October 1st 2004

WHO DO VOODOO?

Pardon ME?

A Quick Recap of the Week
And Other Fun Things.

Ran into an old friend of mine this week. I was in the parking lot of the New College when who do you know walked up and said my name??? Teish! I hadn't seen her since a lecture at the Paetheon I once attened at least 10 yrs back. And seeing her now SHURE put a Big Smile on my face!

Long time ago.. from the age of 12-17.. I danced with her in an African Traditional Troupe. (We did the dances from South Africa, Ghana, West Africa, Cuba and Brazil.) Also African American Dance (Jazz, Modern and Dance Theater we made up the stories to)... She is a former Katherine Dunham Dancer! She just happened to be the director of a dance studio where I took classes in Oakland. (I also took her dance class.. that I will remember.)

Guess I should go into the detail regarding the part where there was alot of Smoke and Vegetarianism. God Saved Me... It was Because I loved to dance and was particular about what I put into my body. Being an athlete you couldn't do drugs n such. I reminse about the over abundance of Ultra FINE Men Everywhere one looked... oh yeahhhh.. ohhh yeahhhh... Oh well that was a LONG TIME AGO. That's another story in itself. ME just beginning puberty and looking like I was 24.. (The song about being a "D" Cup is True.. except back then I was a "C" Cup! Those boys/young men constantly questioned.. HOW OLD ARE YOU??? They would rushed me home before Midnight... Musta been some pumpkin thing. Anyways.. I was always the youngest among the dancers for a LONG Time. Would you believe that has all changed in the past year's, since I am now the OLDEST in the MA Program.

Getting back to my friend...

Just seeing her gave me a quick flashback. I could see it clearly the day I ran into her on the street. (She's just a friend not my old roomate.) I read her Tarot Cards in my Dorm Room. It was during my Freshman Year in College at Art College. We talked half the night and interpreted each other's dreams the next morning... as I can recall.. what I told her is still coming true.. hehehe. You can imagine it brought back some really fond memories... Those were exciting times never a dull moment wherever you turned.

To make a long story short..

She's a famous Voodoun Priestess of Oshun

The goddess of love also known to many as Venus. ANY How... for those of you still spooked out by this sort of thing.. (The Media can be so insulting of indigenous peoples religions, especially when they don't know anything about them. Anyway.. there is ONE God.. and they believe the same.. ok it's the SAME God.. yes.. and Olodumare is his name.)

First, let me tell you that Voudoun is an ancient religion of Africa/South America/Cuba and the America's. Very closely related to the Catholic Faith (I was named after my Aunt who was a Nun!).. of which I am... Ok ok... I'm a Buddhist Priest too.. As Teish and I both confessed.. We just add on to what we naturally are. But most people just don't get it.

Funny thing is in my script writing class, I was writing a play about a Creole Saloon owner. Interesting NOTE that I started writing this play before I saw her on Sunday.

I'd like to continue talking about Teish but you can look her up on the net if your interested in that sort of thing. She's quite a facinating lady.. lecturer and from what I see.. she has numerous books available and has been on a wide variety of television shows including OPRAH!

I've been quite busy with my school work this week.. here is a quick recap.

Monday: Ballet at 10am, fitness center til 1:30pm. I ran, worked out with weights and did the machines.. you know the kind.

Tuesday: 9am Rehersal with my composition choreography group. I'm making up a dance that 3 people are in.
11am Intensive Modern Dance.
1pm Workout in fitness center til 12:45pm

2pm AVID Digital Editing Class.. then reading homework on the bus.. grocery shopping... then wrote a few songs for my vocal class.. read til 4am.

Wednesday: Rehearsal at the New College 12:30pm... 2pm went to the computer lab wrote weekly schedule as a requirement for my Wed. nite class. i.e. meditation, exercise and workout schedule.

5pm class is kinda like a combination Yoga and Theatre Movement with Dance and Tai Chi.

7pm Thesis Writing Class.. this class just meet's once a month. Usually on Wed. nite at this time we have a Thesis Performance Workshop of sort. Experimental Performance for the entire class of current work in progress.

Thursday: 9am Performance of my choreography for the composition class at City College. Everyone seemed to love it. I even got compliments from the Hip Hoppers.. rofl

11am Int. Modern Dance.. although we had a Substitute for the class.. (one of my instructors students) she taught the Horton Technique.. it's very good if your young.. so I sat this class out cause my body TOTALY Rejected doing any of that back breaking, thigh crenching whiplash crap.

1pm Workout in the fitness center... machines and weights.. got a compliment from the instructor. She asked me IF I noticed a difference in my body.. Really, I can't Tell! But apparently SHE Noticed! Yippieeeee... Told her.. I got a few looks from Guys the other day.. which I hadn't gotten in quite some time. I left the workout room at 2:15pm.
2pm AVID Class.. got there at 2:30pm we are working on a PSA (public service announcement) for the school television station to be aired locally I THINK? Anyway... I have to share the computer with this hip hopper kid and had to wait til 3:30pm to get my turn on the puter. So I just checked in with the instructor... Remember I was in her show KNOCKERS in the Summer???
Then I went to the computer lab and wrote my PSA Outline, returned to class around 4pm, stayed at the school until 9:30pm to edit the sound and video footage for the PSA. Came home ate some pasta with turkey and broccoli. For desert I had honey dew melon. Yum YUM!

Today is Friday.. We have rehearsal at 3:30pm, one of the girls (Fern, the one with the kid.) house to work on the Meisner Acting Technique then we work on the Voice Technique at 5pm then we're gonna have a pot luck at 7pm... shoot I gotta run home right after that and read 2 chapters in two different books, choreograph a dance for Saturday and do a little researh on the web before Sunday!
I already wrote a 10 page script for a play, researched a performing company for presentation, read 4 chapers in the Meisner Technique, research for my Thesis Project, Wrote 2 Songs and Lyrics, logged an occational diary and walked my dog.

OK That was My Week..
HOW Was Yours???

Gotta Go SLEEP!

Hugz n Lub, Bebe da FairyGodMum