Dear Reader, I have felt many things over the past few weeks, and it’s made it difficult to clear my head enough to speak clearly here. I regret if my straying has made your curiosity wane (almost a rhyme there), it was not intentional. The other problem has been that my mother and I were […]
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I jumped — high and far, and twirling. Vincent’s Yellow opened in Chicago, IL last Thursday, on the 120th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh’s death. I performed — my cast and I performed — this thing that has been so intimately tucked between my blood vessels, that has been continuously beating quietly alongside my heart for […]
Tags: acting, art, beauty, change, dance, death, ensemble, gratitude, heart, life, love, performance, production, start, theater, value
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Things are starting to really heat up now. Tomorrow we have our first fundraiser at The Spot, in Chicago ($5 trivia! 7pm!), which I am very excited about, and a more intense rehearsal schedule kicks in soon. It’s time to start blocking and really building this play. This is both thrilling and a little daunting. […]
Tags: character, dance, fundraising, Gauguin, history, instrument, music, myth, mythology, theater
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