Define Gravity

Define Gravity, Saint Mary's College Dance Company's spring show, opens tonight! It is a beautiful show, per usual, and I am having a blast working on it. Though I am missing Joel, Ginny, Scott, Sam, and Zoe at DAE terribly, I am very lucky I was able to take a week off and SM this dance show. And I will be rejoining them on Sunday.

The featured piece in the dance show is called Fast Brass, an incredibly difficult and stunning work choreographed by renowned choreographer Janice Garrett. The 5 dancers who perform this are so talented that this piece was selected to go to the nationals for the American College Theater Festival in Washington, DC--a first for our department! Fast Brass is not only challenging choreographically, it is also challenging technically. The cues must be EXACT and called in very precise places. That and the fact that the music is very frantic makes calling this piece extremely stressfully but ultimately one of the most rewarding of my stage management career. Every night my nerves start battling each other and once its over, I realized how much this piece is a testament to the skills I have gained over the past 2 years. This piece is simply amazing.

Shannon's to do list:

Communication and Social Understanding Presentation

Communication and Social Understanding Final Paper

Bay Area Theater Final Interview Project

Bay Area Theater Reflection on GIRLFRIEND at Berkeley Rep

Finite Mathematics Final

Stage Management Final

Open Define Gravity

Close Define Gravity

Tech LEAP dance concert

SM LEAP dance concert

SM the rest of Same Time Next Year

Attend graduation

Pack??????????