Saturday, April 01, 2006

Hell

Last night I went to Hell (the opera, that is, running at PS 122 through April 9th). Juliana Snapper (below)

was singing the Poet and it's worth the evening just to hear her sing one line of the libretto: about an artist's power to connect - one to another, one to many, many to one - and the courage and openness it takes to do just that ( "..."a person stands in their body...breathing..." ). I'd first met Juliana when she invited me to perform at Teknika Radica's Powering Up, Powering Down conference in San Diego in January 2004 - which is still the best conference I've attended or performed at. Kudos to that collective/collection of grad students, they pulled off what most of academia doesn't.

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