Tower Days and Incoming Contortionists

As my days in the tower are numbered (there are seven business days left, not counting today) all the parts of my life that got coaxed to sleep (by ether) are waking up one by one...and the beast is hungry.

Luckily, life is a feast-- and one that you should never stop eating regardless of the work that you devote your life to. The things I have learned in the past six months I don't expect I'll forget. For one, a sense of compassion and understanding for people who do work onsite 40, 60, and 70 hour weeks. And when they have spouses and children, that compassion becomes awe.

And so, as a most excellent breakfast, the Ineffable Beloved herself is coming up to our shrouded city! One of my favorite people in the whole world, not to mention a visionary performer, the fabulous Kristina Nekyia.

And if you're in Seattle, you lucky dogs, you too can benefit from her years of carefully combing through tears and techniques to bring you her own ecelectic flavor of flexibility training.

What: Yes, a flexibility workshop at our own Emerald City Trapeze Arts!
When: Sunday May 1st; 3:30-5:30pm
How much: $45.00

For those taking my hoopery workshop, while this class will tucker you out, it will also bendy you up just in time for hoop at 6! Deeeeelicious!

Viva la Hoop Revolution!!

Everybody's favorite 2nd apparatus (and my favorite 1st) is taking Seattle and the beyond by aerial storm. Why this love for hoops you may ask? Beginners like it because you can actually do some things on it while you are in the process of getting stronger, unlike vertical apparatus. This is useful for building the self-possibility that often gets shattered when training for vertical, but it is a double edged sword...it's easy to do something decent on a hoop. It's much harder to make something magnificent and new...much like pastries, porn, and life in general.

I love the hoop because from the first time I touched it I knew it was in me, and that if I loved her best she would love me back. But enough about me...let's talk more about stuff only partially related to me. I'll be teaching a four-week progressive hoop intensive at Emerald City Trapeze Arts starting Sunday, it filled up fast enough to humble me pretty well.

Aaaand Ireland! It is my very great pleasure to announce that I've been accepted to teach and be taught at the Irish Aerial Dance Festival in Letterkenny, Donegal. Thanks to the fabulous Chantal of Fidget Feet, an Irish aerial dance company I have coveted for a few years now, I'll be joining the ranks of some super star teachers (and students) to bask in their brain and body power. And now I'll need to end this post before I fill it with senseless exclamatories.