It's finally happened! I've peeled myself away from home long enough to go to rehearsals and have some show dates in April!
On April 12 I'll be showing an excerpt of the new piece, called "Apis" at Second Sundays, CounterPULSE, 2 pm. Then that next week I'll be performing it in it's entirety at The Garage on the 16th and 17th.
I'm excited about this piece and I hope you folks will be, too. It's a solo - terrifying, but necessary.
Here's the story:
When I was very small, I was stung on the face by a bee while being swarmed by a bunch of them. I've been terrified of them since. I've also had bad allergies which got worse since then. My allergies appear on my skin as rashes, hives, bumps, dermatitis. Yuck. Ouch.
The homeopathic remedy for my problem is apis mellifica. Honeybee. I've tried it over the years and it never worked before. Then I started the GAPS Diet, which is pretty life-changing. After that, I tried apis again and found that it worked. Then I made a connection.
I haven't been able to remember dreams much in my adult life. That all changed when I changed my diet and struggled with letting go of the daily cortisone creams. I started to have weird, poetic, awful, wonderful, lucid dreams...about bees and that first sting. Bingo.
Come see this show.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Saturday, October 18, 2008
New Performance Dates! (At last!)
Well, having a 2-year-old does slow you down a bit. As it is, John is sticking with his work hours and will be writing, but not performing. I'll be showing new developments in the Residency Project series at a RAW residency at The Garage in (from what I heard last) February 2008 and an excerpt from that work at Second Sundays in April.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
The multitasking blog.
If it's not enough to be overextended in life, now I have a new blog that is also hooked up to Ravelry.com where I've been...actually, how do you say knitting online? You don't really. But it's possible to talk about it. Even to exchange notes and yarn and needles and whatever.
So it's sort of online knitting. And here I am wearing this shirt that has three cute little ninjas on it that says "Mixed Martial Arts and Crafts," supposedly getting something done for the Fieldwork workshop this fall and I wind up logging onto Ravelry as I think about making shopping bags.
I'm incorrigible. Anyway, if you find interest in knitting, enjoy Knitterlinglish.
Meanwhile, I fully intend to show up to my rehearsals with a half-made pair of socks in my dance bag, a half-finished soundtrack and a set of movies of Rain on my computer, and a box of Fieldwork flyers to leave at the theater. :) Doing too much? Nah. Staying sane? Yes.
So it's sort of online knitting. And here I am wearing this shirt that has three cute little ninjas on it that says "Mixed Martial Arts and Crafts," supposedly getting something done for the Fieldwork workshop this fall and I wind up logging onto Ravelry as I think about making shopping bags.
I'm incorrigible. Anyway, if you find interest in knitting, enjoy Knitterlinglish.
Meanwhile, I fully intend to show up to my rehearsals with a half-made pair of socks in my dance bag, a half-finished soundtrack and a set of movies of Rain on my computer, and a box of Fieldwork flyers to leave at the theater. :) Doing too much? Nah. Staying sane? Yes.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Rehearsals in the Fall!
Woohoo! I'm back to it! I get one a week and sometimes two for the ten weeks of Fieldwork September through November!
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Announcing Fall Fieldwork 2008!
Dear all,
As we bask in the foggy chill of summer in San Francisco, thoughts turn to making art in the warm evenings of autumn! It's time to save the dates for Fall Fieldwork. It's another mixed discipline group for performing artists of all types who make original work.
What: Fall 2008 Mixed Discipline Fieldwork Where: CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission St. @ 9th in San Francisco When: Monday evenings, 6:30-9 pm, September 8 - November 10, 2008 Facilitator: Jennifer Gwirtz
Showing: Monday evening, November 17
Cost: $150 or $130 before August 1.
Additional $5 discount for past participants or CounterPULSE members.
Contact Jen or John at (415) 387-4812 or info@thefieldsf.org.
For more information, http://thefieldsf.org/
The Field, founded in New York in 1986, is an artist support and service organization that provides workshops, performances, and other programs for independent performing artists in twelve cities across the country. The underlying foundation of The Field is a commitment to serve all artists, from those making their first work, to those who are experienced, supported and recognized, as well as artists from diverse cultural backgrounds and aesthetic points of view. To this end, The Field does not engage in any curatorial activity, maintaining an open, non-exclusive forum which any artist can join.
As we bask in the foggy chill of summer in San Francisco, thoughts turn to making art in the warm evenings of autumn! It's time to save the dates for Fall Fieldwork. It's another mixed discipline group for performing artists of all types who make original work.
What: Fall 2008 Mixed Discipline Fieldwork Where: CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission St. @ 9th in San Francisco When: Monday evenings, 6:30-9 pm, September 8 - November 10, 2008 Facilitator: Jennifer Gwirtz
Showing: Monday evening, November 17
Cost: $150 or $130 before August 1.
Additional $5 discount for past participants or CounterPULSE members.
Contact Jen or John at (415) 387-4812 or info@thefieldsf.org.
For more information, http://thefieldsf.org/
The Field, founded in New York in 1986, is an artist support and service organization that provides workshops, performances, and other programs for independent performing artists in twelve cities across the country. The underlying foundation of The Field is a commitment to serve all artists, from those making their first work, to those who are experienced, supported and recognized, as well as artists from diverse cultural backgrounds and aesthetic points of view. To this end, The Field does not engage in any curatorial activity, maintaining an open, non-exclusive forum which any artist can join.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
An Update On Where We Are
They're right. It goes by incredibly fast.
Rain is nearly 2 now. She's 22 months old, talking copiously and well enough to make people look down in surprise. She's an amazing kid. The other day she told me that the prairie dogs at the zoo were "doing yoga."
Unlike many parents and kids, we've never been good travelers. Rain's always done everything on her own terms, including beating out all of her mom's nine fibroids for blood supply en utero, being born surgically after deciding not to turn. This was after two inversions, countless laps and somersaults in the pool, yoga positions (one of which is featured in close view on one of the In Residency projects), and once she was born, boycotting mommy's attempts at postnatal yoga when she was five months old. I gave up taking us anywhere for a while. She hated the car. She hated the sling until she could hold herself up and participate. By 17 months we were going places and doing things, but usually within limits. We keep it slow to better stop when it's time to absorb what she's experiencing. She's going to be a heck of a young woman. Here, truly, is a person who will change her world.
But that means that I can no longer get across the city to CounterPULSE regularly to rehearse since I'm already working at The Body Gallery twice a week and seem to find myself swamped with laundry and cooking whenever I'm not working or sleeping. Rain is a kid who will not sit and play quietly while mommy makes dances and it's not fair to force her into that pigeonhole. I know that there are plenty of performer parent-kid relationships that do well in the studio, but ours never has. A friend of mine whose single mother was a dancer related to me recently that she later resented the many afternoons in the studio and evenings at painfully long tech rehearsals. Neither John or I wanted that for Rain.
I still have about four hours of lush video to log and edit beyond the pieces I made in the summer before Rain was born. I also have ideas for more. It's clear to me that at the point when our living space has a separate working area, or when Rain goes to preschool, whichever comes first, I'll be able to return to this kind of work.
The Field is better than ever, small and sleek, like an otter. We hold three to four workshops a year, both in the East Bay (Berkeley or Oakland, facilitated by Mary Armentrout) and in San Francisco. They've been great groups. Facilitating for these terrific people has kept my art alive. Our next San Francisco workgroup will start September 8, 2008. See the website for details (not up yet but will be soon!).
A word about John.
In 2007 he earned his paralegal certification with the hopes that he can earn enough to push our income into the place it has to be so that we can move into a larger living space. He's still working hard at his job, although occasionally he bursts out with a fantastic written piece like the radio show "The Bunny At The Bottom of the Bowl," heard on Pirate Cat Radio a while back. He's currently the back end guy for The Field, keeping us organized financially and making sure that we get our contracts signed on time. I don't quite know what I'd do without him reminding me to get our publicity out. We've had full and nearly-full workshops because of him.
Meanwhile, it will probably take him some time to return to the stage. I'm sure he'll get there someday and if I can produce a show in the next few years, he'll most likely have a piece in it, whether or not he's onstage.
That said, Rain is now enjoying a late bath with daddy by the tub. It's time for me to log off and assume "places" for our daily bedtime routine. Countdown, 5, 4, 3, 2...
Rain is nearly 2 now. She's 22 months old, talking copiously and well enough to make people look down in surprise. She's an amazing kid. The other day she told me that the prairie dogs at the zoo were "doing yoga."
Unlike many parents and kids, we've never been good travelers. Rain's always done everything on her own terms, including beating out all of her mom's nine fibroids for blood supply en utero, being born surgically after deciding not to turn. This was after two inversions, countless laps and somersaults in the pool, yoga positions (one of which is featured in close view on one of the In Residency projects), and once she was born, boycotting mommy's attempts at postnatal yoga when she was five months old. I gave up taking us anywhere for a while. She hated the car. She hated the sling until she could hold herself up and participate. By 17 months we were going places and doing things, but usually within limits. We keep it slow to better stop when it's time to absorb what she's experiencing. She's going to be a heck of a young woman. Here, truly, is a person who will change her world.
But that means that I can no longer get across the city to CounterPULSE regularly to rehearse since I'm already working at The Body Gallery twice a week and seem to find myself swamped with laundry and cooking whenever I'm not working or sleeping. Rain is a kid who will not sit and play quietly while mommy makes dances and it's not fair to force her into that pigeonhole. I know that there are plenty of performer parent-kid relationships that do well in the studio, but ours never has. A friend of mine whose single mother was a dancer related to me recently that she later resented the many afternoons in the studio and evenings at painfully long tech rehearsals. Neither John or I wanted that for Rain.
I still have about four hours of lush video to log and edit beyond the pieces I made in the summer before Rain was born. I also have ideas for more. It's clear to me that at the point when our living space has a separate working area, or when Rain goes to preschool, whichever comes first, I'll be able to return to this kind of work.
The Field is better than ever, small and sleek, like an otter. We hold three to four workshops a year, both in the East Bay (Berkeley or Oakland, facilitated by Mary Armentrout) and in San Francisco. They've been great groups. Facilitating for these terrific people has kept my art alive. Our next San Francisco workgroup will start September 8, 2008. See the website for details (not up yet but will be soon!).
A word about John.
In 2007 he earned his paralegal certification with the hopes that he can earn enough to push our income into the place it has to be so that we can move into a larger living space. He's still working hard at his job, although occasionally he bursts out with a fantastic written piece like the radio show "The Bunny At The Bottom of the Bowl," heard on Pirate Cat Radio a while back. He's currently the back end guy for The Field, keeping us organized financially and making sure that we get our contracts signed on time. I don't quite know what I'd do without him reminding me to get our publicity out. We've had full and nearly-full workshops because of him.
Meanwhile, it will probably take him some time to return to the stage. I'm sure he'll get there someday and if I can produce a show in the next few years, he'll most likely have a piece in it, whether or not he's onstage.
That said, Rain is now enjoying a late bath with daddy by the tub. It's time for me to log off and assume "places" for our daily bedtime routine. Countdown, 5, 4, 3, 2...
Friday, January 11, 2008
Strange foods that our child likes
From the least to the most peculiar...
Meat - all kinds. She loves beef, lamb, pork, and especially chicken. While most kids eat their spaghetti with a token bit of meat sauce, she goes the other way - she leaves a big pile of rice or rice pasta and eats tons of meat. It's occurred to me that since we're dairy free that she's getting her fats from animal sources. Weston A. Price would be proud.
Egg yolk - possibly her favorite food.
Dijon mustard - she's definitely a salt craver, but I also think that she likes the bite.
and here's the reason why I wrote this blog...
SAUERKRAUT.
Yes. Our child wants sauerkraut. We're trying to monitor her intake. I mean, it is cabbage and we're concerned about her being too gassy. But she keeps on eating it and signing for more.
Go figure.
Meat - all kinds. She loves beef, lamb, pork, and especially chicken. While most kids eat their spaghetti with a token bit of meat sauce, she goes the other way - she leaves a big pile of rice or rice pasta and eats tons of meat. It's occurred to me that since we're dairy free that she's getting her fats from animal sources. Weston A. Price would be proud.
Egg yolk - possibly her favorite food.
Dijon mustard - she's definitely a salt craver, but I also think that she likes the bite.
and here's the reason why I wrote this blog...
SAUERKRAUT.
Yes. Our child wants sauerkraut. We're trying to monitor her intake. I mean, it is cabbage and we're concerned about her being too gassy. But she keeps on eating it and signing for more.
Go figure.
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