A Still Life is A Beautiful Life
Liminal, under the sure guidance of recent Chicago Art Institute grad Bryan Markovitz directs Still Life at PSC 2007 JAW festival. Though I'm in New York working on Suzan-Lori Parks with Vortex at Sanford Meiser's old space and The Public, I've contributed some concept choreography to the mix. I'll be in Portland in August for PNWN 5th Richard Foreman Mini-Festival and for purposes of relaxing and hanging out with family, friends and...trees! Collaborators around the world have translated these simple, interpretable instructions into many languages that are available for download. Many thanks to these contributors (to be listed with links soon): Alison, Lukasz, Carsten, Dan, Panos, Suman, and Pavol have given their skills in another language. If you want to add your native tongue, or take the instructions and make your own physical arrangement do and then send me photos! Speaking of choreography, check out this 'prison dance'. How Fromex is that? On other fronts, Iph.then is still in development and will be performed in its final iteration at the New York Richard Forman festival the end of August beginning of September. That's the formal shell...if you know me, you know the dirt: pathetic struggles, distaste for war, feelings of helplessness. [23 july 07]
Colleagues, Comrades, and Cohorts
I just got back to New York after a month in Kentucky at the Humana Festival, and LA working and visiting various people I love. Humana festival was interesting. Many new plays, and a cool group of people. Keep an eye of for Naomi Iizuka's play Strike-Slip, directed by Chay Yew. The cast is top notch. I functioned as the Directing Assistant and also did some work with the Apprentice company - a series of interesting short plays. On other fronts, Iph.Then has its third EPISODE at Ontological on the 31st, I've been working with SouthWing, some folks I met out at Watermill this summer through Bob (Bob's VOOM portraits are gorgeous, by the way. Check them out if you get a chance), and I recently went to LA and jumped out of an airplane. Most fun I've had in ages. Other random notes: here are my Fromex manifestos or Terrorist's Alphabet if you want to read some bizarre writings. [19 mar 07]
deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity
I hope readers know that my titles are often from literature or sources, and consider it a good game to search for the authors and references. So. PLAY is going well, reviews here and here. The Iph.then project I'm working on is going to be part of the Richard Foreman INCUBATOR short form! The pages and pages of manifestos I wrote this summer will be put to good use. Working for Bob is constantly interesting - a chance to see him draw at his desk, hear stories about working in theater, Opera and Hollywood, to be in contact with the work, and of course, see various celebs. And the people in my life continue to do amazing things: a shout out to Poland, and one of my favorite contemporary poets who is on a Fulbright there, Kevin Vaughn. [15 nov 06]
every moment is a new and shocking valuation of all we have been
working for robert wilson, performing some more beckett - PLAY was picked up for another run downtown ghostcrab. have an NPR voice spot coming up soon for a great playwright, nick mwaluko more info to follow as the airing date approaches. living in new york continues to amaze me. my book is in a holding pattern for the moment. i've branched off into fromex 6, a performance project with many contradictory manifestos and gross throbbing meat icons [coming soon]. will be heading out to art institute of chicago to work with bryan on one of his school projects in december. theater work is fragmentary. [19 oct 06]
an end to it all, that all, an end, ended. ending. begin again.
so much since the last update - beckett's centennial had a full moon on the 13th of april, i worked on production of 'krapp's last tape,' which performed at symphony space and currently work on 'play,' and 'catastrophe' which will go up at the chocolate factory at the end of the month. my MFA is nearly completed, only the LA showcase remains. this summer i'll be in vermont at hall farm finishing writing on my book, 'making a physical actor.' liminal feels in limbo, but john b. david a. and i are singing away on 'theory of love.' as if love weren't difficult enough in practice. [05 may 06]
resolution!
for those of you that were following the saga, the office of equal opportunity helped regain $10,000 of the loan money, and then left it up to each individual donor to reacquisition or redonate their funds as they saw fit. we're performing all three shows at csc in janurary. my parents have graciously agreed to leave their donation in the school's possession, and thanks to damali ayo's smart idea, we've decided to earmark it as a scholarship for a non-white, female student with demonstrated economic need in their first or second year in order to throw a little something at vast institutionalized racism, sexism and classism. [25 november 05]
waiting...waiting...
scratch that last entry about the 25K. who knows what is happening with columbia now. we're waiting...yet still rehearsing... [17 october 05]
new = working
this page is up and working, thank you dr. saxe. latest news on the columbia u. saga: after countless hours of meetings with faculty and various school services, they will return the 25K that the class scrambled to commandeer from various sources in only 21 days. what a relief. i swore that i signed up to go to school here to learn more about acting, not fundraising. thank god and country the office of equal opportunity agrees. [06 october 05]
so excoriating it's hilarious
the review of 'lion in the streets' by variety. oh my. [13 september 05]
juggling, CP and feisty romanians
lion in the streets opened on thursday. i juggle four characters, one of which has CP. if you google 'amanda boekelheide' the only other person that shares my name is a 17 year old girl with CP. strange coincidences. we've already had one rather decent review online, check it out here. come see the show, especially on wednesday when the ny times will be in the audience reviewing. columbia's classes have started back up, and feisty romanian niky wolcz's biomechanics training kicks our asses. how does he do that? [10 september 05]
