(delays)

grumble grumble

So the world ate my computer early last week. Awesome. In the meantime, I got myself a little pork chop (read: blackberry) to help me out...and now I'm borrowing John's computer to make up the difference. Anyway. Back to work and plans...

Excitement! I just started rehearsing a duet with Erin Cairns yesterday! She's choreographing it for us and I'm super excited to be back in a studio (or "studio" sometimes, whatever) making work. It feels good, especially to be dancing again. We're hoping to be sharing at least some of it sometime in the fall -- so look out! Meanwhile, I'm back on task (fully equipped and reconnected to the world) to gather a group to start the Viewpoints and Composition workshop.

Presently, it seems like the best times for the workshop will be a weekday from say 7-9:30 or so. I'd really like to work at Triskelion Arts in Williamsburg (the studios are great, I like the woman who runs it, the views I think will provide fantastic architecture and inspiration and they're pretty cheap: $13/hr at most, probably 12). Looking at their availability for April, Wednesdays and Fridays look the most promising. Yea? Nay? If you have other suggestions for time or space, please let me know. I would love the first session to be between 3/30 and 4/9. Let's get it on.

I wanted to write a whahahappenwas for Measure for Measure at the Duke on 42nd...but, I think it actually just closed and I didn't take enough notes (or keep the program) so rather than doing a half-assed, shoddy job, I figured I'll write my first whhw about the new Suzan Lori Parks at the Public that I'm seeing tomorrow night :) awesome-stew. Look out for it.

In the meantime, let's all focus on Craft, and getting this workshop up and started for April. Started work with Erin has made me even more excited to get my creative muscles stretched out and worked out. Lezdoit.

-C

"They have no opening night, no critics, no end in mind--only practice, to keep their creative spirits active and flexible." --Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, from The Viewpoints Book

3 sets of 3

A Plan. This is what I'm thinking...

Theory, Craft and Energy - ideals, values and goals to continue to work on; they are discussion topics and focuses of meetings; how can we invite the mind into our work and bring our work into the dialogue? how can we hone our instruments to create work with facility and strength?how can we develop kineticism and motion surrounding and supporting our work? how can they inform each other to develop an exciting, beautiful, thoughtful body of art?

- these are also the 3 venues in which we meet: Theory looks like a reading group that meets perhaps every other week; Craft is a weekly workshop space that will begin with Viewpoints and Composition; Energy replaces "performances" with a party where art happens.

musing, heads-up and whhw - labels for navigating the Boot and staying involved in the discussion - sometimes all we need is to vent the boiling air that's flying around inside our heads or hearts or bellies or feet. sometimes we need to alert others to moments and events as they are happening or about to happen. sometimes we just need to report on or review something we saw, heard, ate, smelled, read, experienced... whahahappenwuz...

may i? can we? and what if? - diving boards - side-bars: may i interrupt for a second and talk about this totally unrelated item? suggestions: can we do [this] too/instead of that/next time around/faster/only in our dreams/right now? dream projects: what if we could create anything, anywhere, anytime, anyway, anywho?

I want to call them the bottles. Dig?

Mission, Purpose, Raison d'Etre

I'm trying to start something new. Get the ball rolling, if you will. It always seems to take me so long to get going--I like to steep, to plan. I need to do. Do. Doodoo. For sure.

Here's a place. I've found a place to start something new: here. Tada! I've been frustrated--looking around my community, my city--that space comes at such a high premium. There's no space to grow. To experiment. To break rules and be safe without spending money money money money money. Hunny. So, after much debate, much steeping, I look to the only "space" one can find for free: digital space. Seemingly-infinite amounts of it. And I want to use this space to grow inside of and learn from. And I'm calling to you and everyone who feels the need to make mistakes and take risks and...

Ok, let's get down to it.

Make art with me.

Make art with me. Make it free. Make it open. Make it well. Make it.

The Glass Boot, most of all, is a venue. Here we can share and we can work to find other free spaces: spaces for our bodies, where our bodies can meet and make more art. Free art. Open art.

Join the conversation. Or witness it. It's here for everyone.