Thursday, June 28th, 2007
phew! I have finally finished putting through my application for the Dance, Theatre and
Performance foundation degree course I am hoping to do over the next couple of years! With 2 days to spare I have cut it quite fine to get my application in, especially considering I started looking at this course in September last year!!
I’m really excited about the course, which includes so many interesting modules that I am just aching to study!
Year One:
Contemporary Dance Technique
Solo Choreography
Improvisation
Understanding the Body
Community Project
Dance Theatre in Context
Work-based learning
Study Skills
Year Two:
Dance Theatre Repertory
Group Choreography
Physical Theatre
Dance Film
Performance Project
Independent Professional Project
And those are just the options! Somehow I have to choose between all of these things! But I haven’t been accepted on to the course yet, so mustn’t allow myself to get too excited… still….. 
boing!
The other awesome thing about this course is that it is run in conjunction with the Bristol Community Dance Centre, and I would have free access to the evening dance courses they run there:
T
YOGA
*big hopeful smiles*
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Just back from the Southern Lights Festival in Dorset - small juggly-spinny
convention-type festival, where Chimaera just premiered a lot of new routines for the Secret Garden show we are running this summer. WOoooooooooooooooooooo! and yaaaaaaayyyyyy! slick and rockin! Shy only one performer for the event, we managed to run almost the full show, and we all felt really good about it 
after 9 months of rehearsing, we felt well prepared and psyched to finally showcase some of what we have been dedicating SO MUCH time to!
And it went brilliantly! Very few mistakes in any routines, tight well-rehearsed choreography, slick transitions, great support crew, smoke machine moodiness!!, no safety issues… but most importantly everyone was performing the show, not just running it or trying to get routines right There was a great vibe, everyone wanted to give their all and everyone did! …. and it showed! We had a fantastic reception from the crowd during and then all night after the show! Nice one
We started the festie on a high from a really good gig we did in Bristol on the Friday night, then heading straight down to Poole for this at 3am to bounce around a field with some remarkably silly people 
Then of course after the show on the Saturday the partying was (at least for everyone in Chimaera) on a massive high
The festival itself was a great one for me - completely different to the music or hippy festivals in the summer, it was 300 people or so, which created a really intimate
atmosphere. For the first time in ages I just had time to play and dance my heart out for hours at a time, and not feel guilty for not working, or organising some hippies to do a rehearsal! Great. I like being thoroughly selfish with my time every now and again. And I love being able to wake up and dance in the sunshine as a warm-up to the day’s activities
Now back in Bristol, I am feeling contentedly tired and happy. I lead a very blessed life right now.
Sunday, June 10th, 2007
*Right, the photo editting options in this program seem to have disappeared, so bear with the oversized piccies for now!!*
yay hooray for being a hive of activity!!
I could just never be happy without lots of projects running at the same time! I love being busy (when I’m doing things I love that is!)… and right now I am so blessed to be able to be pursueing activities that I am so passionate about! performing, training, organising and directing (hippy-whipping), and generally stylin the summer festies!! hoorah!
Quick Festie Review:
Sunrise Festival (nr Yeovil, in SW England) was lotsssss of fun! What a beautiful way to kick off the festival season!
Our Fire-performance: It was never going to be a hard-core showcase of Chimaera’s performance - the shows we put together for this festie were collaborative things with lots of other performers - which meant less stress, less expectation, more fun playing with lots of people and interesting new inspiration (!!)
The Festie: Of course the festival itself was faaaantaaastic! Such a huge variety of things to
see, do, hear and bounce to! The Invisible Circus Crew were out in force with streetshow style stages, cabaret, freak-stalls and general debaucherous late-night weirdness! There was plenty of walkabout entertainment, drumming workshops, arts and crafts galleries and workshops; a great selection of acoustic music and poetry in the smaller tents, and some bangin DJ sets and live acts in the FishEatsBicycle tent, Waveform and the Mainstage Highlights for me were Zion Train on Sat…. but of course completely unbeatable - DREADZONE!!!!!!!
on the sunday… and would you believe it? It was the first time I’d ever seen them play live?! ( - did I mention that Dave? )
The whole atmostphere there was beautiful! The weather after thursday’s wetness also just lifted to warmth and sunshine - and beautiful sunrises! Overall a lovely lovely festival, got to know some people better, had a wicked bounce and bimble about throghout the evenings with friends…. oh and another highlight has to be the hoop-spin, free-dance and contact-dance that occurred magicly at 3am on the sunday morning in the ID spiral zone - amaaazing!
and onwards…
coming up is a fire-spinners’ convention/festival in the New Forest at the weekend: Southern Lights;
then sadly reduced from the big show we were supposed to be doing there to a 6-person groundshow: Glastonbury Festival;
then crewing for a festival in Switzerland: Zurifascht
after that a festival in a different class don’t you know? Henley Festival (avec le FlameOz);
then a hippy/psy-trancey festival, which I’ll be working my ass off for: Glade Festival
then another spinners/jugglers festie: PLAY Festival
…. and that takes me to the end of July…. after which much much more happens, but I’m still really busy working on all of these projects right now, and have to get ready for a full day on rehearsals now! byeeeee
hugs,
Lx
