Jun 12
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

An exercise in seeing into the piece. Like the problems I had with too many layers of scrim/chiffon, once there are too many layers of holes the whole (excuse me) piece loses some definition. Here it is hard to see that the cut out shape is repeated in all the layers. I could organizing them so they line up better.

I like the gold edging on the top layer of purple leaf cut-outs.

As for Circus… today was our last class. We had a lesson with Caroline, and she had all kinds of ideas for tossing Alice about. We swung her, she walked from shoulder to shoulder to shoulder, she did a back bend on our backs as we stood on all fours, she stood on our backs as we crawled across the floor. Then she practiced globe – balancing on one of those large balls and making it roll along using a funny little penguin walk because if you stand still you fall over.

Plus, I have homework for the summer

• hang from the chin-up bar, tuck-up
• hang from the chin-up bar, one knee then the other tuck-up
• handstand from hands-on-floor – no momentum
• pullups and dips, jumping pullups (let’s you do more sets) and spy pullups (see Mistress Krista)
• back strengtheners: superman and kick-ups
• more stretching

Caroline assures me that all this will result in smoother trapeze behavior, esp getting up and coming down. The handstand stuff, that is for the partner acro so I don’t have to scramble up my partner’s knees.

Jun 11
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

I did it yesterday, really. It was (erm, almost) done. Except I was so cross-threaded with life and the universe, and so profoundly tired, I went to bed.

This morning wasn’t much better. My favorite yoga class is done for the summer, and last week (when I wasn’t there) was when they said so. I’m still tired and grumpy, and sneezy and dopey and a couple other dwarves too, I’m sure.

BUT – I finished this. Then I went and bought the really big punches, for really big grommets. I couldn’t live without them. Well, I could, but I didn’t want to. I won’t bore you with the justifications I applied to myself.

VERY LARGE HOLES, coming soon. Stay tuned. .