So yeah...as the title probably suggests, things have already started to get a bit hectic around here. As we approach approximately one month until the end-of-year ProTrack shows here at NECCA, there is a whole lot of stuff that has been going on. I've been meaning to write a blog post for a while, but I've been so darn distracted by everything lately that I haven't been able to find a time where I could sit down and comfortably write a blog post. Well, anyway, here I am, figuring that I might as well write a new one before there ends up being too many topics to talk about. Since it's been a little while (actually, it's frequently a little while, which is why my blog posts often tend to be so huge), this is really a six-in-one of normal sized blog posts blog post, conveniently structured in concordance with the title! Yay! Here we go:
1. Performances
On March 26 and 27, I had the wonderful opportunities to perform at both Brandeis University as a part of their Relay for Life in Waltham, MA and the Bindlestiff Cavalcade of Youth at Cony Island, NY. I spent the week beforehand preparing a 4.5 minute single point trapeze act, which wasn't necessarily intended to be related in terms of style to my final single point trapeze piece for the end of the year at ProTrack. I ultimately found the decision of having two separate single point trapeze acts beneficial for two reasons: 1. I'll now be able to use both of the songs I was debating over for my major (I used "You Don't Know Me" by Apparat for these performances, whereas I'm going to be using "Mission" by Beats Antique for my final performances at ProTrack). 2. It enables me to be able to sell both a static-height and dynamic-height act. Initially, when I was considering the technical details of my major, I thought it would be best to make an act that didn't utilize the pulley system (which can raise and lower the apparatus) for sake of it'd be easier to sell and accommodate to more performance spaces. Now that I have an a presentable act that is for static height single point trapeze, I feel much more free to work to my heart's content with the pulley system they have at NECCA, which has been great so far!
The performance at Brandeis was set up by one of my camp friends' mom, Marci Diamond, who is also a graduate of the university (as a sidenote, for those of you who don't already know, this is also the college I'm planning on going to after ProTrack starting January 2012). I was performing with her, her daughter, Marisa, my two camp friend Llama and Doug, and another performer who has been training at NECCA some, Rocco. We set up an aerial rig, put together an intro and finale in about five minutes, and each performed our pieces. It was a lot of fun to perform and see my friends, and definitely nice to see how much everyone had improved.
The Bindlestiff Cavalcade of Youth performance is a simple sign-up-and-go one-time performance. I figured it'd be a fun thing to do, not to mention a good start to beefing up the performance section of my résumé. It was a fun performance. There were some people from Smirkus camp that I recognized there, but nobody I really knew knew. Regardless, below is a combo video of the two performances:
the story of an intermediary journey between ground and sky, childhood and adulthood, and now and forever.
