• 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

  • February 9, 2011

    France’s Next Top Set Designer Pt. 1

    By Published On: February 9th, 2011

    Well, here I am back on the other side of the world working that whole theater thang!  That's right your trusty Theater Manager and resident Lighting Designer has once again flown to France, this year the first of 2 trips, to conduct workshops with design students who will hopefully build part of our set, saving

  • February 8, 2011

    The proof is in the pot, in the forest….

    By Published On: February 8th, 2011

  • February 8, 2011

    Ode to my Father and my brother…

    By Published On: February 8th, 2011

    I’m cooking as fast as I can! A week and a half ago, I found myself cooking for one food party after another and no sooner than I finish washing my trusty pot that I cook my stews in does Julie Phelps and Keith Hennessey call me and ask me if I can come cook

  • January 28, 2011

    the latest and upcoming as we launch headlong into 2011

    By Published On: January 28th, 2011

    The year is off to a great start. 2010 was nonstop: Luxury Items at CounterPULSE, Faux Real in London and then at the Climate, A Glamour in Presence curated by Volume at the Torrance Art Museum, a new piece in the Movement Research Festival's program Truly, Madly, Deeply at Judson Memorial Church in NYC, and

  • January 27, 2011

    Internship Week 1: Committed Souls

    By Published On: January 27th, 2011

    1/11/11, a lucky numerical day I believe to start something new.  I got off the BART train in high heels freezing my tiny self and toes off, noting that I never want to wear these specific heels again to the city.  I had coffee breathe and stopped by Walgreens to get some gum, I also eagerly