December 4, 2007

Riches...with no embarressment

All last week the Funny Uncles crew and I were in tech development time for the piece - with many thanks to Black Rock Center for the Arts and their opening the doors to their Black Box space.  While a hike from Takoma Park, it enabled us to focus on the work and not deal with (at least immediately) the emails, the phone, the daily interruptions to art-making.

It has been a rich ten days or so. And these kinds of riches are not an embarrassment at all.  Our designers Molly Ross, Staub, Matt Mahaney, and Kathleen Geldard, along with our Production Manager Amelia Cox and Stage Manager Kate have all brought an amazing wealth of talents - great thinking, great designing amidst the perseverance it takes to try to "get it right". The company of dancers - only two of whom are from our core group, with the rest being adjunct artists joining us for this production - benefited, too, from having the designers present a full week as we rehearse, replicate, rejuvenate, rest, repeat. The dialogue helps the work get better.

A new/old, or old/new?, colleague, Michael Bobbitt, artistic director of the Adventure Theatre at Glen Echo has been generous to offer his response to what we have put together. I would run into Michael more recently on the street or at a theatre. Early on during my DC days, Michael and I met at American University. It has been to have him, along with my Dance Exchange colleagues Martha Wittman and Elizabeth Johnson helping me to rehearse and direct.

AND SO:

We have a rich show to share with you this weekend. And the next, in LA, and the next after that in B'more. More soon.

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