Gratitude

I'm still processing Portraiture and Perception. Admittedly, I still have a ton of thank you cards to send. I also have a 20-25 page paper to write regarding the installation/production. All the while, I'm teaching two classes. One class is Intro to Composition for the Freshmen dance majors. I love this class and I love my students. They give me so much inspiration. Here's a video one of the students shared in response to an assignment about the "progression of an idea."
Enjoy!

Week One of Winter 2012 Quarter Done!

So far, I'm loving this quarter. I'm taking two Contemporary Dance Technique classes (one by Abby Zbikowski and one by Meghan Durham Wall - two excellent teachers) and teaching two classes - Beginning Contemporary and Jazz 2.  I love teaching and I love taking classes again.

For the first couple of weeks of Jazz, I am reviewing Jazz from the 20's and 30's. This Monday, we'll watch one of my favorite videos from that era:

Gearing up

I actually took a day off at Christmas, and even the following day due to a food hangover. By yesterday, I was back to work. I prepped for my Jazz 2 class by posting my syllabus, topical outline and supporting material. All twenty-one students are in my roll book and aside from running through the combination for the first day, I'm ready to go! Still working on my Modern 1 class, but I hope to have that wrapped up by Friday at the latest. It makes me feel so much better when the ground work is done.

I also started laying down some designs in Dreamweaver for the re-design of rashanaworks.com. Surprisingly, I'm happy to be back at it. Designing merrygogo.com was enjoyable too, and I learned A LOT, but it takes so much time that I was kind of putting off my own website till I could get past the idea of how much brain space it takes. I'm also happy to be working with Erik Abbott-Main. We started talking a re-design two years ago and now I'm able to start working with his illustrations. Our focus with the new rashanaworks is to strike a balance between nature and technology, rural-ness and urban-ness, and revealing process as important as product. To the left is one of Erik's designs.