So much of the city is our bodies. Places in us old light still slants through to. Places that no longer exist but are full of feeling, like phantom limbs. Even the city carries ruins in its heart. Longs to be touched in places only it remembers. -excerpted from Phantom Limbs, a poem by Anne […]
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One of the first things that came up in my conversation with Danny Yung at the end of 2013 was the idea of self consciousness. “You are too self-conscious,” he observed as I presented what I wanted to do with the Director’s Lab final production. It was true, I had gotten the idea of responsibility, […]
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Nacho and I walked in the park tonight. For the past few days, it’s been raining most evenings so we haven’t had the chance to take our usual stroll. As we entered the park, we were greeted by a cacophony of frogs calling out, flirting from dark ditches. He sniffed them out, but generally paid […]
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Unreflected agreement deadens the energy in a rehearsal. I do not believe that collaboration means mechanically doing what the director dictates. Without resistance, there is no fire. The Germans have a useful word that has no suitable English equivalent: Auseinandersetzung. The word, literally ‘to set oneself apart from another,’ is usually translated into English as […]
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Experimentation requires a certain kind of heck care just plunge in attitude. I admit, I’ve always been that kid who didn’t jump into a crater lake with all his clothes on, like the rest of his friends, because he didn’t want to suffer a 4-hour ride home dripping wet (true story). But I really do […]
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Tan Shou Chen 