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Storyteller, musician, poet, actor, writer and music therapist David Gonzalez is a one-of-a-kind artist. He has created numerous productions that combine compelling drama, music, and multimedia; all of which enchant audiences nationwide with stories of love, hope, courage, and wisdom. His awards are too numerous to mention, his projects prodigious, but it is his latest one that intrigues me most: Crisálida, a McCallum Theatre Community Arts Project. Kate Buckley: David, you are an award-winning musician, actor, poet, writer, and storyteller. Have you always been a performer? David Gonzalez: I guess you could say we are all performers, as Shakespere said “…all the world’s a stage…” My performance career started at age seven when my uncle made me a puppet theater out of plywood, my grandmother supplied red velvet curtains, and I made characters out of paper bags and socks. Activating the imagination has been at the core of all I do, from my living room in the Bronx to Broadway. KB: And you’re not only a performer but also a professional public speaker—on topics ranging from creativity to culture. How did this additional career path come about? DG: About 15 years ago I started receiving calls from colleges and corporations interested in two different subjects; creativity and cultural awareness. As a creative artist and educator I take the position that creativity is an inherent, though often atrophied, faculty in all people. As a contemporary bilingual Hispanic (my parents are from Puerto Rico and Cuba) I use poetry and stories to show how our biographies inform us, and how our shared humanity transcends the circumstances of our birth. KB: You earned a doctoral degree from New York University in Music Therapy, and have conducted numerous seminars, workshops and lectures, and worked as a music therapist in clinical and educational institutions. How does this part of your life differ from the performance art? DG: As a therapist, the sole concern is the well-being of the client. All the choices, activities and interventions are focused on eliciting and encouraging the curative resources available to one particular person at one particular time. This work is potent because of the uniqueness of the relationship, and the uniqueness of the client. As a performing artist, I am concerned with creating aesthetic objects (plays, music, poems) that satisfy my curiosity while serving a greater good for the community. I like to say that I create work that is intended to “function” in the world—that it does something, has an impact, makes a difference. KB: You are also the Artistic Director for The Alliance for a New Humanity, an international service organization dedicated to peace and sustainability. That sounds fascinating—tell me more about that. DG: It was a blast to bring the arts to this mix of brain-powered social activists. We produced a number of international conferences and I got to hang with Noble Peace Prize winners, thinkers from many fields, and front-line foot soldiers for all sorts of conscious causes. One highlight was the closing concert I produced at the National Theater in San Jose, Costa Rica… I don’t think I’ll ever forget Deepak Chopra singing “We Are Family” with the Youth Symphony Orchestra led by guest conductor Niles Rodgers, the Grammy-winning composer of that amazing anthem. KB: A master storyteller and lover of myth, you were named a Joseph Campbell Foundation Fellow in 2010. What’s your hero’s journey been? DG: Joseph Campbell saved me. In my twenties I was lost in the morass of psychological/spiritual questing. I was going to therapy, workshops, trying this and that, but when I read Campbell’s brilliant “Hero With A Thousand Faces” everything changed. Through his profound understanding of world myth and religion he liberated within me a love of story, and ignited a curiosity about myth in my own life. This is a really big question, we’d need a lot of time and ink to cover it—suffice to say that the great boon of my professional life has been to trust the creative impulse, to listen deeply, and to leap, even if I don’t yet see the ground in front of me. KB: Which brings me to the latest adventure in your journey: Crisálida—a MacCallum Theatre Community Arts project with a mission to inspire, chronicle, create, and celebrate the community’s cultural experience. That’s an ambitious and loosely defined mandate! Can you elaborate? DG: Under the stewardship of the McCallum’s director Mitch Gershenfeld, the institution is seeking to broaden its reach beyond its glorious stages and lobbies, out to the community. The McCallum Theater Institute, under the direction of Kajsa Thurssen-Frary, has done a phenomenal job bringing arts experiences to valley kids, the Crisalida Community Arts project intends to extend that success to the East Valley cities of Indio, Coachella, Thermal and Mecca, and the Salton Sea. We have received a two-year grant from the James Irvine Foundation to support the project. The first year is devoted to learning about the communities, building relationships, finding out what is already happening out there, and listening to how the communities want to develop their art-making. Then in the second year, we will start to enact the plan that emerges from this in-depth observation. I can say that we’ve already jump-started the process with lots of workshops, performances, collaborations and planning already happening. KB: How do you plan to gather the stories, and how do you plan to share them with the larger community? DG: At first we will explore the Story Corps model in which two people who know one another very well come to one of our pop-up recording booths (like the one that was at the Synergy Festival in Coachella recently), and one person interviews the other about important events in their lives, and what they have learned. These stories will be made available online through www.crisalida-arts.org, on our blog, and on our dedicated Vimeo page. There will also be story circles at a wide variety of community centers, senior centers, food banks, churches, parks…you name it. We hope to create a collage/documentary from the interviews that will be shown publicly. KB: You’re based in New York, but will be spending six months over the next few years in Palm Springs to work on the project. How’s your time been so far? How has it been working with the community around Crisálida? DG: I’ve worked at the McCallum consistently for the past ten years, but always in the tremendously busy mindset of a performer putting on a show. This project has already allowed me to get to know the landscape and the people in a much better way. I rented a house in the hills above Palm Desert in September and each morning woke to the vast sky, and each evening I’d sit outside to contemplate the starry night. The days were spent meeting one fascinating person after the other. I’ve written a lot about it in the blog: www.crisalida-arts.blogspot.com KB: I think it’s safe to call you multi-talented! Do you have a favorite discipline? What’s the common denominator in all you do? DG: Music. Groove is behind everything I do…” It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.” When I’m not telling stories or doing this arts activist work you will find me playing the guitar, original works for classical guitar in the concert hall, funk and rock on my Fender Telecaster at the club. KB: What would you be doing if you weren’t creating or performing? DG: Some combo of archeologist, monk, and gentleman-of-leisure. KB: What do you love most about your time thus far in Palm Springs? DG: Tacos and orchata lunch for $5, and all the amazing people!
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Scéalaí, ceoltóir, file, aisteoir, scríbhneoir agus teiripeoir ceoil David Gonzalez Is ealaíontóir aon-de-a-chineál. Tá sé cruthaithe go leor léirithe a chur le chéile drámaíocht láidre, ceol, agus ilmheán; gach ceann acu lucht féachana ar fud na tíre le draíocht scéalta an ghrá, dóchas, misneach, agus ghaois. Tá a chuid dámhachtainí ar fad a lua, a dtionscadail prodigious, ach tá sé ar a cheann is déanaí a intrigues dom an chuid is mó: Crisálida, Tionscadal Ealaíon Pobail Amharclann McCallum . Kate Buckley: David, tá tú a bhuaigh duaiseanna ceoltóir, aisteoir, file, scríbhneoir, agus scéalaí. An bhfuil tú i gcónaí ina ghníomhaí? David Gonzalez: buille faoi thuairim mé d'fhéadfá a rá go bhfuil muid go léir taibheoirí, mar a dúirt Shakespere "... léir ar fud an domhain a chur le céim ..." Thosaigh Mo gairme feidhmíochta ag seacht aois nuair a rinne mo uncail dom amharclann puipéad as sraithadhmaid, ar fáil mo sheanmháthair cuirtíní veilbhit dearg , agus rinne mé carachtair as málaí páipéir agus stocaí. Activating an samhlaíocht a bhí i gcroílár gach a ndéanaimid liom, ó mo seomra suí sa Bronx go Broadway. KB: Agus tá tú nach bhfuil ach taibheoir ach freisin gairmiúil cainteoir-ar poiblí ábhair ó cruthaitheacht a gcultúr. Conas a rinne an cosán gairme breise a thagann faoi? Ard-Stiúrthóireacht: Maidir le 15 bliain ó shin a thosaigh mé glaonna ó choláistí agus corparáidí suim acu i dhá ábhar éagsúla a fháil; cruthaitheacht agus feasacht chultúrtha. Mar ealaíontóir cruthaitheach agus oideachasóir a ghlacadh mé an seasamh go bhfuil cruthaitheacht ina cuid dhílis, cé go atrophied minic, dáimhe i ngach duine. Toisc go (tá mo thuismitheoirí ó Pórtó Ríce agus Cúba) a comhaimseartha dátheangach Hispanic úsáid mé filíochta agus scéalta chun a thaispeáint conas lenár beathaisnéisí dúinn, agus an chaoi a transcends ár ndaonnacht roinnte imthosca ar ár breithe. KB: thuill tú céim dochtúireachta ó Nua-Eabhrac Ollscoil sa Cheol Teiripe, agus tá a rinneadh seimineáir éagsúla, ceardlanna agus léachtaí, agus d'oibrigh sé mar teiripeoir ceoil in institiúidí cliniciúla agus oideachais. Conas a chuid seo de do shaol difriúil ó an ealaín feidhmíochta? DG: Mar teiripeoir, is é an t-aon imní ar an dea-bhail an chliaint. Gach na roghanna, gníomhaíochtaí agus idirghabhálacha dírithe ar a mhealladh agus na hacmhainní atá ar fáil do leighis duine amháin faoi leith a spreagadh ag aon am amháin ar leith. Tá an obair seo potent mar gheall ar an uathúlacht an gcaidreamh, agus uathúlacht an chliaint. Mar ealaíontóir ag feidhmiú, Tá mé buartha le chruthú rudaí aeistéitiúla (drámaí, ceol, dánta) a shásamh mo fiosracht ag fónamh maith níos mó don phobal agam. Is maith liom a rá go bhfuil mé ag obair a chruthú go bhfuil sé i gceist le "feidhm" ar fud an domhain-go ndéanann sé rud éigin, tá tionchar dhéanann, difríocht. KB: Tá tú freisin an Stiúrthóir Ealaíne do An Comhaontas le haghaidh Daonnachta Nua, eagraíocht seirbhís idirnáisiúnta atá tiomanta do na síochána agus inbhuanaitheacht. Sin fuaimeanna iontach-inis dom níos mó faoi sin. Ard-Stiúrthóireacht: Bhí sé BLAST chun na healaíona a thabhairt chuig an meascán de inchinn á gcumhachtú gníomhaígh sóisialta. Tháirgtear muid ar roinnt comhdhálacha idirnáisiúnta agus fuair mé a chrochadh le buaiteoirí Duais Síochána Noble, smaointeoirí ó go leor réimsí, agus saighdiúirí coise líne tosaigh le haghaidh gach cineál na cúiseanna comhfhiosach. Buaicphointe amháin an cheolchoirm deiridh a tháirgtear mé ag an pictiúrlann Náisiúnta i San Jose, Costa Rica ... Ní dóigh liom go mbainfidh mé dearmad riamh Deepak Chopra ag canadh "An bhfuil muid Teaghlaigh" leis an Ceolfhoireann Shiansach Óige faoi stiúir aoi stiúrthóir Niles Rodgers, an Grammy-bhuaigh cumadóir den amhrán iontach. KB: A scéalaí mháistir agus leannán de Myth, bhí ainmnithe agat Comhalta Fondúireacht Joseph Campbell i 2010. Cad turas do laoch a bhí? Ard-Stiúrthóireacht: Joseph Campbell slán mé. I mo fichidí a bhí caillte mé i morass de síceolaíoch questing / spioradálta. Bhí mé ag dul go dtí teiripe, ceardlanna, ag iarraidh seo agus go bhfuil, ach nuair a léigh mé Campbell iontach "Laoch Le A Thousand Faces" a athrú gach rud. Tríd a chuid tuiscint as cuimse ar Myth an domhain agus reiligiúin liberated sé laistigh dom grá scéal, agus adhaint le fiosracht faoi Myth i mo shaol féin. Is ceist i ndáiríre mór, ba mhaith linn gá a lán ama agus dúch a chlúdach sé-leor a rá go bhfuil an chabhair mhór de mo shaol gairmiúil a bhí chun muinín an impulse cruthaitheach, éisteacht go domhain, agus a leap, fiú amháin más rud é Ní féidir liom a fheiceáil go fóill ar an talamh i os comhair dom. KB: A thugann dom ar an eachtra is déanaí i do thuras: Crisálida-tionscadal Ealaíon Pobail Amharclann MacCallum a bhfuil misean a spreagadh, chroinic, a chruthú, agus a cheiliúradh taithí cultúrtha an phobail. Sin an sainordú uaillmhianach agus mar a shainmhínítear scaoilte! An féidir leat a tharraingt suas? Ard-Stiúrthóireacht: Faoi stiúir an stiúrthóir ar an McCallum ar Mitch Gershenfeld, tá an institiúid ag iarraidh a leathnú a bhaint amach thar a céimeanna glórmhar agus lobbies, amach don phobal. An pictiúrlann Institiúid McCallum, faoi stiúir Kajsa Thurssen-Frary, déanta post phenomenal a thabhairt imeachtaí ealaíne do na páistí ghleann, ar intinn ag an tionscadal Ealaíne Crisalida an Chomhphobail chun go rath a leathnú go dtí na cathracha Ghleann Thoir INDIO, Coachella, Teirmeach agus Mecca, agus an Mhuir Salton. Tá deontas dhá bhliain ón James Irvine Fondúireacht chun tacú leis an tionscadal faighte againn. Is é an chéad bhliain a bheidh dírithe ar foghlaim faoi na pobail, caidrimh a thógáil, a fháil amach cad atá ag tarlú amach ann cheana féin, agus ag éisteacht le conas ba mhaith na pobail a fhorbairt a dhéanamh ealaíne-. Ansin, sa dara bliain, beidh muid tús a achtú an plean a thagann as an bhreathnóireacht in-depth. Is féidir liom a rá go againn cheana féin a léim-tús leis an bpróiseas le go leor de cheardlanna, léirithe, comhoibriú agus pleanáil ag tarlú cheana féin. KB: Cén chaoi a intinn agat a bhailiú na scéalta, agus conas a intinn agat chun iad a roinnt leis an bpobal níos mó? Ard-Stiúrthóireacht: Ar dtús beidh muid iniúchadh a dhéanamh ar an tsamhail Scéal Cór ina dhá daoine a bhfuil a fhios a chéile teacht go han-mhaith le duine dár pop-up booths taifeadta (cosúil leis an ceann a bhí ag an Fhéile Synergy i Coachella déanaí), agus agallaimh duine an ceann eile faoi imeachtaí tábhachtacha ina saol, agus cad a d'fhoghlaim siad. Beidh na scéalta a chur ar fáil ar líne trí www.crisalida-arts.org , ar ár n-bhlag, agus ar ár leathanach Vimeo tiomanta. Beidh a bheith ann freisin ciorcail scéal ar raon leathan na n-ionad pobail, ionaid sinsearach, bainc bia, séipéil, páirceanna ... ainm tú é. Tá súil againn a chruthú colláis / faisnéise ó na hagallaimh a bheidh a thaispeáint go poiblí. KB: Tá tú ag bunaithe i Nua-Eabhrac, ach beidh a bheith ag caitheamh sé mhí thar na blianta atá romhainn i Palm Springs a bheith ag obair ar an tionscadal. Conas do chuid ama a bhí go dtí seo? Cén chaoi a bhfuil a bhí sé ag obair leis an bpobal ar fud Crisálida? DG: Tá mé ag obair ar an McCallum go seasta le deich mbliana anuas, ach i gcónaí ar an meon tremendously gnóthach de taibheoir chur ar thaispeáint. Tá an tionscadal seo cead cheana liom a fháil a fhios ag an tírdhreach agus na daoine ar bhealach i bhfad níos fearr. Teach ar cíos mé sna cnoic os cionn Palm Desert i mí Mheán Fómhair agus gach maidin dhúisigh an spéir ollmhór, agus gach tráthnóna ba mhaith liom suí taobh amuigh a contemplate an oíche starry. Bhí na laethanta a chaitear cruinniú duine suimiúil i ndiaidh a chéile. Tá mé scríofa go leor faoi sé sa bhlag: www.crisalida-arts.blogspot.com KB: Sílim go bhfuil sé sábháilte a ghlaonn tú il-cumasach! An bhfuil tú smacht is fearr leat? Cad é an comhainmneoir i ngach a dhéanann tú? DG: Ceol. Tá Groove taobh thiar gach rud is féidir liom ... "Tá sé nach chiallaíonn rud más rud é nach bhfuil sé fuair go swing." Nuair nach bhfuil mé ag insint scéalta nó ag déanamh seo a healaíona oibre gníomhaí gheobhaidh tú ag imirt dom an ghiotár, oibreacha bunaidh clasaiceach giotár sa halla ceolchoirme, Funk agus carraig ar mo Fender Telecaster ag an gclub. KB: Cad ba mhaith leat a bheith ag déanamh más rud é nach raibh tú ag a chruthú nó ag comhlíonadh? Ard-Stiúrthóireacht: Roinnt teaglama de archeologist, manach, agus uasal-de-fóillíochta. KB: Cad a dhéanann tú grá an chuid is mó mar gheall ar do chuid ama go dtí seo i Palm Springs? Ard-Stiúrthóireacht: tacos agus lón orchata do $ 5, agus na daoine go léir iontach!