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5 weeks, 5 "acts": week 3

2009-11-09T20:11:46Z

Hey friends! It's week three! This week is a little short, mostly because a) last week was a little long, and b) I am lazy. The experiment was to see if I could put together something that was slow (hard! arrrgh, so hard!) and entirely under th...

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5 Weeks, 5 Acts: Week 2

2009-11-02T18:50:46Z

Okay! There was an incident with the music (short, "don't get me started" version: WMG seems to think their music will do better out in the wide world if no one is allowed to hear it, which seems strange to me, but what the hell do I know) so thi...

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5 weeks, 5 "acts": week 1, "un derriere verre"

2009-10-26T06:53:23Z

If you didn't catch the post below: I am coming up with (and then posting video of) a new short sequence every week for the next five weeks. My goals are: -somewhat fresh choreography -dust off those skills I don't use in my act... -new music...

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five weeks, five sequences, one trapeze

2009-10-24T06:03:37Z

You guys! I just had a cool idea: I've been fooling around with different little mini-sequences on my trapeze, these past weeks. Different heights (for the bar), lots of different music, whatever. I'm thinking it would be a good challenge for ...

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a resounding silence

2009-10-02T19:01:30Z

Oh. Hello, friends. Yes, it has been awhile, hasn't it? It's not even September anymore. Much as I would like to tell you that I have spent the past month in a delirium of performance opportunities and have been far too busy to write, that is ...

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toe hangs at the eleventh hour

2009-08-31T22:16:41Z

WOOO! YEAH! Are you psyched? I'm psyched! Are YOU PSYCHED for TOE HANGS?! Cause here they are, baby! Immortalized in video, my first two totally-unassisted toe hangs--no ropes, no spotter--performed in the context of my act. WOOO! Here's ...

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hey! ho! video!

2009-08-21T14:57:03Z

Three things to note: 1) Whoa. Windows. I knew there was a reason I never film from this angle. 2) Toe hang. There is no toe hang. PROBLEMATIC. 3) That upside-down thing at 2:30? (I call it "kiki twist"--I don't know any of its real names.)...

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hey! ho! video!

2009-08-21T14:57:03Z

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August is the cruellest month

2009-08-15T22:46:58Z

I turn my back for a week and August disappears. This is so typical. Okay, so it was a BAD idea to give myself a one-month deadline in a month when I'm away from my trapeze (and city) for a full week. Duly noted. I had a good time cavorting in...

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Why, Julia, why?

2009-07-24T16:28:14Z

Aragh. Urgh. Okay. Here's a typical conversation between me and my brain, these post-Showcase days: Me: I want to perform! Why am I not performing? I could so perform right this second! Grr! Argh! And then the lovely, talented, and extre...

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