Leigh Hendrix is a Providence, RI based theatre artist and educator. How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Less is her solo performance piece and this is her blog.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
BABY THINGS
oh dear
I need this to stop because look at that seal. LOOK AT THAT PIGLET!
small fires: It feels a bit presumptuous to try to write about such large-scale...
It feels a bit presumptuous to try to write about such large-scale tragedy, but it is what I do now. To try to make sense of pain. To try to find a way to go on. To resist the immobilizing fear.
I read the news on twitter and through the afternoon, obsessively refresh my feed, which is at…
This is a thing I did. I’m pretty proud of it. Glitter shoes and RuPaul and feelings.
“I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You” written by and illustrated by Yumi Sakugawa, published in Sadie Magazine, 2012.
Guys.
“You know how lesbians love Halloween?”
What Do You Think Melissa Etheridge Is Doing For Halloween?
I am not ashamed to say that I started to cry when they were marching in the middle of this mall. I know it is simply an interesting way to market the production but it moved me so much. I think I feel that way about singing a lot, musicals specifically, and I also attach a ton of memories to Les Mis from listening to the soundtrack growing up and seeing it on Broadway the first time I ever went to New York. Watch this.
The Polish cast of Les Miserables performs a flash-mob version of ‘Jeszcze Dzień’ (‘One Day More’) at Złote Tarasy in Warsaw, 15 April 2011.
I am not in the least exaggerating when I tell you that the only thing more wonderful to me than this video would be to be able to go back in time and be at ZT that day.
Process. Or Something Like That.
I didn’t get to take the workshop with Guillermo Gomez Pena at AS220 that led to this performance at 95 Empire because I work for the space where the workshop and performance were held and I had work to do to help make it happen. And it happened and it was wonderful.
I was able to spend some time with Guillermo and his collaborator Michelle Ceballos Michot here and there and it was always interesting and energizing, but the only time I heard him speaking about making work, about collaboration, was when I passed by the door of the black box that was propped open just a little bit. I heard Guillermo’s voice speaking to a silent (I presume enraptured) room:
“Treat your collaborators with a tenderness, kindness, but also a firmness. You are becoming la familia…”
He was likely speaking specifically about how this temporary ensemble of local art makers should come together in just three short days to make a show people would be coming to see.
But it resonated so deeply with me as I move back into a collaborative theatre making pair to finish creating a show we have started and as I look around me for new collaborators, new people to help me make things. It felt like the universe tapping me on the shoulder as I made meaning of a coincidence; the only words I heard from the workshop were the exact words I needed to hear.
How easily
we are undone,
knowing the events
without the plot: caution and light and the odor of skin
threading
the secret, a loom. What will happen?
From Jorie Graham’s “On Why I Would Betray You,” in Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts. 1980.
