What Now?

Had some mis-starts tonight working on Icarus. I think I finally got down to something at the end. Amanda is our Icarus and none of my original ideas worked when I saw them. Finally, an image of Amanda perched on someone's back materialized in my head. It looks about right and this may be my way into the myth: not through the man, but the birds. Not only do Icarus and Daedalus fly like birds with feathered wings, but Daedalus gets in trouble years before for pushing his nephew Talus off the Acropolis and Talus turns into a bird on the way down.

In the middle of this really fuzzy picture from rehearsal, Amanda perches between Alex and Mary Szegda, our newest company member. Mary and I started our MFA degrees together at the U of MD. Welcome Mary!

Had a chat with my wife, Jen, yesterday morning. She made a suggestion about international tours. She thought that it would be fun to spend a month in each country before we perform. That way, I could give classes, meet people, and maybe sell some tickets--or, at least, get more out of the trip than the sight of the inside of a theater. I'm warming to the idea readily. It has been a dream of ours to live abroad anyway. It would only be for a month or so, but what a month!
 
We would stumble around at first, as we do at the beginning of a trip, learning the roads, finding the grocery, accumulating at least the basic common vocabulary: how much is this? where is the bus stop? no, we don't eat any meat. please, thank you, excuse me, toilet. I would experience dancing and teaching in a new environment. Maya would have a look around at the world. Then top it off with a show we'd be proud of. Sounds amazing!