The Bogliasco Foundation in Italy has generously offered me a one month fellowship during time which I will be making new dance work.  Pam will join me for the last two weeks.  We are collaborating on still and moving images that will become part of the film that opens my new dance The Traveler.  I will also be diving into Beast, gorgeously costumed by my long time collaborator, Christine Joly de Lotbinnere.

Preparations are daunting.  How many books, how much stuff?  Send ahead, carry with me?  How warm?  How cool?  Actually, I know that it is mostly in the 50’s there now which seems balmy by comparison.  No swimming, but definitely some beach walking.

I am excited and honored.  I will be sharing and posting from Bogliasco and surrounds both about the place and my process and what it feels like to dive into new work in this sheltered, supported way.

I will miss my ponies, dogs and cats, and they will miss me, especially Mamacita, the feral mommy of Precious and Obadiah, who we feed and house outside, and who, after four skittish years, has decided that being petted is the bomb!  If my experience of travels all over the world from Nepal to Barbados is any indication, the kitties will find me. . .