Our 12th annual dead-of-winter festival of contact improvisation, known as Mazopalooza, was a particularly satisfying one; somehow simpler than most, and working with guest artist Melecio Estrella was a joy. With the help of some excellent co-producers, we pulled off another over-the-top Winter Circus, complete with a cast of over 50, online reservations, and a …
In early October, I headed to the Arizona desert to attend an event where I knew not a soul, at a place that I’d been interested in for decades but had never visited. With its vaulted shade structures and multi-leveled walkways and amphitheaters, Paolo Soleri’s planned artists community, Arcosanti, is the ideal environment to explore …
August – September, 2015 After our Summer season of circus camps and special events came to an end, we headed off on an adventure! We put approximately 5,500 miles on our Prius (50+ mpg all the way!), in order to get to France from Wisconsin. The part of France that’s just off the coast of Newfoundland, that …
Okay, so tuck-pointing doesn’t hold quite the exotic appeal that preparing to perform in a gypsy caravan at nine thousand feet does. But it does feel good to …