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November 19, 2021 · Collusion

La Réunion (again) with LINES Ballet

I don’t do second takes. I don’t revisit. The world’s too big, too full of places I haven’t screwed up yet, haven’t disappointed myself in. But La Réunion? La Réunion gets a pass. First time around, I barely scratched the surface of this French-African-Indian Ocean fever dream floating off Madagascar’s coast. This time, I’m back […]

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November 17, 2021 · Cinematics

Gallery Exhibit Dance

How funny things are! You go to those museums and galleries and think what a damned bore they are and then, when you least expect it, you find that something you’ve seen comes in useful. It shows art and all that isn’t really waste of time. W. Somerset Maugham, Theatre Adji Cissoko, moving through a […]

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November 5, 2021 · Speculation

Roble Dance Rehearsal

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.Friedrich Nietzsche Chocolate Heads’ rehearsal in Roble dance studio…

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October 15, 2021 · Finca Fiasco

Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park

I’m not going to bullshit you about some mystical awakening or whatever the fuck people claim happens when they see big trees. But laying there on a bed of redwood needles looking up at five month old Charlie, this tiny perfect human who somehow shares my DNA, held by Lindsey in that cathedral of redwoods? […]

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October 4, 2021 · Finca Fiasco

Young and Pretty

Look at this photograph. Lindsey with Charlie at four and a half months. I took this picture and I remember thinking: I need to capture this. Not for Instagram, not for the baby book, not for some future slideshow at his wedding. I needed it for him. For later. For when he’s fifteen or twenty-five […]

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August 2, 2021 · Industries

The Annie Leibovitz of Theatre History Studies (They Never Even Asked)

So I’m screwing around on Google Scholar, because that’s what you do when you’re procrastinating on real work, and there it is. My photograph. We Players’ Macbeth at Fort Point, 2014. On the cover of Theatre History Studies. Published by the University of Alabama Press. An actual academic journal with peer review and footnotes and […]

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July 4, 2021 · Engineering

Sophocles In Time of Need

The Fragment For … shines out in time of need like fine bronze; but if the house is neglected, it collapses. California doesn’t get summer storms. Not real ones. The state runs on a different weather pattern, a different logic. Dry summers, wet winters, and nine months of the year where rain is something you […]

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