• March 8, 2011

    Brass band to the Mardi Gras Eat-In

    By Published On: March 8th, 2011

  • March 3, 2011

    Surprise Gifts

    By Published On: March 3rd, 2011

    There always seems to be surprise gifts that come from creating a performance work--things that enhance my life and/or art making that I didn't expect to receive from the project. With the Friend project, a major gift has been a reminder about the joy of making stuff. By stuff I mean visual art (sculpture, collage,

  • March 2, 2011

    Refueling

    By Published On: March 2nd, 2011

    Being a person is hard work. And then being a person who is living as an artist adds a whole new layer of difficulties. A lot of the time I pride myself on being able to keep on keepin' on, no matter how hard the traveling becomes. And I am committed in my creative work

  • March 1, 2011

    Our Daily Bread Video Preview

    By Published On: March 1st, 2011

  • February 17, 2011

    Reflections on Queer Dance

    By Published On: February 17th, 2011

    The following is my introductory note in the program for tonight's 2nd Annual Queer Dance Festival at CSU East Bay, followed by some related videos. This felt like an appropriate exploration to share here: Reflections on the Nature of “Queer Dance” By Queer Dance Festival Director Eric Kupers February 17th, 2011 University Theatre, CSU East

  • February 14, 2011

    Investigating Mysteries

    By Published On: February 14th, 2011

    I love mysteries. I love mystery novels and movies, and mysterious stories and myths. I love when spiritual teachers refer to the divine as the "Great Mystery." More and more these days I'm seeing my performance work as a series of mysteries I'm immersed in. Each new performance project at times seems like something I've

  • February 14, 2011

    Letting go of gumbo..

    By Published On: February 14th, 2011

    For many years on my birthday, my mother would make her seafood gumbo. It was one of the few times I would ask her to make this dish and I always liked to share this experience with family and friends because my mother’s gumbo is an experience. It is thick, messy, full of crabs legs,

  • February 13, 2011

    2nd Work in Progress Showing

    By Published On: February 13th, 2011

    I was reminded yesterday of how helpful work in progress showings are. I often forget that this is an experimental form we're working in, and that experimental forms need actual experiments. While performances are experiments, they are high-pressure ones, and I learn as much, if not more from showings along the way. Here's some excerpts

  • February 13, 2011

    This One’s For Friendship

    By Published On: February 13th, 2011

    One of the things that is shifting in me in response to the recent death of my friend Sharon Mussen is a re-prioritizing of friendship. I had a professor in grad school tell me once that I should never direct my friends in my projects--that the roles become too confusing. Even though I respect this

  • February 12, 2011

    Conditioning

    By Published On: February 12th, 2011

    I'm humbled to see how deep so much of my conditioning runs. I've been learning about and experimenting with inclusive dance techniques for almost a decade now. I'm continually looking for ways to make the ways I perform, think about, create and teach dance/theater inclusive of people with diverse mobilities. And still my conditioning asserts

  • February 12, 2011

    Birthing Pains

    By Published On: February 12th, 2011

    I see the creation of each art work as a kind of birth. There's both great connection and great pain in this process, and I often forget that the magnitude of how connecting a piece is directly relates to how painful its birth can be. Last week we tried out a structure for performing a

  • February 12, 2011

    Mid Way

    By Published On: February 12th, 2011

    I feel half gay. Not sexually that is... I'm not bisexual or sexually confused. I'm clearly hot for men. I just feel culturally half gay. Like somehow I've inherited or learned only a part of the culture, but not actually enough to pass a thorough inspection. If I was to try to board a plane