sitting in the sunshine with a cup of strong coffee and chatting with cohdi about his show tonight. the show's called FLEXION and it's the one he and alessondra were working on in florida, where they both lived for 6 weeks during the show's creation, lounging in jennifer lopez's old digs (yes, that's right, j-lo herself). the show starts at 7:30 and this is the first time i've officially seen their work, though they would both argue this in NOT their work, it is something they were hired to do, nothing close to their shared artistic vision. the man who directed is big in the "acrobatic stilt-walking" world. it was a collaboration between the miami cultural center and wise fool, the company alessondra founded in sante fe, the company which sarah-jane and amanda are affiliated (without whose affiliation i certainly wouldn't be here).
i am very excited to see my friends in action. the day is glorious, we're about ready to head down the hill, laura is giving me a ride, she's teaching contortion classes at a dance center called "moving people" today, so she won't be seeing the show this evening. i'm going to have a nice day by myself, wandering the streets, and reading books and all that lovely stuff you can do in a town larger than penasco (coffee shops, record stores, treating yourself to a snack.) this morning i played around as alvin, my clown, in the freezing cold theatre, i didn't want to turn the heat on, it takes to long, and i only needed a quick refresher, to start my day. then i helped push a gaint truck and trailer out of our backyard, where it was stuck in the snow, wheels spinning, trying to simply drop off a load of fresh cut wood. after about 45 minutes of pushing and shoveling and placing cardboard and straw under the wheels for traction, and talking to the guy about random details of our lives for small talk (he referred to us as our "states" because between the 5 of us, we make a lot of marks on the atlas). he was a funny guy, he might come back and let us play around on his buddy's snow-mobile, if he can sell him on penasco's hamburgers (they live in taos).
anyway, enough for now. laura's ready for me to load up and get out of here. i'll let you know how the show goes.
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From February 15 - April 6 2007 I traveled through INDIA with a group of talented Circus Artists that I met at a friend's wedding in New Mexico the Summer of 2006. While we were there I assisted the group technically with their performance of ESCAPE ARTIST, an original aerial perfomance piece. We toured the major cities, Calcutta, Chennai, Delhi, Bombay and performed for thousands of Indian citizens. At these performances I often came out as Alvin McGee, my Clown character, entertaining the audience as a Pre-Show spectacle. I also taught Clown workshops as part of the collaborative CIRCUS ACROSS CULTURES program to nearly 200 children at the American Embassy Schools of Delhi and Bombay respectively.
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