WOW! What a great trip out West. I got to spend time with Toni and Queenie, two of my best friends from Stephens. It was thrilling to see a part of my country that looks SO different than the rolling, tree covered hills of GA. And going to La definitely made me understand why everyone thinks it's so great. Because it is. It is a BEAUTIFUL city. I flew out to Phoenix and Toni was there to pick me up. I couldn't believe I hadn't seen her since Graduation in 2004. It really did my soul good. We spent some good [View Full Entry]

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I had a great time in NY! I stayed on the upper east side with Andrea. Her apartment is just great. Lisette and Rachel seem to be doing really well, too. They live in a quasi-train car place at 90th and 1st. We spent a good deal of time doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, which was just what I needed. We walked around to a bunch of the acting studios to distribute post cards for the acting studio for which Andrea works. She was sick for one of the days I was there, so we sat on our butts watching her Tivo [View Full Entry]

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But the art is so delightful . . . Oh, the last day in beautiful Bielefeld, Germany. The weather is incredibly gloomy and oogey, which do not mean the same thing, neccesarily. I had my last work session with Yoshi Oida, after which we had a short lunch and presented our Japanese Mythology Story Tellings. Well, I should say that we presented a story that is based on Japanese Mythology. Because we were not instructed on how to tell these stories in any sort of Japanese tradition, as we had imagined. Some were good, very clear. Some were . . . [View Full Entry]

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I apologize for my belated entries, while I do have internet here in my hostel, at the end of the day I can do almost nothing but fall asleep. Things in Bielefeld are fine. The weather has improved slightly. I was not freezing to death as I walked to Theater at 8:20 this morning. We met early to warm up so that we could have extra time with Ismael. Our fist day with Ismael Ivo was totally invigorating. A very god warm up followed by very precise isolation work. We moved in one direction, then changed direction- either by making a [View Full Entry]

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I have been bad about writing, because I was trying to wait until I had a lot of pictures. But now, so much time has passed, and I have photos, and I have so much to write I don't know where to begin! So probably I will ramble a good deal in this entry, but I promise lots of photos. We finished our session with Tage Larsen, of the Odin Teatret, yesterday evening around 5. With Tage we worked on a specific way of developing a performance which involves creating a set of actions, and knowing them in your sleep. Also, [View Full Entry]

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It's not even on the city listings here. Hannover is the closest city that is listed. However, it does remind me a bit of Columbia, MO, where I went to Stephens. So, that's nice. Tonight we met with all of the participants for the coming two weeks. There are MANY of us. Today was spent working on our own, those of us who had already come form Poland, and it was really very nice. We worked for about five hours, and took some time to do shopping and rest a bit. The days will be very full from here on out, [View Full Entry]

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So, it’s been some time since I have posted anything. And that is because I’ve been in the middle of the woods in Poland for 7 days. Brzezinka was built in the mid 70’s I believe for the Theatre Laboratory’s use in it’s work. It is one building (and a broken water mill) that houses enough space (and more) for the 35 people who are here now, two large work spaces, a kitchen, two dining halls several storage spaces and of course, a three stall, two shower bathroom and washing machine. Oh, and mosquitos the size of my hand. Our schedule [View Full Entry]

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07.26.06 I am currently sitting in the Grotowski Centre. Amazing. I’m in Poland!! I made it, finally. Let me explain- I left Park in Italy on Monday. I took a train to Forli airport. I got on my crowded flight to Frankfurt, during which time my phone alarm clock went off, even thought the phone was off, and rude old Italian men laughed at me and the flight attendants were very mean. I arrived at Frankfurt Hahn a little early, and thought, good, i’ll be asleep in an hour. Nope. Frankfurt HAHN is two hours from Frankfurt Main. Smart, me. So, [View Full Entry]

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07.23.06 I was trying to sleep in this morning, as Park doesn’t get done in the days until 1:30, and someone is hammering, apparently, on something that just will not get into the wall. Wow. My room has not been cleaned since I’ve been here, but this place is definitely better than the last one. I got an email from the hotel I left saying that I had to pay for 3 days for canceling. However, I re-read all of our communication and translated every page of their web site, and no where is there listed any sort of policy of [View Full Entry]

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Well, I finally made it to Ravenna! It’s a really lovely town. I had a super early train that I was a tad too early for- so early that the subway wasn’t open yet and I had to walk to the train station- under a mile, so no problem. But, I made it just fine and made my train change on time and got here, to Ravenna around 10:30 AM. I asked a cabbie where my hotel was. Only 50 meters away, great! So, I headed towards the hotel, promptly passed the street and had to ask someone else. Luckily, my [View Full Entry]

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