Your Autumn Lips

It’s been busy around here.

I crammed a lot into the end of October (a little too much I’m over worked and under the weather).

On October 21st I participated in an performance event at the Location One Gallery.

The evening was curated by my friend David Quinn who asked various people from around town involved in the performing arts to participate in a fundraising event for Location One. I took it as an opportunity to flesh out some ideas that I’d been kicking around in my head. The result was three short solo performances in which I performed, choreographed and designed (costumes and projections.) All of this was only possible because of the amazing people in my life who agreed to work with me on the project – My artist muses/collaborators – Cori Olinghouse, Christopher Williams and Mike Andrews. Composer Derek Piotr built gorgeous soundscapes for each of the three chapters. The fantastic costume and knitting skills of Craig Hunter and Kit Lee helped me realize the looks for the pieces with some rad accessories by Sam McFadden. And generous friends gave of their time to form the video projections – Grant Worth as editor and performers Ananda Keator, Betty Chen, Felipe Vasquez, Kit Lee, Nathan Crislip, Raja Kelly, and Will Penrose. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. You all amaze me.

Unfortunately because I was quite distracted I didn’t arrange to have someone document the performances …  I plan to re-stage these pieces for documentation. More on this project soon. In the meantime more info can be read here.

Below is an excerpt from the video projection, which acted as my set, that ran during the third sequence – “Raven”.

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Below are photographs I shot for my friend and collaborator Christopher Williams last week. The photographs are for the Wolf-in-Skins opera project that we are working on together. The dancers pictured are Burr Johnson and Kira Blazek . Choreography by Christopher Williams.

Then of course it was Halloween, and it’s hard for me to just brush that off. A delightfully successful collaboration with the exquisite Jordan Isadore led to a Dia de los Muertos couple (all paper and and paint). ¡Guapísimo!

In the moments between the aforementioned projects I tried to put in as much time as I could at my freelance job at Izquierdo Studio (which is always busy at Halloween). Martin Izquierdo has designed Heidi Klum’s Halloween costume for years and this year was no exception. Actually this year he designed her two! The Skinless Woman and The Missing Link between man and ape.

Time Capsule

Jillian Mayer… brilliant

I Am Your Grandma
Lyrics and Video: Jillian Mayer

Musical Score: Michael John Hancock
Director of Photography: Daniel Fernandez
Costumes and Masks: Wildchild World
Assistant Director/ Co-Producer/Editor: Lucas Leyva

Happy Holidays

Some holiday cheer from Joseph Keckler; his new Talking Beast video is so much fun.

Joseph asked me to be in his video and what fun it was! I’d run around town anytime with this beast posse.

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Talking Beast -from Joseph Keckler’s EP, Featured Creatures. Based on the pre-Christian legend that at midnight on (the day now known as) Christmas Eve, animals suddenly acquire the power of speech.

 

WallCrawlers

Good art day in New York.
Today I caught the opening of Off The Wall -part 2 – Seven Works by Trisha Brown at the Whitney Museum. I was excited to see a staging of Brown‘s famous Walking on the Wall piece. The dancers, in harnesses tethered to a track along the ceiling, performed on the wall!
And as an added bonus Stephen Petronio walked down the exterior wall of the Whitney.
Inspiring.

Stephen Petronio performing Walking Down the Side of a Building (the Whitney)              photo: AndyToad

voyage

The Voyage of Garbhglas

Images on my flickr from my friend Christopher’s piece at the Irish Hunger Memorial earlier this month. Carol Binion did the fantastic costumes and I coordinated them for this show. It was a wonder to see winged faeries and “protuberance” demons dancing in Lower Manhattan. Most of these photos I took but there are also some from Michael Wang and James Wagner.

Shapeshifting


My friend Cori Olinghouse and I continue to work on a project together, a series of experiments in vaudeville and shapeshifting.  Our project is a work in progress so I can’t say much yet. Video from our first showing, The Animal Suite, can be seen here.  And I will share this sketch….