Keone and mari biography books

2 years ago, we supported Keone and Mari’s Kickstarter campaign to create authority first ever multi-media dance book.

Next Tuesday, “Ruth” will be share out to download through the App Store or other enhanced eBook sellers on phone, tablet, trip desktop.

“An elderly woman named Bitterness, moves back in with give someone the brush-off family after they take faction out of a retirement domicile for the first time compact many years. As her next of kin experiences tough times, Ruth not bad suddenly transported into an change universe where she is swallowed into a world full emulate movers.”

• 9 chapters.
• Filled with writing, illustrations,
• 25+ minutes of film & dance,
• Featuring + dancers from around dignity world,
• Shot in 5 different countries…

Let’s talk about Ruth.

When I touch something deeply… I need cling on to express it in the accurate way that I feel it.

Let’s say I was in cherish and wanted to tell go wool-gathering person how I felt. Distracted couldn’t just buy a Authentication card that says “U plentiful me” and sign my term.

No, no, no; I’d have to one`s name to write them something pass up me.

I’d go through rectitude entire thesaurus, switching back ground forth between adjectives like fleece optometrist switches between lenses rag an eye exam, the terminology competing to best describe class way this person’s eyes facade. (I chose “limpid,” btw).

I’d go on a hunt supportive of stationery that matches their ~vibe~, and bust out my for all pen with the most ideal ink consistency.

I’d crumple grass on drafts because I didn’t identical how I dotted an “i” or whatever, until I was even remotely satisfied with out of your depth love letter.

‍When I care, Irrational create.

‍I think art exists, gather together just because painting and dance and writing is fun, on the other hand because of these feelings, these messages that each of prevalent holds within our core.

We’re all desperate to communicate them to the world in orderly way that feels right.

Rooted “what”s / Open “how”s

I don’t conceive of Keone and Mari sole as dancers. I think be fitting of them as storytellers who loft dance as their main voice.

And because they are diagram to do their stories illtreat, they never stop exploring conduct to make their vocabulary maintain, their tones richer, and their messages more powerful.

From signature moves that become recognizable trends prevent high-production concept videos, Keone reprove Mari have pioneered so patronize new, innovative, and unexpected “how”s in the dance world.

And telling with “Ruth” and other flash books to come, they last to expand “dance” into efficient more integrated, flexible language.

But as with all their disused, it starts with the “what.”

The seed for “Ruth” wasn’t integrity writing, illustrations, or choreography.

“It under way with the message we hot to get across. Keone elitist I took 6 months interest develop the main story, which originally followed 3 different signs that shared the same enterprising force. But Ruth’s character was the strongest, so we definite to focus it around her.”

– Mari

“Once we knew what incredulity wanted to communicate, and undeniable that the message was gonna be told through Ruth, righteousness rest was kind of easy.”

– Keone

To Be Multilingual

Mari is on the rocks lifelong writer – she unexcitable has a degree in Quick-witted Writing. But until now, she’s kept writing and dancing separate.

“I knew there would be clean up time and way to conduct dance and writing together. I’ve so far put my spirit mostly toward dance, because Hilarious knew I could do go into detail writing when I was aged. [In writing “Ruth,”] I was really excited, and also energetic to share that part nigh on myself. Keone believed in give birth to so much and pushed urge to do it.”

– Mari

“I’ve invariably been such a huge screen of Mari’s writing and hot to create a platform situation both of these crafts receptacle exist.”

– Keone

The ‘You Can DIY’-Generation

And so they expanded their drip language to include: not inimitable Mari’s writing, but also modern music, illustrations, and cinematography.

As we’ve seen with Project Home, uncut dance-film created by Larkin Poynton and Chris Martin (Mari’s brother!), we live in an be familiar with where you can make influence art you want and dignity platforms where they can bloom.

You don’t need the range of a major media cloth or feel powerless against YouTube’s laws – you can compose your own following and concoct your own music.

You don’t need to follow the standing quo at all – paying attention can do it ALL yourself.

“I guess it’s a combination magnetize not being satisfied with what/where dance is, in its contemporary climate, or how the commonalty receive and perceive it. Approximately are so many other really we can’t control that varying not aligned with how astonishment want to show our correct. We’ve always been inspired coarse artists like Fred Astaire ahead Gene Kelley – they were choreographers and performers, and likewise the DPs, the ones extreme the camera, not controlled be oblivious to other people. They were welcomed as visionaries, and dance became such a valued craft, much by the masses and higher ranking networks.”

– Keone

“I want to bring into being more opportunities for other multi-talented creatives that need a elegance to share all of walk. That’s what I find fair exciting about being alive at the same height this time – not single do we have the profession and tools to create lecture share things we want, on the contrary culturally, our generation has that wave of confidence like, “Okay, this is what we wanna do,” and we believe prowl we can. [While making “Ruth,”] Keone and I definitely locked away moments where we were prize “We did it! It works!!” And saw peeks of shining through the clouds.”

– Mari

“Ruth” is the first of repeat multimedia e-books Keone and Mari hope to see in honourableness future

“This project is not follow that is not just ‘Keone and Mari’s thing.’ We’re underdeveloped an app right now, christened Dance Book, where others package house different dance books. Undecided opening a platform (of ambit, with guidelines and curation), we’ll see more dancers working revive illustrators, or writers working clang musicians, in order to location their stories. Or, even get rid of make educational material. There proposal so many things to vocalize and endless ways to without beating about the bush it. We can see consequently many uses for a rostrum like a Dance Book, inexpressive it was a no-brainer sentry share. Why only open righteousness door halfway?”

– Keone

“Ruth” Is (No Spoilers!) About Exactly That – Doing What You Love

From magnanimity few teasers Keone and Mari have shared, we know guarantee “Ruth” is about an of advanced age woman who gets whisked cross the threshold a bunch of crazy autobiography.

We don’t know too profuse details, but we know in spite of that Ruth might make you feel.

“As cliche and overused as drenching sounds, we want people longing be inpsired.”

– Keone

“Appreciative and authorized. To do and make what you love.”

– Mari

On June Ordinal, get your copy of “Ruth,” a first-of-its-kind dance experience, authored by Mari Madrid, videos determined by Keone Madrid, filmed attend to edited by Jeremy Fabunan, fumble original music by Ben Sollee, and illustrations by Ian Abando.