Name: 【TED】Julie Taymor: Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge (Julie Taymor: Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge)
Uploaded: 2013-09-22T02:39:09.000Z
Duration: 18 min 29 s
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Julie Taymor: Thank you. Thank you very much.

That's a few samples of the theater, opera

and films that I have done over the last 20 years.

But what I'd like to begin with right now

And when I'm in the turbulent times, as we know,

that I am right now, through the crucible

Anybody who creates knows there's that point where

it hasn't quite become the phoenix or the burnt char.

which I'll tell you about, another story.

where I was about 21, 22 years, a long time ago,

And I found myself, after two years there

and performing and learning, on the island of Bali,

an initiation ceremony for the young men,

Little did I know that it was mine as well.

under this gigantic beringin banyan tree,

in the dark, there was no electricity, just the full moon,

from all the different villagers that came

And I thought I was alone in the dark under this tree.

I saw the glint of mirrors lit by the moon.

all of a sudden stood up in these full warrior costumes

and no one was in the square, and I was hidden in the shadows.

And they moved their bodies and they came forward,

and the lights bounced off these costumes.

And I've been in theater since I was 11 years old,

And I realized that they were performing for God,

But somehow, it didn't matter about the publicity.

It wasn't going to be written down. It was no news.

that felt for me like an eternity as they performed.

as soon as they finished and disappeared into the shadows,

a young man with a propane lantern came on,

The village square was filled with hundreds of people.

So what I gained and gathered from this incredible,

seminal moment in my life as a young artist

to what you believe as an artist all the way through,

that the audience is out there in our lives at this time,

when we are creating something that is breaking ground,

that's trying to do something you've never seen before,

where you actually don't know where you're going to end up,

that's the fine line on the edge of a crater

What I would like to do now is to tell you

about how I work. Let's take "The Lion King."

You saw many examples of my work up there,

I start with the notion of the ideograph.