Hi All!! Some photos of my two weeks spent in Dublin several weeks ago......... [View Full Entry]

---

---

I arrived at the Rouen Gare late on Friday night, around 1230 pm. Tony and Olivier met me at the train station; they had just finished an evening Jam Session at Olivier’s place. They are forming a band and have started working on a few songs—including Green Day’s ‘Good Riddance’ and a song by ‘The Calling…’ Olivier is one of the many guys on the team who is incredibly proficient in English but I had no idea because we were always speaking in French. It is cool to hear these guys speak English. We went back to Tony’s place—a fl [View Full Entry]

---

---

Written two weeks ago....(sorry for the delay!!) With each coming residency, the intensity of the experience has increased. And this final month in Angers was truly intense. In fact I just misspoke….it was only two weeks here. Less than that, in fact. But it felt like two months to me. We arrived last Tuesday, and we leave this coming Monday. I was gone last weekend to play baseball in Rouen, and I am once again gone this weekend to play. So in fact, I will have only been here for about 9 days!! It seems like so much more than that. [View Full Entry]

---

---

I just saw a really great film about a man who is going to die (late-stage cancer) and therefore sabotages his own life. It was a really good film. I really enjoyed it. I had a kind of a bad day—we all did, the whole troupe, and so I spent the day alone just sort of wandering the city. I ended up at the movie theater all alone watching this movie. It was the perfect movie at that moment, because in fact I myself had two days to kill: we had two days off from rehearsal. The event of the movie, [View Full Entry]

---

---

I have not a single photo from Belfort. Not one. This may be because overall it was not a very positive time. I felt good about our dance work, about the process and the place that the work got to. The technical support in Belfort was really wonderful—we were able to work with lights and sound and everything there in a way that really made the piece finally make sense for me. But the energy of the place and some stresses surrounding the project repressed my photo-taking, I think. (don't worry--it was not nearly that bad--but I do think that [View Full Entry]

---

---

Yesterday we had a day off from work and so I decided to take an extended stroll to the park. I packed a picnic: bread/cheese/meat, rice, two Smirnoff ices, my book, baseball bat, umbrella, ipod. I spent the afternoon/evening in the parc reading, listening to music, eating, and swinging my bat. As I was on my way home, I passed two teenage boys riding their bikes around a fountain in a smaller park closer to town. I had my ipod on full blast, listening to my music and sort of being in my own little world. Small caviot: I always feel [View Full Entry]

---

---

We are now in our final week of our final dance residency here in France. It has been (yet again) quite a while since I have written, and as has been my pattern thus far this year, you can expect a flurry of blog activity in the coming week. I take my moments as they come....but it is safe to say that the fact that I have not written in over a month is not a representation of lack of subject material. On the contrary, the last weeks have flown by at such a fast pace that I was shocked when [View Full Entry]

---

---

The Jardin Des Plantes is just outside of the city centre in Montpellier. It was created in 1593 by Henri IV. It was quite beautiful, even though Spring had not yet arrived. Here are a few pictures. :) PS: this entry is for those of you who don't have time to read my longer blog entries. ;) [View Full Entry]

---

---

3/27: We have been here in Montpellier just over a week and a half. We leave this coming Monday, still five days away, yet I already feel the transition of preparing to move on. This is the funny thing about this whole residency process; you take one week to fully settle in, you have a few days where you feel settled in, and then your body/mind/soul begins the process of letting go and creating space for travel and the new place you will travel to. It is both a cleansing and a draining/exhausting experience to travel, to go from one place [View Full Entry]

---

---

One of the great perks of being here in Montpellier was connecting with the great Barracudas of Montpellier. Having crossed paths with them in the European Cup in Amsterdam, I briefly met the coach and several of the guys; they mentioned to me that if I were ever in the area that I should stop in for a practice. Now I was here in Montpellier, was in need of baseball practice to stay in shape until I get back to Lithuania for the season, and so on the Thursday before Easter I waited at the tram station for a car to [View Full Entry]

---

---