The joke of this letter is my friend replied with 'say hi' requests... a big sloppy kiss for brimmer - willingly executed, and appreciated (altho he admit it was more fun coming from me than 'twould have been from my friend.. what can i say, the both of us are cute, but i'm cuter ;) a bit of smack-talk to martin (who has quickly become my other favorite teacher-crush... i have to separate my favorite teachers from my favorite teacher crushes from my favorite awe-inspiring instructors because really i am in love with the entire staff, and that includes the interns - the fact of it is i am writing this entry a food week after i am dating it because i'm trying to keep the separation of events to avoid the longest blog entry ever) and hugs to my TC mike and his wife...
day five just passed - or 5 weeks later, in safd workshop years... i have little grasp of time these days (altho i understand space now in an entirely new and heretofore unthinkable manner...) so much information has been thrown at me (and absorbed!) the last few days i'm simultaneously reeling and giddy - and have retained much of it!
this is seriously, the most amazing experience i've ever had in my entire creative life - anyhow - i promised gossip... this is as close as it gets for now...and really at the end of this very long day/week/life... this is incredible - and.. there are no true words at hand to 'sAy' but i know you must understand :D
- um... broadsword is so ridiculously kickass that i can't contain myself!
- R&D and our 1/2 course in small sword is hurting my brain (no experience other than that 8 move bit i had in the tavern scene in A.P - and half of that fight was really unarmed) but am getting it and each revelation is a crazy exciting win... got the r&d room to myself with one partner for the first hour of our first rehearsal night tonight and drilled my ass off... am getting it - and it's kinda wheeee...
- K. Jenny is not only an awesome and really Real person, but her approach to unarmed is revolutionary and so damn Smart! she's changed my whole perception of theatre completely - and i;m sorta in awe of her.... despite the fact that's she's completely approachable... and has even helped me when peeking in on other classes...
- Richard is just iconic and everyone is in awe of him - all the students have an admitted teacher-crush on him - male and female with no concerns about sexual orientation... it's the combo of skill and confidence and accent (damn we americans are suckers) but Martin (last name..last name...) is assisting and also super awesome - and helps immensely with reinterpreting something that's off when i'm not getting it (and i got to - and succeeded at - cracking a whip in his master class!)
- Brimmer... ha! I adore him (between you and me) - he Totally called me out for being in patriot (and it was so cool he remembered me - but apparently i'm a 'dead ringer' for an old friend of his - go fig :P) and he's so canny.. we have (in my track we have broadsword last- they're shuffling us every few days but i've been on the same schedule so far) first few days spent discussing concepts and asking what we've already learned (and all of us striving to impress then reMember what we learned and then didn't bother to re-teach us anything but moved forward... Broadsword is the only class we have any of the 'official choreography' for - altho there's a sound looking rumor going on about a sequence in r&d we've been working on...
- i just realized what a dork i am and how little you probably care about these little details... i'm this high on the entire experience and apologize for the freaked-out-excited-rambling :P)
- the general consensus of brimmer can be summed up thusly: his name was mentioned - one of my classmates called out the now colloquial 'he's a teddy bear' to which i reposted 'that will eat you' which was met by a general ripple of amused agreement - but i luv'im and he's awesome...
- our first night we had a gathering and there is picture and video evidence of all the instructors playing guitar hero (well - not richard or brimmer - but Jenny played - and 'm pretty sure mike did too - and a number of the other assistants, etc... kinda fun (richard and brimmer held court - and you couldn't help but be drawn in..) then i got caught looking at the bus map (longer story - basically i didnt' have enough time to save up for housing too so found a 'relatively close' sublet) and mike (who remembers you - it came up in the car..) basically insisted on driving me home instead... i also have a definite teacher-crush on him.. not just for the day one kindness... but he's a great teacher - and we get knife on our 'odd hour'NaHalf' for the second half - which i am super-psyched for!
which i then (because i read the repost after a bad class when i'm having an 'i suck and the world hates me moment) misinterpret as his clever way of saying dude was married since i used the word crush (in however a facetious manner as it had been intended) but a.) i knew that and b.) teacher crushes aren't sexual or romantic in nature but born out of sheer appreciation of skill and personality... 'I' know this and my class mates know this (it's the floating term for 'favorite' this summer) but i go weird and assume that my friend doesn't know this and parry the statement in my response - to which the reply was 'i have no idea what you're talking about...
i'd be Way more embarrassed if i hadn't been busy making a fool of myself in class all week :P
1 comment:
GAH! Richard is still working with Martin?
COOL!
Oh, Cat, we are going to have to have a huge sit-down where you just tell me (and I'm guessing Michael and a bunch of us other fight-geeks) EVERYTHING!!!
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