.999
because the communication is happening.

00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:19.999
We know, and I would never say to anyone
that this is not a dreadful disease,

00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:24.999
I would never say that this doesn’t change your family structure and change
probably what you had in mind for your golden years or as a loved one,

00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:29.999
and daughter caring for your parents.
The reality is it’s happening,

00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.999
and in that happening we’ve got to find
something that embraces the essence,

00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:39.999
the… the core essence of that human,
and… and it’s not just the grief,

00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:44.999
it’s not just the depression. They still
are very capable of creating joy.

00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:49.999
The fashion was a glorious,
glorious testament

00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:54.999
to our program and what
we are trying to do here.

00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:59.999
Keeping people active, giving them something
that they can feel a sense of pride in.

00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:04.999
We’re are making sure they are contributing so much to the
joy of others, contributing their experience in clothing,

00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:09.999
contributing the cultural dress,
these things are part of who we are.

00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:14.999
And… and sharing that with each other and
doing in a way that’s respectful and joyful,

00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:19.999
that sense of being part of something or being
accepted for who they are, it’s just great.

00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:24.999
[sil.]

00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:29.999
Nobody in the room have memory loss

00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.999
at that time of that fashion show was going on,
nobody in that room had a diagnosis of dimension.

00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:39.999
It was a glorious moment of people shining,

00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:44.999
people who didn’t play the piano got up and played the
piano and we didn’t even know they play the piano.

00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.999
People who didn’t even want to participate, all of
sudden getting up and giggle boggle down the walkway,

00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:54.999
people who wore the traditional clothing,

00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:59.999
the pride to show their
traditions and who they were.

00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.999
I was so honored to be a
part of that fashion show.

00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:09.999
The dimension was so secondary to people
which… which it is… it is, it’s just a

00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:15.000
piece of someone’s story.

00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:54.999
Well, my father really enjoys music, and because
you can get it here, it really brings them out of…

00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:59.999
he is separate from depression,
he is 88 years old.

00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.999
It is fantastic for him, he enjoys it.

00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:09.999
And I can tell when he is participating in those
programs, because there is a difference in him.

00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:14.999
I actually more interested
in being with people

00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:19.999
that are celebrating
something, and… and people

00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:24.999
that have gone through many years of having
living, have a certain amount of mastery,

00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:29.999
it’s an acknowledgement I
guess of… of their life,

00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:34.999
celebrating a sort of like the physical organ, they say begins
and end with the heartbeat, so, you know, drumming is time,

00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:39.999
you got to keep time when you drum, that’s
the heart beat, you know, medium tempo.

00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:44.999
This is a group dynamic and energy gets
raised, you know, even above the group,

00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:49.999
you know, with the group
brings in it is one thing,

00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:54.999
but then by the end there is
something else that happens.

00:26:55.000 --> 00:27:03.000
[music]