Fame or Famine

October 3rd, 2007

October 12, put me on a plane to Seattle!

Many thanks to BeckyLoooooo for providing me with yet another reason to go to Seattle: Point Break LIVE!
Now, here’s the fun part: this is actually one of my favorite movies. Specifically, the part where the lead jumps out of a perfectly good aircraft without a parachute just to make sure the bad guy doesn’t get […]

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September 10th, 2007

Dance in Drumpants!

Can you imagine what someone like Tarik would do with pants like this?

Reminds me of some of the work of Troika Dance…

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August 26th, 2007

Some thoughts on Burlesque

I’m far behind in my posting to this blog, and at least part of it is the fault of several talented women who comprise Foxy Veronica’s Peach Pies. I performed with one of them (the Betty Wantsme who has been seen in this blog before) for one performance, and the audience and the directors liked […]

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July 10th, 2007

Screamin’ Cyn-Cyn & the Pons: Theatrical Punk

Last night my friend Betty Wantsme (yes, she’s a burlesque performer, why do you ask?) took me out to the High Noon Saloon in Madison, WI to see “Screamin’ Cyn-Cyn & the Pons.” “I’m not sure if you’ll like the music,” she warned me, “but I know you’ll like the performance.”
I knew I would too, […]

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June 25th, 2007

The correct way to deal with a Costume Malfunction

I’ve mentioned the talented Shan in this blog once or twice before, because her blog is a source of endless delights and several times has provided me with content for this blog.
I’m happy to say this time she, herself, is the content. She recently posted a short video of a performance where she experienced a […]

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May 18th, 2007

Snappy Dance Theater

This is the third try at this post. The other two crashed my computer. I don’t know why, but I’m desperate, and late, so:
Go look at Snappy Dance Theater. Note how they’re cool. Then go to Boston and see their new show "String Beings". It, too, will be cool. And with luck, my computer won’t […]

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May 11th, 2007

Koosil-Ja collaborates on a different kind of video-dance

Via Turbulence (the page my browser always opens first) I learn of "mech[a] output", which is as big a mashup of sources as I’ve ever seen:

"mech[a] is a dance of restraint, based on koosil-ja’s study of the dances of the Noh-play DOJOJI. Through rigid adherence to the original choreography of DOJOJI, she treats the form […]

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April 26th, 2007

Holy Hannibal: That’s a Spectacle

Reading about this, part of me screams that there are so many better uses of resources, both in terms of effect on the environment and in terms of money that could go to theatre groups and supporting artists. I mean, really, the idea of a one-off piece of this magnitude is, well, staggering in its […]

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March 30th, 2007

Things I Wish I’d Seen #4367: Bread and Puppet Theatre

Guess who was in Madison this week? The Bread and Puppet Theatre. Guess who had to work both nights they were here? Me! Grf.
At least I just got hired to be stage managing the upcoming UW-Madison Dance Department Anniversary Gala (my alma mater). Hopefully some good interviews will come of it.
Meanwhile, a blast from the […]

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March 19th, 2007

Look, Ma, I’m in pictures!

I don’t have much more to wrap up the SEAF performance review. The Sinner Saint Burlesque group, including Dane (who was also the MC for the auction, and hosts his own Seattle show and podcast) did a version of "Mein Herr" from Cabaret that was spirited and fun– I have to wonder if the troupe, […]

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