GRAEME MURPHY The Frock (excerpts)

Stella Motion Pictures

Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon created THE FROCK with the wonderful ladies and dancers of M.A.D.E (Mature Artists Dance Experience) in Tasmania. Enjoy, laugh and be surprised! #graememurphy #australiadance #dance

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00:00Satsang with Mooji

00:30Satsang with Mooji

01:00Satsang with Mooji

01:30who despite a number of owners, one minor operation, only 16 stitches, and a narrow escape from conversion to a mini skirt, is still a class act.

01:41I marvel that you could afford me a one-off from the mainland, though heaven knows you left me languishing and laid by for months.

01:51But I was worth it. I transformed you.

01:59I used to make all your clothes since you were a baby.

02:04Christenings, brownies, school uniforms.

02:08Ah, and Sunday school dresses.

02:10You look so much better than the other girls.

02:14Yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible just bestowed.

02:21All His bright and beautiful, all His earth's great and strong.

02:29All His earth's great and strong.

02:41The Kabbalah tells a legend.

02:54At the beginning, God said,

03:03Let there be light!

03:10Out of space, a flame burst out.

03:14God crushed that light to atoms.

03:30Myriads of sparks are hidden in our world, but not all of us behold them.

03:37The self-glorious who walks arrogantly, our bright will never perceive one.

03:46But the meek and modest, eyes downcast, He sees it.

03:55A light is sown for the pious.

04:00In the name of God, we solemnly proclaim that every transgressor,

04:09be it that he was unfaithful to our people because of fear,

04:15or mislead my false doctrines of any kind,

04:19out of weakness or greed, we give him leave to be one with us in prayer tonight.

04:27A light. A light is sown for the repenting sin.

04:42I hadn't actually done anything bad.

04:44I was just thinking a lot about boys and dancing.

04:49Yes, it wasn't until a few years later that you realised

04:55if your mum kept making your clothes, you'd end up an old maid.

05:00I was ready for my first proper dance with boys.

05:07I never felt before, there's a girl at my side.

05:12That I adore, there's a glow in my heart.

05:19I never felt before.

05:22I never felt before.

05:23I'm gonna tell Aunt Mary about Uncle John.

05:25He claims he has a misery, but he having a lot of fun.

05:28Oh, baby.

05:29Yes, baby.

05:32Whoo, baby.

05:34Having me some fun tonight.

05:37Yeah.

05:38Well, long, tall Sally, she's a beautiful species of God.

05:42Everything that Uncle John needs, oh, baby.

05:45Yeah, baby.

05:47Whoo, baby.

05:50Having me some fun tonight.

05:53We all know how well that ended.

05:56The smell of burning rubber and little misconception

05:59and me in the back of the FJ.

06:03Her shattered, me splattered.

06:07Meanwhile, Mr. Mino opens a clutch and the girls light up.

06:16All in love.

06:17Yes, baby.

06:18Then we just, let me know back.

06:20It's late.

06:21I'm crying.

06:22I think you know.

06:23No matter what, the hell of us is,

06:26the shrily pools.

06:27No matter what we're doing,

06:28we just don't have enough fun-like.

06:30Even we are, we are hoping that we can do it.

06:31Everything that you're waiting for,

06:32we have to be, we have to be, you know?

06:33Yes, you're listening to our friends.

06:34We are hoping that we can do it.

06:36When you're, we're hoping that we're not happy.

06:37We are still here, and we are hoping that we are.

06:39On our hearts, we have to be part of the summer world.

06:40We are not happy.

06:41We are hoping that we are not happy when it comes next to life.

06:43Oh, my God.

07:13Oh, my God.

07:43I retired at 65.

07:48I'd made good money.

07:50When the invitation to the reunion came,

07:54I thought,

07:55why not?

07:56I'm crossing you in style.

08:22Someday, oh, dream maker,

08:33you heartbreaker.

08:36Wherever you're going,

08:43I'm going your way.

08:49Two drifters

08:52off to see the world.

08:56There's such a lot of world to see.

09:05Moon river

09:20Wider than a mile.

09:26I'm crossing you in style someday.

09:32Oh, dream maker,

09:39you heartbreaker.

09:44Wherever you're going,

09:50I'm going your way.

09:55Two drifters

10:02off to see the world.

10:06There's such a lot of world to see.

10:13And we're after the same rainbows.

10:28We were leaving the age of Aquarius

10:45and entering the age of invisibility.

10:52Men looked through us.

10:55Capitalism focused on youth.

10:58Governments feared our growing numbers.

11:01And so we bonded in horticulture.

11:04In gumboots and gardening gloves,

11:08wielding whippersnippers,

11:09wheelbarrows and secateurs,

11:11our groups amass.

11:13And like an army

11:14who knows death is nigh,

11:17we bond.

11:20Don't tell us death is dark.

11:22We look at autumn's yellow,

11:25amber, gold, scarlet.

11:28And know death is life reimagined.

11:32Compost is future life force.

11:35Decay is a mushroom's mother.

11:38And dry seeds sprinkled with tears

11:41spawn sunflowers.

11:52Teilen

12:05Saat

12:08Cons много

12:10اض

12:12Maas

12:12Saat

12:13Ola

12:14Saat

12:20don't fear our journey is yours we are the dress rehearsal for your own garden of pain and delight

12:36my body speaks in broken tongues my breath pumps dusty limpid lungs but still i fly

12:47my fingers float past tired eyes as beautiful as crooked lies they once could tiny needles thread

12:59but now ask questions of the dead but still i fly

13:07slack wings hung low from brittle bones beat empty air raise naught but groans my waist once hourglass

13:20sadly has become a plump parenthesis which holds two exclamation marks my breasts descending meadowlarks

13:29but still i fly i've had many lovers but only three great loves a child i've never known

13:44gardening and up shopping

13:47that dress is so beautiful yes it's an amazing frock i was thinking of buying it again but it would

14:03look so much better on you do you think yes can i buy it for you no i couldn't possibly yes it was made

14:09for you it's as good as new except for a bit of damage on the petticoat

14:16for once i didn't say anything but i knew they knew and i was imagining all the catch-ups they were

14:25gonna have kids grandkids life's highs and lows fjs and frocks a whole moon river of memories

14:40i am a bit teary

14:44she will never wear me again but her dna permeates the fabric of my being

14:50and her spirit inhabits my hems and folds they say the frock maketh the woman

15:00but this woman completes me as she herself is made whole by a daughter's love

15:08sorry i really am gonna cry i'm clearly not as color fast as today's synthetics

15:16but i trust you'll forgive an old frock

15:18after all i witnessed the moment of conception and we've all just witnessed the magic of reunion

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