What a week...

Since i last blogged, a lot of stuff has happened. I will spend a disproportionate time on different events, but this is to be expected, because I simply do not care about everything equally.

The last time we spoke, it was just after Faerieworlds (which shall be called FW from here on out, as faerieworlds is not fun to type), and we spent a few days recovering. Nothing terribly interesting happened that week until Friday. I took a wee bike ride downtown to the Eugene Weekly HQ, because a designer I am walking for in a fashion show next week had be be her model for a photoshoot! I am not a model, not is modeling something I want to do seriously, but Hera keeps giving me these jobs to do, and I figure getting my name and face in the paper cannot possibly be a bad thing. So I wore this really poofy vest, and pants that can only be described as MC Hammer parachute pants meets 1800's ladies long underwear. Needless to say, I didn't know what emotion to really go for, and when I asked for a suggestion from Hera, her response was both awesome and completely unhelpful and was to "think Tim Burton." So, if you see the article in the paper this week, that's what I was going for. That's what the kid who stumbled into modeling and has had no training and has never done a photoshoot before. Not gonna lie, wasn't my best work - the goth look is my safety box (see spring fashion show pictures) and stepping outside of it is something I am still getting used to.

The photoshoot was short, and Jeremy and Lyra got distracted on their way out of town by a garage sale, so they had to go home to drop their haul off, which allowed me to jump in the car with them and go on a road trip to ashland. We were going to ashland because the next morning, an event I shall call the shakesale was going on. The shakesale is where they sell off (for very cheap) all of the costumes that the shakespeare plays had been using for the past 5 years. For those of you who don't know, ashland is shakespeare central. I got a pair of white gloves that got used yesterday for the first time (I'll get to that), and J and Lyra got $150 of clothes which filled up 4 garbage bags of clothes. These bags will largely comprise our costume budget for Kirkos for quite some time I think. We also got to hang out with the Mythmaker crew (people who put on Epic shows with seriously cool costumes and stilts and fire - people I will get along with very well) and just have a jolly ol' time.

But now, for some serious news. We were walking around friday night during the first friday art walk, and we were told that there was a trapeze show. And when I hear about someone doing aerial work when I don't know them, I am so going. So we went, and saw some pretty excellent stuff. One thing I couldn't help noticing was how similar the style was to that of Zuzi (a company I worked for in Tucson). Perhaps this was unavoidable, considering they were the only other aerial dance/modern company I have ever seen since Zuzi, but nevertheless, the similarities were uncanny. As it turns out, the person who runs this company moved to Ashland from Tucson, and used to work with Zuzi, and is friends with the women who trained me! Small world when it comes to circus and dance I suppose. In addition to this, I had the privilege of watching a woman named Emily Abrahams. She performed a piece to "The Ghost of You Lingers" by Spoon, and this is when I perked up. Her movement style was so unique, and so incredibly beautiful, and the more I watched, she is the anti-connor. I tend to do very sweeping, curvy movement, because that is what I feel. She was very angular (note: angular≠sharp, it just means straight line movement) and I've never seen someone make angular movement look so beautiful. You will see her influence in my pieces in the future, to be sure.
Emily then followed that piece with one called "Can't Stand The Rain" set to a song by the same name by The Rescues. This piece was mind-blowing. The dance was mixed so seamlessly with the aerial, and it was so incredibly beautiful. She is such a small person. 110 lbs at absolute most. She is about 5'2" and is small is every way it is possible to be. When she did this piece, she commanded the entire room. She filled it up with her energy, and, as my old martial arts teacher used to say, she "took up space." I was inspired, to say the least, and I am working on a new trapeze piece by the same artist, except to the tune of "Before The Fall," a piece which is still developing it's plot. However, what I have so far, coming from the lyrics and my own life, is loving the past, so that you cannot move on. This past continually trips you up, and you keep falling. However, the piece will not conclude with learning how not to get tripped by your past, or even to accept it, but to learn how, when you are falling, to catch yourself. To learn to live with your past, rather than to move past it. And I know how I am going to portray most of that. So, now I need is a show to put this piece in. I'll find one.

So since then, we've been having Tricky Pixie over to dinner, having a lot of fun, dancing around and generally having a good time!


Yesterday I actually got something done. I decided to take my "rock standing" to the next level, and I went downtown to do it. I was wearing clothes such that not a single inch of my skin was showing (I was wearing a mesh hood to cover my face). As it turns out, there was a big eventy thingy going on downtown, and I did my thing there. I would stand perfectly still on a pole (or crouch) and if someone put money in my hat, I would do a balance trick on my hands on top of the pole. I then donated my earnings to the event (which was a fundraiser). So next week, when I have business cards, I will continue to do this downtown, and use it to publicize our company, Kirkos (see last post).
Yeah, then I went to Voodoo Donuts and got a huge donut, and then went home and listened to The Rescues and then went to sleep. It was a good night indeed.

Adios, bloggosphere, until next time!