I'm back, Dublin! As the weather tries to figure out how warm or cold Autumn's going to be this year, the Deer are hiding from hunters in my neighborhood.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW! Spitfires of the Spaceways
Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution as Autumn settles in! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: The opening of our Members Only! Autumn Salon at the Hockaday Museum of Art is actually NEXT Thursday. I'm still doing that noontime brown-bag lecture at Flathead Valley Community College on Monday, October 23, 2006 about Footsbarn Theatre's 35th Anniversary -- all those photos I've posted will be used in the Power Point presentation.

Theater/Theatre: For a change -- my friend Katie Duck in Amsterdam, plus her friend/dancing partner Makiko Ito from Tokyo at Studio 7, Eerste Nassaustraat 7

Makiko Ito / December 2-3 (sat-sun) /13:00-17:00 / Performance improvisation / 50 EU

This workshop is aimed at Performance Improvisation for group work. Focus is placed on dancing from spatial tension - “Ma” - meaning “in between” for example: wall to wall, wall to performer, performer to performer, public to performer, public to public, past to present, present to imagination.
The key phrase for this work is “something created from behind”.
I will use exercises, games and structures in order to help guide the dancer toward a creative, spatial vocabulary while maintaining a focus on group work. My concern is for the dancer to be able to since the space in a way which allows for the ensemble to merge creatively without compromising individual integrity.
This workshop will end with a showing at the OT301

Katie Duck / December 27-31 (wed-sun) / 13:00-17:00 / improvisation 120 EU

The content of this workshop is geared toward performing (dance or actors) artists and musicians who are interested in amplifying live time in a performance space and practicing interdisciplinary art activities. The aim is to provide a situation where performers and musicians can grow in confidence in how they perform in real time. The workshop contains warm-up, lessons around body (brain) awareness and composition with a daily improvisation session. www.katieduck.com
Feelings of pain or pleasure, or some quality in between, are the bedrock of our minds. We often fail to notice this simple reality because the mental images of the words and sentences that describe them use up so much of our overburdened attention. But there they are, feelings of myriad emotions and related states, the continuous musical line of our minds, the unstoppable humming of the most universal of melodies that only dies down when we are occupied by joy, or a mournful requiem when sorrow takes over ..... Antonio Damasio


Extraordinary dancer Katie Duck from clips available on http://justinmorrison.net -- that's Makiko's face in the blue frame, along with Vincent Cacialano.
Original videos by Justin Morrison (blue) and Alex Fischer (b&w)