Poor Lonely Blog

Dear Blog,

Again I have to apologize for neglecting you. This is so typically me - I get really excited about something...then it fizzles out. Blog, I started you because I felt that I wasn't using my mind enough, and you helped me stay opinionated and articulate. Thanks! It just turns out that over the past month or so I've had PLENTY going on to keep my mind busy.

I've been working on a project with a director I really love, and who also happens to be absolutely out of her mind. Her plan is to have 4 installments of "open rehearsals" throughout a year of her interpretation of Jean Genet's The Maids. I love Genet and love this play and have been helping her do research for a few months now. This 1st installment is turning out to be more of an art instillation than a theatre piece, and I love it. I'm having a hard time letting go though...I mean I know this is meant to be a rehearsal, and completely imperfect in nature, but the performer in me just hates that. I suppose I'll just have to stay in the moment with it. After the 4 installments she will either use our exploration to create a finished piece or she will use it as research for a staging of the complete text, or maybe she won't do anything with it at all. Who knows!

My lovely blog, I am also starting my yoga teacher training program this upcoming weekend, and I am VERY excited about it! I found out that the director of the program is actually from Port Washington, where I used to live, and that we share Lisa Bondy from Om Sweet Om as our most influential yoga teacher! She is also a performer and studied Suzuki and Viewpoints with the Siti Company for 3 years. It really is a small world!

I will have to be doing written assignments for my training, and I will try and put all of those assignments up here. I'll spare you any that I think are either poorly written or boring.

Talk to you later!
April