I love New York – 4 Years Later
Laboratory Dancers In Full Swing!
Tentative rehearsal times are Wednesdays from 5-9pm and Sundays from 1-5pm. If you have any scheduling conflicts regarding the audition or rehearsal times, please contact us at laboratorydancers@gmail.com as an alternate audition date is being planned.
AUDITION INFO:
Friday, September 11, 2009
7:00pm - 9:00pm
4057 Damn (near Damen and Lincoln/Irving Park Brown Line)
Enter on Belle Plaine
Also feel free to drop in on Laboratory Dancers Company Class, happening every Sunday from September 6 - October 25 from 10:00am - 12:00pm at the Rumble Arts Center (3413 W North Ave)! Classes include live accompaniment, guest teachers, and stimulating material to suit everyone, regardless of background or experience! This class is open to everyone, even beginners, with just a $5 suggested donation. You will not want to miss it!
Laboratory Dancers is an inclusive artist collective located in Chicago. We are an evolving project-based vehicle for creating and presenting all kinds of art from dance to magic.
Laboratory Dancers strives to fertilize a breeding ground for people to come out and create provocative conversation starters through any means or medium. We wish to provide a catalyst for production of ideas, a stage for the slow digestion of ideas and a collective of people to instigate the exchange between consumption and production.
Welcome to our Laboratory.
Less is more.
Erin (from Unclutterer) started with this:
Then she posted the following, from the article that sparked her thoughts:There are many reasons why I have chosen to live an uncluttered life, and one of those reasons is that I’m lazy. If I need to do something I’m not super excited about doing, I want it to take the least amount of time possible and I want it to cause me little or no stress. I’ve created simple routines for things like cleaning and getting ready in the morning because I need to do these things but don’t want to waste mental energy on them.
An example of this is processing mail when I come home: I instantly shred, recycle, or respond to the mail right when I walk in the door. This routine usually takes me two to three minutes, and then I don’t think about the mail or see it again. I used to just collect it and place it on the dining room table, then I would have to touch it again to move it so that we could sit down to dinner, then I would see it after dinner and think about it again, and then I would have to deal with it after worrying about it some more. In the past, I would spend 15 to 20 minutes thinking about the mail each night. Being “lazy” and organized with my mail saves me quite a bit of time over the course of the year. That, and I never have to worry about paying bills late.
Less is more. Really. In our dancing, in our relationships with other dancers, in the amount of thought we put into the interactions and steps and everything that surrounds the tango scene ... and outside of tango, in the rest of our lives.Do Less: The Ultimate Simple Productivity
It may seem paradoxical that Do Less can mean you’re more productive — and if you define “productive” as meaning “get more done” or “do more”, then no, Do Less won’t lead to that kind of productivity.
But if instead you define “productivity” as a means of making the most of your actions, of the time you spend working (or doing anything), of being as effective as possible, then Do Less is the best way to be productive.
Consider: I can work all day in a flurry of frenetic activity, only to get a little done, especially when it comes to lasting achievement. Or I can do just a couple things that take an hour, but those are key actions that will lead to real achievement. In the second example, you did less, but the time you spent counted for more.
Let’s take the example of a blogger: I can write a dozen posts that really say nothing, mean nothing, but take up my entire day … or I can write one post that affects thousands of people, that really reaches to the heart of my readers’ lives, and takes me 1.5 hours to write. I did less, but made my words and time count for more.
If you’re lazy, as I often am, then the choice is simple. Do Less.
But do it smartly: Do Less, but make every action count. Send fewer emails, but make them important. Write fewer words, but make each word essential. Really consider the impact of every action you take, and see if you can eliminate some actions. See if you can achieve a great impact doing less.
This doesn’t mean “less is more”. It means “less is better”.
Performance Pictures!
Liver Bashing Hookers and Human Pretzels Before Breakfast
Making News Headlines in California
The photos from another press source can be found here.
Happy Birthday, Michael. We Miss You.
PeriChild Program 2009 Registration
If you haven't done so already, it's not too late to register your child for for the Fall session of the PeriChild Program 2009.
We have so many different styles of classes for dancers from toddlers to teens!
Register on the Peridance website or by calling 212-505-0886.
Roxy Menzies. Gyspy Dancer.
Concord: The Australian Ballet triple bill
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State Theatre, Melbourne
With fresh creations from two of the world’s most in-demand choreographers and a modern favourite, this is a most contemporary Australian Ballet triple bill.
Nacho Duato's Por vos muero sits alongside Wayne McGregor's post-modern Dyad 1929 and Alexei Ratmansky's reworking of the Massine story ballet Scuola di ballo.
Opinions have varied about the success of the program, so for those unable to see it for themselves, here's a collection of links to reviews:
Michelle Potter's blog calls Dyad 1929 "brave and challenging", but Eamonn Kelly in The Australian found the movement "cold".
Stephanie Glickman on Australian Stage lauds the commitment of the company's versatile dancers.
My review is published on Arts Hub, and Robin Grove's brief but positive review is on The Age website
Got an opinion of your own? Let me know what you thought!
DanceNorth: looking for new dancers
Dancenorth, one of Australia’s leading contemporary dance-theatre companies is calling for expressions of interest from male and female dancers for contracts beginning February 2010.
Applicants should have trained at a recognised school or conservatoire and have strong contemporary and classical dance technique. Dancenorth repertoire is highly physical and will often involve character development, so an ability to improvise and participate in the creation of choreographic material is essential. Understanding you will be part of a small company, and the need to make a commitment to living in the North of Queensland is essential in making an expression of interest. Auditions will be by invitation only and be held on Sunday, 18th October at Dancehouse in Melbourne, Australia.
To apply please follow the instructions as follows: Please complete your contact details and attach the following information then email directly to raewyn@dancenorth.com.au by 15 September 2009.
Name / Date of Birth / Best contact email / Express why you are interested in working with Dancenorth?
Include a short Bio and a photo
From the above submission the Artistic Director will make an invitation directly to you by email to participate in the audition, in Melbourne. Selected participants should be prepared to take part in a ballet class, followed by performing a short solo of your own choreography that lasts no longer than 1 minute.
From this process a second short-list will be compiled and if selected you will then complete a set task and a brief interview with Artistic Director Raewyn Hill.
