First order of business: Notice how messy my desk is and then realize I don’t care. Favorite thing about her job: I can wear comfortable clothes and don’t have to wear killer shoes. I love teaching, especially my outreach programs where I get to walk in the door with a bag full of fun, and leave with a pocket filled with smiles. I love our studios, they are sacred. I love the way our mission can impact so many people in such positive ways. Least favorite thing about her job: Where are the men? miss the testosterone. Looking for things that Jarin has hidden. Deadlines.
The problem with great dance concerts, like the recent Gallim Dance program, is that they go by way too fast. It’s hard to hold onto those priceless images that pass you like a freight train. This is why I am so happy to be the editor of the videotape! Through this process the whole experience gets to be cemented in my brain for future reference. Over these last 25 years of bringing in stellar dance companies, I have a warehouse of memorable moments. Recently, the Joe Goode Performance Group contacted me asking for the video footage from “Take Place,” that was performed here in 1995. “It was the best,” they said, as they were preparing for a Joe Goode film festival. I recall watching the last 10 minutes of that concert over and over again. It just filled me. Footage from the Trisha Brown Dance Company concert in 2003 that we presented was used for a documentary on the company for the BBC! We’ve been lucky to have nearly all of our guest companies allow for us to videotape their performances that are taped by Access Fort Wayne for playback on the local channel 57. Fort Wayne Dance Collective has a regular time slot on the first and third Saturday of each month at 9 p.m. It will take me a couple of months to finish editing this show as I’m learning a new software program, but be patient, you will get to see the show all over again as well! Special thanks to all the folks at Access Fort Wayne for their support in helping us share these wonderful concerts with the community.