Dianne Responds To Aaron's Solo

....connection.....connection to self.....connection to other....connection to the natural world.....receptive.....emerging.....connecting.....unfolding.....surrender.....these were the themes of my dance,

Dianne...Vulnerability...Connection

I picked up on a craving for intimacy, authenticity, interconnection and ongoing transformation in Dianne’s communications with me, and set off to keep it simple and pure with her. I knew the location would be the

Receiving a gift, in the middle of Marty's garden, in a round-about fashion, via Ricki

and there we were...

Perched, via two folding chairs, in the middle of an intersection round-about filled with flowers (later

a verbal response to Mykaila's solo gifted by Bianca

In Love With Something New

I stood, not knowing what to do, so afraid but not showing it, was I showing it?

So this is what it feels like, I remembered, to be in love with something new.

Just loving every little life force, every moment making me.

This wouldn't happen if not for me, and if not for her,

And she was dancing, dancing her, dancing me, dancing us.

Bending, swooping, hopping, And with every little imperfection of mine,

Every moment I live through, I want to be.

She's known me for ever, she's known me for never,

She's my best friend and I barely know her.

How do we live through when we don't know the beginning or end?

How is this only yours? Only ours? With everyone around us? What makes this special?

I don't know, I don't know. How will this end? When?

Friends, some kind of comrades, we're brothers.

This was us, this was something real. Real from beginning to end.

Was it planned? Everything I thought I believed says no but I think I might have found god.

What if I did? What if it was fate? What if it was written?

Maybe if nothing else in the world was planned, that was.

I've never believed in Meant to Be, but I cannot believe in Random now.

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My journal on the experience can be found here, on the Teen Tix Blog

Kelly's 1-to1 Solo For Pamela

Kelly 1-to1 solo with Pamela
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Pamela Semken Solo

Photo taken by Pamela Semken

Wednesday, March 24^th, 3:45pm, The Tin Table. I arrive and set up the back room of the restaurant by pushing two tables out of the way to make some space to dance in, and setting a place at a long table for

Bianca's 1-to-1 Solo for Mykaila

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Photos by Anne Lawrence.

Chat response to my Solo for Mykaila, March 23rd. 6.15pm

Bianca

hey lady

whoa, right?

8:23pmMykaila

totally.

8:23pmBianca

how do you feel? or, what do you feel?

i feel vulnerable and young

Bianca"s 1-to-1 Solo For Xaviera

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Photos by Anne Lawrence.

Running From the Cops (My solo gifted by Bianca)

You know those days that you just don't feel like crawling out of bed and throwing on your war paint? Well, I was having one of those this morning. Then I remembered, today I was going to receive a solo performance from a complete stranger. With this in mind, I was able to drag my ass the long distance (1.5 blocks) from my

Solo for Xaviera, Tuesday March 23rd at 11.30am. Outside Broadway Market

It happened. I was nervous from coffee and a bad habit I recently picked up again(soon to be quit...again.) I gathered my posse; Bridget, Annie, Soleil and Greg and built my dance floor of cardboard. Sir Mix A Lot,

Kate's 1-to-1 Solo For Lois

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Photos by Anne Lawrence.

Insert Bubble Gum Snap Here

So apparently Lois is a gemini :) Trinkets trinkets galore, salted pigs, measuring spoons, salt, salt, salt, perfume, sloppy spitty bubble gum, bow ties, ribbon, shakkkkkkkkkker, bird whistle. Behold lady bird

The Poem from Ken's Solo

Ken Shear’s solo, or How to get heckled by teenage punks while throwing apples, constructing a poem, and dancing from the “gravity in my chest”

These are the things I learned about Ken that influenced/shaped/inspired this work: he is a writer, and had an unfinished poem he was working on with two lines completed: “Sir Isaac’s apocryphal apple fell,” and “truth

Michael Upchurch solo

I went into this solo with a few pieces in place. I knew that I would be working with Michael's colors, turquoise and magenta, creating a sort of messy puzzle arrangement that I could configure and reconfigure. I

Kelly's 1-to-1 Solo For Anna

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Kelly's 1-to-1 Solo For Anna

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Thoughts after Anna’s Solo, “Taking the Plunge:”

Woke up at 6am, loaded the old Geo Metro with an inflatable raft, a kayak paddle, a battery-powered amp, my computer, and a change of clothes. Drove down to Lake Washington around 6:30am… the sky was

Ricki and Richard's Excellent Adventure

Richard wrote some really exciting answers to my questions, revealing himself to be an adrenaline junkie...here's some of what inspired me in the solo:

"Magazines: I usually start at the back. Skip over the features. Read the product news and

Aaron 1-to-1 solo for Kaiti

Aaron 1-to-1 solo for Kaiti
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Check out all the photos from Aaron and Kaiti's solo, including gift giving and an encounter with a security guard.

Photos by Anne Lawrence.

big heart for Kaiti

Wow, that was intense, here is the breakdown.
10:20-arrive, ask guard (older asian man) if I can plug in clock radio to outdoor outlet, he responds no music in park. I try to explain that I am doing a dance for someone, he says that is not allowed either, explains that