Diner Deluxe'n it!
I'm just about to head off to my favorite breakfast place, Diner Deluxe. Woohoo! Can't wait to grab myself some Kickinghorse coffee and something with feta or butternut squash in it! I'm meeting some Saskatoonian friends of mine: Jordan, Steve, and Jason, who is now a Calgarian (as is Stephen...yet do I ever see them?...no). It should be a swell time.
Two nights ago was what we call "First Thursday" here in the Calgary art community. It's pretty cool actually...every first thursday of each month, the entire downtown arts core stays open late, hosts events, and all the cool people in the city ("cool" intending, any interest whatsoever in the arts), swarm the galleries and hot locales. Actually...I just realized that I have never participated in a First THursday until now...perhaps I'm not as cool as i thought.
But this Thursday was special. The 'company' I am in, Ephemeral Industry, had our first publicized movement intensive in the space of Art Central (downtown gallery, place of art creation, very cool place). We had a chunk of creation that was about 15 minutes or so, and that moved from the top level of the three story open gallery to the bottom. It was an interesting experience. People respond in very different ways when you are moving around them in untypical ways while in a public setting. Some people pretended that they didn't see us and kept conversing with their buddies or work associates, some people were intrigued and drawn in, some people tried to intrude with our movement (when it was pedestrian...we began the piece with lots of walking, but in very direct and linear format, thereby appearing out of place in the midst of all the schmoozing). Some people looked a bit scared and uncomfortable. But in the end, it all went well and I think people were mostly very interested in what the bajeezers was going on around them. It will be different when we actually do our show in April, as there won't be crowds of people walking around in the basement, and we will have some control over where people are. Site-specific dancing is great!
My ideas about my future change daily, but I think I am getting closer to where I will go. My ideas today: apply for McMaster in September 06 for September 07 (I don't want to move, but if it means saving a couple of years then I will do it....McMaster requires no MCAT), and go back to school, do the Bio, Chem, Zoo thing. I've been offered a job by Erin O'Connor for her project next year, but depending on rehearsal schedules I may have to decline. If she offered me a job in a company I would have to think about it, but I think that school is calling me. It's going to come at some point, so why not sooner rather than later right? I don't want to start my residencey when I'm 49.
Two nights ago was what we call "First Thursday" here in the Calgary art community. It's pretty cool actually...every first thursday of each month, the entire downtown arts core stays open late, hosts events, and all the cool people in the city ("cool" intending, any interest whatsoever in the arts), swarm the galleries and hot locales. Actually...I just realized that I have never participated in a First THursday until now...perhaps I'm not as cool as i thought.
But this Thursday was special. The 'company' I am in, Ephemeral Industry, had our first publicized movement intensive in the space of Art Central (downtown gallery, place of art creation, very cool place). We had a chunk of creation that was about 15 minutes or so, and that moved from the top level of the three story open gallery to the bottom. It was an interesting experience. People respond in very different ways when you are moving around them in untypical ways while in a public setting. Some people pretended that they didn't see us and kept conversing with their buddies or work associates, some people were intrigued and drawn in, some people tried to intrude with our movement (when it was pedestrian...we began the piece with lots of walking, but in very direct and linear format, thereby appearing out of place in the midst of all the schmoozing). Some people looked a bit scared and uncomfortable. But in the end, it all went well and I think people were mostly very interested in what the bajeezers was going on around them. It will be different when we actually do our show in April, as there won't be crowds of people walking around in the basement, and we will have some control over where people are. Site-specific dancing is great!
My ideas about my future change daily, but I think I am getting closer to where I will go. My ideas today: apply for McMaster in September 06 for September 07 (I don't want to move, but if it means saving a couple of years then I will do it....McMaster requires no MCAT), and go back to school, do the Bio, Chem, Zoo thing. I've been offered a job by Erin O'Connor for her project next year, but depending on rehearsal schedules I may have to decline. If she offered me a job in a company I would have to think about it, but I think that school is calling me. It's going to come at some point, so why not sooner rather than later right? I don't want to start my residencey when I'm 49.