June 8 2013

Don Juan in Tech Rehearsal February 2013. Photo: Manuel Rotenberg. Dancers: Max Tchernychev & Stephanie Maiorano. More moments from the Act Two Dream section adagio.

Don Juan in Tech Rehearsal February 2013. Photo: Manuel Rotenberg. Dancers: Max Tchernychev & Stephanie Maiorano. Very ardent.

Daily Stuff: Still in LA. Went to the Los Angeles Dance Summit. It was interesting to hear a community that is so close to us in San Diego. Many of the same issues (affordable space) and a few unique ones (the big for profit vs not for profit communities) and how they intersect. It was did solidify many of the feelings and ideas I have been thinking about recently.

And I will say that we San Diego artists did represent. At lunch time, we had a great strategy session for what we can possibly do in San Diego. Two nice breakout sessions.

Afterwards, hooked up with Doug Jacobs and went to see a dance theatre piece called A Fried Octopus at an interesting LA space called the Bootleg Theater. The piece was described as being "inspired by the women in the paintings of Toulouse Lautrec" and "diving into a pool of absinthe to find the divine feminine bubbling up as the male ideal of art surrenders to the forces that influence us all."

I guess. It is hard for me to get too deep sometimes. I have a fairly simple mind. But as I have mentioned before, the whole "pitting male against female" doesn't really work for me. But there was some nice work done in the evening. My favorite part was a very beautiful lit section with a nude male actor giving a monologue about a female artist's model.

Honestly, my least favorite part was the beginning. It was just TOO LOUD.

But DO check it out if you are in LA, http://www.bootlegtheater.org/

Afterwards went to a very nice Italian place in Highland Park. Maximilliano. http://maximilianohp.com/ Nice food. Nice service (Thank you Jessica). Nice price.