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open studio 11.
With
Arvo Pärt I realize why I have a rule about practicing without music.
Music allows me to be indulgent. I dance without thinking nearly. I do compose to the music, but without continuity or the promise of performance --the creation occurs between me and the music and leaves an audience out in the cold. It remains too personal to be shared. Why does music release this intimacy?
I do not know. I am affected --as are we all-- very strongly by sound perhaps because I am unable to interact with it in a productive way that would then be able to provide me with the comfort of some control. No, instead all I can do is follow --which is why music or sound lightens the burden of many a task, mostly those requiring a consistency in mood and focus. On the other hand, this is why choreographing to music is painfully difficult - because I am bound by it, unable to think or generate ideas, riding its emotions like a raft.
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FMiH. Thank you.
Many thanks to all who supported and participated in
Find Me in Here!
A work founded on the original contributions of several individuals, its public life was short lived, culminating with two “final” performances at the end of August, 2009. What I have learned from the experience continues to have its effect and I look forward to exploring further the questions of creative process and product that
Find Me in Here raised.
Similarly, I am always eager to engage with your comments and questions and look forward to many conversations about dance, performance, and creative work.
esther m palmer
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open studio 10.
It's a semi-open studio. I'm here and the chairs are out-- but I'm also exhausted and cannot comment today. I suppose those days happen too.
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MMeO. Makeup results.
Well, the makeup went largely unnoticed, which is probably a good thing.
Friend 1 started ever so slightly when she saw my face, which I learned later was partly a moment of comparison dismay in the face of my dressier-than-usual appearance, where she wore comfortable jeans and a hoodie - looking very pretty, I must say, albeit not "fancied" for a night out.
Friend 2 I made the mistake of giving advance notice of the presence of the makeup and so all she noticed was the mascara and lipstick (barely), which wouldn't be so bad except that she's well exercised in face fashion and if mine were actually working to enhance, I think she would have noticed. It must be time for the visit to a professional!
I am going to set up an appointment with a makeup consultant at
MAC cosmetics (the choice determined by the introduction - a friend of mine knows this guy). I'm of course super curious to see what colors he chooses for me - I can't really figure it out myself because while I have ivory pale skin, I have freckles, and where I have a blue undertone in my skin, my eyes waver between blue and green and, again, I have freckles. I am a pale/blue base with rosy/warm spots. Lovely. Browns are too brown, pinks are too pink. And I'm completely incapable of choosing the proper in-between. Also, I've never learned how to put the darn stuff on correctly. It is not easy, in case you weren't sure.
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MMeO. Makeup.
I am by no means through transforming my wardrobe, and transforning my body, while certainly in-progress -and I am thrilled that "working out" (weights + cardio - "aerobics" is so 80's) in my 8x6 living room space is a actually a completely acceptable way (given my limited budget of money + time) to keep my spirits high and my body getting stronger and with more calcuable + therefore preventable strain on my knees than dancing- is years from being complete (while all of the components of appearance take effort on my part, the change to my way of life is greatest through "body" habits). All this to say I am moving on to include in my daily efforts the application and wearing out in public of... makeup.
Tonight I am going to a exhibition talk at
apexart where curator Robert Punkenhofer's
A Way Beyond Fashion exhibition just opened on Wednesday.
A close friend is joining me, and later we may meet up with
another dear friend, and then possibly even crash my boyfriend's fashion strike pub crawl, where all of his friends know me too. I am anxiously anticipating their reactions to my altered state of face. I worry that, for once not having followed the advice of anyone, my makeup is all wrong. My apartment has wretchedly spotty lighting (normally a beautiful thing) and while I think the makeup turned out ok, it still looked too much to me. I have a freckled and uneven complexion, so adding foundation, powder, blush, and eye shadow --oh yes, and mascara-- is a bit of a shock. I feel very... ivory. (That's the name of the foundation shade.) And now some guy on the train is trying to name all the states in the union in an effort to pinpoint first the midwest and second the state in the midwest from which I admit to have hailed. Um... WHY is this dude talking to me?!!! And when I say dude, I mean it in a categorical way. Hrrm. It can't possibly be the make-up...
Well I don't think that's it, but now I've completely lost my train of thought and have in the meantime arrived at my destination and (woah, that's
vito acconci over there!) am waiting for my first friend of the evening, noticing that my lip gloss has dried up.
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