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    612-822-4611

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To Dance On Sands

To Dance On Sands

Becket, Marta

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ISBN10: 1681398923
ISBN13: 9781681398921
Publisher: Page Publishing
Published: Nov 19 2021
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
About Marta Becket . . . Tears came to my eyes. Marta represented to me the spirit of the individual. The spirit of the theater. The spirit of creativity. -Ray Bradbury, Author Marta's paintings have a degree of humor and playfulness. The use of color is outstanding and tell of a generosity, talent and skill. -Red Skelton, Comedian/Artist Long before anybody invented the term performance art, Marta Becket was doing it, in an abandoned opera house in Death Valley Junction. She restored it and it restored her. With serene tenacity, she set down roots, working hard for decades, caring as well for endangered animals, including wild burros, until the world began coming to her. -Boston Globe Becket's saga epitomizes the eternal struggle of the artist for personal expression. - Chicago Tribune The forthright artist went on with what essentially was her own private show. She choreographed and performed her own dances, at first to an audience of tumbleweeds. But over the course of years, she painstakingly developed another audience - the Renaissance-looking crowd she painted in elaborate murals to fill her Amargosa Opera House with gawking spectators. Eventually Becket was discovered by living audiences, mostly appreciators of art, who have gone to great lengths to see her work. Becket overcame much and worked hard to get where she is today, a relatively unknown artist in the middle of nowhere. But she loves her unique place in the world. -San Francisco Chronicle If this were fiction - if Marta Becket were not a real person - then the whole oddball-in-the-desert scenario might seem like something dreamed up by David Lynch. Or Sam Shepard. But Becket is very much the real thing, and she has made quite a name for herself out there in the desert. -Northern California Bohemian On stage there is a warble to her voice. She is thin, but her expressions are as varied and fluid as shifting sand dunes. To say that Becket was beautiful when she was young, as evidenced by photographs in her program is to do a disservice to the beauty she still holds. -Los Angeles Times There's something really wonderful about the fact that she picked the most desolate spot in America to do this. It says you can have your life on your own terms, but you'll have to sacrifice. It says the process is the point. And people come away from there inspired. -Todd Robinson, Director, Amargosa There is indisputably a whiff of eccentricity about Ms. Becket's enterprise. And if one might expect the woman herself - dark haired, trim, with the visible sinews of a dancer - to carry an eccentric air, she doesn't, though there is a faint haughtiness of the artiste about her. Ms. Becket is self-aware, perfectly willing to admit that her shows and her painting have been her obsessions. In explanation of what amounts to her self-imposed exile, she said, 'I couldn't have created another world anyplace else'. -New York Times Death Valley holds a special mystique for Europeans. You can find them among the locals in the 120-seat house, along with the occasional journalist or ghost-hunter- the place has a reputation for being haunted. -Dance Magazine Becket's paintings are marvelous and will live long after she is gone. The paintings are worth the long drive. -The Connected Traveler

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