yoga & sencha & dragon pearls

It’s been a very full spring and summer. I’m in the process of cleaning up from all the collaborations and performances I was involved with. Here’s a synopsis of what I’ve been doing.

I recently returned from an amazing 10-day workshop with Richard Armstrong in Banff. The International Voice Workshops have been running at the Banff Centre for many many years. The last time I attended was in 2001, then worked privately with Richard in NYC in 2002, then he & I kept missing each other through my [...]

I’m the featured poet this Sunday at the 7th “Tonight it’s Poetry” reading.
June 1, 2008 – 8pm
Flint Bar – 259 2nd Ave South, Saskatoon

In my recovery I’ve been reading a lot: online and books. I am trying to keep up with my “professional” reading as well as some reading for enjoyment. However, being a multidisicplinary artist my professional reading includes reading about music, writing, theatre, movement, and performance art. That makes for a lot of reading.
An issue [...]

A couple of weeks ago I received a package from Istanbul. It took me a minute to recall who might be sending me a package from such an exotic place and then I remembered the wonderfully intense Nick Hobbs from Pantheatre. The package contained a CD of photos from the two Pantheatre workshops I attended [...]

Last Thursday I listened to the CBC broadcast of Frobisher, the new opera by composer John Estacio and librettist John Murrell. The opera is a co-production between Calgary Opera and the Banff Centre and is being used as the piece for the Banff Centre’s summer opera training program. I wonder a bit about that last [...]

While I’ve been convalescing I’ve been reading a number of New Music blogs and arts articles. In a very odd way I am more in touch with what is going on in New Music than I’ve been for a number of years because of it.

So much for my plan of posting once a week! I’ve been keeping myself oddly busy with convalescence and cleaning up some admin work I need to get out of the way before I do some real work.

Less than one week until we leave the UK! We’ve been packing up our place, selling off a bunch of stuff and having rather busy social lives in preparation to leave.

I have finished my MA Project!!! splanchnologies went very well and I had an amazing team of people to help me with the work. Thank you thank you thank you to Verity, Olly, Tam, and especially Yula and Andy who performed in “tongues in 7.” Especially especially Andy who chauffeured me, gave great comments, and [...]