There are many things I am thinking about these days. The CDA (Canadian Dance Assembly) conference in Ottawa, the FTA (Festival TransAmeriques) in Montreal and the CDF (Canada Dance Festival) in Ottawa. Two weeks of seeing over 25 shows, conversing with colleagues from across Canada and a few places beyond our borders, engaging with people who may or may not buy our work. Exhausting late days that begin early in the morning. I love it. Ours is a large country that rarely allows our small communities to meet face to face, so that you can touch the artist, see their body language, hear the timbre of their voices . All the Web 2.0 in the world pales in comparison to the flesh to flesh encounters. 

I think community is a word that needs attention. Blurry ideas about what it is.

Institutions are feared because they appear to grab the lion's share of resources and are blind to the core workers in the field. How can we build new models that simultaneous support the big and small ideas through the filter of a lead-artist's eye?

Post-mortems are good. They remind us of the reasons why and re-kindle language lost since the doing of the thing they remind us of. They re-generate energy.

Holidays are also good and I am about to embark on one. If the spirit moves me (which Vancouver has a tendency of doing) then more to come.