April Fool's Year

If your limbs were eels, sketch in response to working with curving forms at the Michael Chekhov School, Hudson, NY. By ngraham

"The unknown is like clay. You can make different things out of it." I've been turning this thought over for a couple of weeks now. It was spoken by Sayda Trujillo in a workshop on clowning she was teaching with Marjolein Baars for the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA). Adopting the clown perspective, I make everything around me into a thingamabob. The unknown becomes my playmate and my partner instead of a big scary monster.

I guess everyone is feeling forward into the unknown in their own way, but from what I've heard, a lot of us have had the experience of "hitting a wall" and finding that we couldn't go on, even if changing things up means risk. So in honor of spontaneity, taking the leap, improvisation, the unexpected, the unknown, Happy Fool's Year. I'll be sharing my experiences and wish you courage.

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