my battery is pure love

Like a great number of people I've been able to interview in the last year, Kate Alton has been a hero, an inspiration, a beautiful puzzle of an artist. She's about to open her first show in a few years in which she is dancing. If you haven't witnessed Kate performing, go now. If you have...well you know what I'm talking about then. Kate managed to answer a few questions I sent her way in the flurry of both our worlds -- tours ending, homecoming, children, rehearsals, and the million other occupations that demand our time. I am so grateful Kate's usual candidness and eloquence. Without further ado....Kate, unedited. This interview. LUCY: What motivated you to make this production happen? KATE: Honestly it was the unending desire that dancers constantly have, somehow to keep on dancing. My life with two kids is very full. I feel lucky to have had so much time to dance before they came into my world. But I also long to keep that dancing part of myself al...

flying over Canada, headed home I posed the question "what did you learn on the EUNOIA tour?" to all the collaborators involved in the mounting of this work for touring, thinking the answers would offer amazing insight into the value of getting a chance to revisit a work, tour it....something dance and theatre, especially the indie or small-scale companies, don't get to do very often. My original thought was about the deepening of artistry, the new audiences in new landscapes that take in and give back from fresh perspectives.  I did not anticipate the full spectrum of beauty that would come in their responses.....Read them all, you won't be sorry. (Some have not replied yet and will be added in a later post.) Thanks team for your intelligent, profound thoughts, as if I could expect any less. getting notes in rehearsal in Halifax Claudia Moore (performer, freest of spirits, continual source of inspiration, great sharer of chips and wine): It comes ...