There might be a way to use this lacunagroup blog other than just sitting shiva for the International William Blake’s Inn Event.
Since we’re all out there dabbling in this and that, making names for ourselves, cementing reputations and the like, let’s use this blog as a way to check in with one another and discuss our various ongoing creative performance experiences, those occuring out and about on the cultural landscape and those taking place in our inner theatre spaces. Performance is a unique method of thinking in addition to everything else you can say about it, and the discoveries we make when engaged in this kind of thinking can be quite compelling and interesting. Our adventures will be amusing and encouraging, and our frustrations might be lessened if shared. And let that be the last painfully earnest and boring thing I say. Do you want to try this with this post’s comments section? Some sharing will require anonymity, I realize, and some facts and personages will require disguise. More creative opportunities!
We’ve got this performance at Barnes & Noble coming up and I find I’m nervous because I have not been vocalizing all Summer. Oddly enough, this was the first Summer at GHP I did not attempt vocalizing warm ups with the students. Apathy? Worn down by avoiding opportunities? My confidence in getting through these William Blake efforts has always been fueled by my knowing I could produce a certain texture of “sound,” a kind of resonant bigness with a buzzing focused beam at work. This is how I’ve always compensated for not regarding myself as a “singer,” having come to musical performance rather late (in my mind). If you regard this attitude toward voice as my power source, you can say I’ve avoided keeping my batteries charged.