My New York debut…

So amidst the craziness that is this quarter, some little part of my brain is remembering that I will be performing in NYC on March 14th for the first (and perhaps only) time.  This is part of the amazing Anna Sokolow Steps of Silence experience.  Sadly, we are just doing an excerpted version of the piece, as the event–Hunter College’s Sharing the Legacy Festival–has a ten-minute limit.  If you must see the whole piece, we’ll be performing it in Columbus in the May Dance Downtown performances.

And what brought this subject to mind now, you ask?  Good question–last night I dreamed that the airlines lost my luggage and I was stuck trying to get ready right before curtain without any stage makeup, hair supplies, etc.  At least it wasn’t the dream where I don’t know any of the steps…

Too much of a good thing?

By tonight, I will have seen 4 different dance performances in 4 nights.  It’s an embarrassment of riches to be sure, and is pretty representative of this quarter: I am loving everything I am involved in, and also wish it would all just stop so I could get off the ride and breathe for a while…  It seems that everything I am doing is wonderfully thought-provoking, but there is no time to process the thoughts from one thing before another set of thoughts is presenting itself, demanding attention.  They trip over each other, get tangled, wake me up in the middle of the night, distract me when I’m trying to learn a combination in dance class and have me continually saying “that reminds me of x–now where did I read about x?”  It’s chaos up in my head!!!

And this is the part where I point out that it’s my own fault for deciding to take 24 credits, and why am I surprised to have so much going on…

Which is all my long way of getting around to say that there have been some amazing experiences that I meant to blog about, but I have been amazingly busy, and  then I freeze up whenever I try to choose one from among the many mention-worthy happenings.  But in random order, here are a few hints of what’s going on:

Lorry May coaching us in Anna Sokolow’s Steps of Silence.

Guest artist Amy Raymond’s ballet class.

I was actually able to explain phenomenology to someone.

Musings on what I might do for my MFA project.

Discoveries in Abby Yager’s modern class.

I like Labanotation!

It might be illegal that I’m not doing homework right now.

Going from confusion to understanding in the weight studies class.

Performances I’ve seen.

So at some point, I may come along and flesh out items on the list–or write on any of the 20 new things that have happened–until then, any suggestions for staying sane?  (Just kidding–I know it’s way too late for that!)