Berlin was wonderful! A very interesting city: all the energy/creativity of NYC but with a more relaxed, less competitive attitude. It seems like nobody cares what you look like, or where you are from. There were a lot of different professional classes to take, and performances to see. Everyone said that it was unfortuneate that I chose to visit when most people were on holiday, but I found more than enough to keep me busy for the week. It makes me wonder what it...

Letter from Berlin - Brief Article Dance Magazine, Dec, 1999 by Brenda Dixon Gottschild "When you talk about Germany, it's always necessary to know that we are a federal country, and development in Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, or Berlin is, in itself, different," says Nele Hertling, who has been director of Berlin's Hebbel Theater since 1988. "It's not easy to speak about `German' dance. It is `Berlin' [dance], similar in Munich, very different in Hamburg and i...

I had the craziest weekend.... I went with Aura to billifeld germany to participate in the festival there, which is getting to be pretty normal... But this time it seemed like the gods were against us. First our plane was delayed, we almost missed our connection in prague and all of our bags were left behind. The airline didn't know where they were, or how long it would take to get them to us. Of course we were staying two hours away from the airport, and ...

Some relevant words from Miguel Gutierrez on the subject of touring: "i feel incredibly lucky to have had these experiences. touring makes you a better dancer, plain and simple. putting yourself in front of an audience that is not full of your best friends, your best friend's unwitting co-workers, ex-es, lovers, soon to be lovers, old dance school friends, relatives, and well, the other local dancers who are there to appreciate or secretly compare or disdain...

We are going to Dortmund today and will be there through saturday. I hope that Berute will give us a little break during these extra days, but I doubt it. She has taken to making major changes to the work an hour before we perform, and then giving us corrections as we put on our makeup. Yesterday she rechoreographed an entire section of the first piece, and we didn't even have time to do it once before we went on stage. Crazy!!! It has been a bit rough on me. V...