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November brings an accumulation of work to complete or completed. October passed without writing anything here: uncompelled to express anything in writing due to lack of time. As November creeps to an end, I want to make up blogging for both months.

Planning can be sublime yet so orderly to attain progress as I struggle each month to meet my friendly deadlines.

As October and mid-November pass, I share my list with you:

  • PARADIS was reprised for a half-hour version for 2009 Dance in Vancouver;
  • Met Ion Zoo again in an hour of fabulous musicscape as my right shoulder still hurts from dancing the void of improvisation;
  • Writing graaaants? (the grind of justifying my artistic pursuit and how to survive!); and - Re-visited Shadow Machine: dancing with rope, shovel and a new invention of sounds, visuals and more to come. Stay tuned, am sure to talk more on this in the months ahead.
  • Gender, Yin and Yang, MAN and WOMAN, archetype? A daily studio work for Alison Denham and Billy Marchenski in the work ADAMEVE/Man-Woman. Consider intriguing and imposing questions on male or female movements. When do we recognize it, bodily relation and reaction? Can movements alone liberate the body from gender?
  • Back in October on a grey Sunday afternoon stumbling together with Paraskevas was a lecture at Vancity Cinema by Arlene Goldbard brightly reminding her attendees that ART IS A SECRET OF SURVIVAL.
  • Levy was born, a new nephew from my youngest brother.

Mid-November's heavy winds blowing in the air, Heavy rain falls fearlessly, Leaves on trees disappear and trees are naked again. Less light and more candles at home. I drink more hot teas and eat more soupy meals. My furnace is on and wool socks on my feet.

I encounter and contemplate on WABI-SABI, Meandering in the essence of transience, Imperfect, Impermanence and Incomplete. BEAUTY.