New Show

We are mounting Ghosts and Girls at Rhythmix Cultural Works, our home base, and we spent today figuring out the logistics of new transitions of the show in our space. We don't have the luxury of the wings stage left and stage right and a lot of the transitions will be visible to the audience. A new challenge, but we did important work tonight. We also won't have the youthful vibrance of KK or the beautiful shakuhachi work of Christopher, but all that is being worked out.

Part of the challenge of working out taiko transitions is moving the taiko with dignity. It's very easy to bend over and give the audience a great view of your backside, or clamboring and making a great deal of noisy distraction to get a drum on a slant stand. It's the small adjustments making sure that a drum sits snugly on its stand that is so very important, but how do you do that in front of people while making it look smooth and effortless? My goal this week is to spend at least 15 minutes figuring out how to put my drum on a slant stand in one easy move. Ha!

Oh, and if you're intersted, there are some very wonderful photos of the Ghosts and Girls show on the First Voice website.