FINAL PERFORMANCES OF RAIN AFTER ASH
The final two performances of Rain After Ash at the Pacific Asia were packed last night. Positive buzz spread just as we had to dissolve our merry band. Ah well, that’s festivals for you. Still, it’s been such a wonderful and rare experience to make this piece, I want to express my gratitude here. We simply ...
RAIN on RAIN AFTER ASH???
This morning several people emailed me, “What if it rains on RAIN AFTER ASH?!! Will the show go on? ” The prospect of rain on our opening reminds me of the very practical role the gods played in ancient Greece. What a perfect way to explain all the things out of our control. “Sorry, folks, ...
Writing RAIN COREY MADDEN
Writing RAIN I don’t know exactly when I started, but I like to write very early in the morning with my eyes closed and all the lights off in the house. It’s as if I can be in two worlds when I do; one glimpsed through my lashes, the worn out “N” and “S” keys ...
RAIN AFTER ASH -DAY 5 Rehearsal – Marnie Mosiman
DAY 5 –Rehearsal…Rain After Ash Lying on the dusty floor at ATV- drunk…or at least trying to remember drunkenness…was I ever so drunk that I lay on the floor singing? Maybe… I certainly remember the little ones, their grins and giggles as I made up songs to tickle them under their chins, their bare little ...
RAIN AFTER ASH Jeffrey Gardner – UNDERSTANDING CRAIG
Understanding Craig: ‘A destination needs desire. To reach it requires will. The wanderer has will without desire, to move without getting anywhere, but to keep moving.’ Craig Arnold One of the very first challenges I gave myself was to hike along the trails of our very own Verdugo Mountains. With a pack on my back ...
RAIN AFTER ASH October 1, 2011
Late one night Spring 2009 I came upon the headline “Missing Poet” on the New York Times website and clicked through to read the following: “Craig Arnold who was working on a book of lyric essays ‘about volcanoes and the end of the world as we know it’, was climbing a volcano alone early this ...
AxS Video Blog
This blog will have links to our VIMEO channel, featuring behind the scenes videos of our artists building the works commissioned for AxS Festival 2011 | FIRE and WATER. Stay tuned . . . .
