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Moby Dick Dances at Luna Dance Institute
So how do YOU make a dance. I pretty much had nothing for my half hour performance for Luna Dance Institute scheduled for last Thursday.
Terrified of forgetting my lines, I focused every bit of energy on memorizing 10 pages of my monologue for Tuesday night at the Marsh. So come Thursday, I did what I always do. Here I am, winging it like a frightened raven.
The cool thing is, people seemed to like it! This stone cold improv gave me courage for the show on Sunday at Dance-a-rama. People seemed to like that too!
And performing improv acted like creativity steroids. I woke up in the middle of the night yelling “Herman Melville and Martha Graham belong together like peanut butter and chocolate!” To the Supremes’s “Love Child”, I sorta choreographed, sorta improved a Martha Graham spoof. This was the highlight of my performance Tuesday night at the Marsh. At least my highlight.
Poor Brian. He’s lost years of sleep living with me.
Up coming performances
Late April will be a monologue/dance-a-logue marathon time performing for Dance-a-rama on April 27th, the Berkeley Marsh the 28th, and 20 Points of View (for the Luna Dance Institute) on April 24th where I’ll be doing two dance excerpts from The Moby Dick Diaries, a WIP monologue/dance-a-logue.
One dance is called “Thief of Beauty” , the other is called “Artis Interruptus.”
“Thief of Beauty” is about my fourth grade aesthetic obsession over a flower, actually the color of a flower, that urged me to steal… followed, naturally, by a bunch of soul-crushing torment.
“Artis Interruptus” chronicles my teenage attempts to use the Great American novel, Moby Dick, as inspiration for choreographing the Great American Dance an artistic vehicle that I hoped would take me of my hyper-religious, rural California town, Porterville.
NOTE: Some of this stuff kinda-sorta happened.
See below for more information about the Dance-a-rama performance. I’ll also perform at the Berkeley Marsh Monday the 28th. I’ll post more information (like the times!) as I learn more.
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Here is more information about Dance-a-rama.
Sunday April 27, 2014
Dance-a-Rama 2014,
A wonderful FREE event for Bay Area Dance Week
at Eighth Street Studio and Western Sky, in the Sawtooth Building, 2525 Eighth Street in Berkeley.
There are two full, completely different shows, at 2 p.m and at 3 p.m.,
followed by a Reception with refreshments, and informal conversation with the performers and choreographers.
Please join us for this very special event.
Here is the schedule:
2 P.M. Show
Cherie Carson– UpSwing Aerial Dance Company
Tea Dancers/Ballet de la Compasion
Ruth Botchan Dance Company
Ann Swigart
for change aerial dance collective
3 P.M. Show
Jetta Martin
Avilee Goodwin, Isadora Duncan Dances
Andrea Mock
Sabah Ensemble
Mary Reid
Treve Johnson
4 P.M. Reception
Andrea Mock 