tech

it's tech week so the five year olds' class was held in the same building as the theatre, which made it easy for me to pop into chanda's rehearsal.

 
receiving notes for a group piece she's dancing in . . 

(her friend amelia's piece titled, in the presence of . . )

waiting for the lighting designer (serena) to be ready . . 

morningtide, (music by toru takemitsu - toward the sea ii, cape cod)

discussion afterwards with ellen and serena . . 

it's tech week

morgan has off this week from babysitting the twins but has been running around with a friend, ollie, who has been visiting, and helping ellen with preparations for the concert while also helping victoria with paperwork, furniture storage and media presentation for the films victoria has been working on . . this is all in addition to choreographing a dance with deychen and with krista. today deychen came by to sync their sound with background projections they will be using.

 

 chanda's classes have started this week. sunday evening morgana and friends visited chanda in her neighborhood and on monday they visited korrina's restaurant (korrina was off so she could also enjoy the evening with everyone too). yesterday we said good-bye to aisha who flew back to london. ollie flies home friday.

 

i took my camera with me to this evening's tech rehearsal with morgan and krista . . 

 

i'm not sure yet what the title will be of this piece, nor what the music is . . 

i'll include more parts of it later this weekend.

ellen going over some notes with marina . . 

it poured all night and all of us were a wet mess when arriving at our destinations. morgan ended up teching an hour earlier and i had to rush out of the apartment in order to catch it in time, leaving greg stranded as he wasn't home yet and didn't have keys (i gave my keys to victoria to use during her stay and he had then given his keys to me . . ) we met him coming home . . he had stopped to get a turkey wrap at a local restaurant and then waited for us outside under an umbrella. we were all very wet when we walked back into the apartment. morgan, ollie, victoria and i sat down to a dinner of fried rice with broccoli and sugar snap peas that had been sitting on the stove. victoria had been to see several short films by alexander hammid at the film archive.

the alumni concert: backstage pics and after the show pics

we had breakfast together this morning (corn grits and green tea) before the girls went off to the theatre. i don't remember what greg is talking about. i wonder if they do.

i was happy that morgana sent me backstage photos . . 

 fixing francesca's hair . . 

now for the "after" pics:

 morgana with roxanne and carla of the limon company (whom she did day on earth with) and samantha of the anna sokolow company.

 the young people went off to have dinner at a thai restaurant (spice) . .

 while the older folks went to amorino for hot chocolate and gelato . . 

(the hot chocolate was too thick for me . . i wished i had ordered the gelato instead).

dress rehearsal photos

pics from chanda's dance titled november . . 

 pics from morgana's dance titled breach . . 

 pics from their friend amelia's dance which chanda was in . . 

i can't believe i didn't take any video!

honey, knitting, tech rehearsal and . . . it's still holiday time!

 morgana brought back honey from her austrian mom's bees. it is wonderfully delicious and is now one of my favorite honey flavors along with chestnut and sage (we had the sage just this summer in san francisco). i'm enjoying it this morning in a cup of christmas tea.

we've been working on knitting napkins for morgana to take back to austria. they're a little larger than normal, as her austrian host mom likes using them as a place setting.

last night was tech rehearsal for saturday's show. here krista is hanging special lights for morgana's dance.

 

morgana is using one of the chairs that go with nana and nonno's country dining set that sits in the basement out on montauk. we didn't have enough chairs here at home, so i "borrowed" a few . . i'm a little trepidatious about having her use it, which annoys her tremendously.

chanda took the above pics. she was supposed to take a few of her own dance that she choreographed for the show, but i don't see any after uploading this morning. i'll have to ask her later (she did a group piece that she isn't dancing in). below is a pic of their friend amelia's dance. chanda is just to the left of amelia, in a pink dress (photo taken by morgana):

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also, i have declared it "holiday time" until morgana returns to austria this coming tuesday. what does this mean? it means that i can still play my favorite christmas music (nomad christmas this morning) and drink christmas tea (i've already finished the christmas coffee that san sent) and eat christmas cake. at first i thought there wasn't any christmas cake to be had this morning, but then i remembered the apple cake that was sitting on top of the refrigerator:

morgana  made a loaf of this last year and i thought that maybe she had put in a little too much fruit and nuts, but now i realize it's kind of like a fruit cake that my mom used to make, but without the candied citron. it has lots of figs and hazelnuts and is very good.

merry christmas! happy new year!