me kissing you: me kissing Ashley

Friday, January 20, 2012

me kissing Ashley

So Frame Dance Productions is having a series of what I guess you could say are "showings." They're working on their next full production and on the way, they're giving these complete-for-now showings of the work, as it progresses toward their May show. Tonight was one of them.

It may be noticeable that I'm kissing a lot of dancers. Well, I know a lot of dancers.Ashley Horn is dancing with Frame Dance and she actually asked me what she needed to do to get kissed. I just smiled and pulled my camera out of my pocket. I have to admit, I'm still not very gregarious about asking people if I can kiss them, so I'm more than a little delighted to be asked.

Click on her name above and explore her YouTube channel. She makes dance-for-film as well as dancing on stage. Explore her work. I especially love the whimsy she expresses in her film work.

But wait, there's more. This is only the first of three kisses I gave tonight . . .

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about this blog . . .

So 2011 saw me dealing with a bad 2010 by posting a picture of myself, taken first thing every morning, as some kind of conceptual art project. You can see all 365 blurry, bleary photos here.

As it was, at it's core, a response to loneliness, I knew it was not something I could or should sustain beyond the one year boundary I initially set for it. But I sort of liked this photo blogging thing . . .

So I decided the next logical step was to reach out to other people. Not just reach out, but cross some of my own comfort zones and kiss them. Not on the mouth, not in a romantic or sexual way, just a kiss on the cheek.

So, this year, I plan on kissing as many people as I can. I won't even try to kiss someone everyday, but in various situations, I may just ask someone, "hey, can I kiss you and photographically document the event?" If they say no, no worries, I'll move on. If they say yes, I'll say, "I have this tiny release form granting me permission." (It is a tiny release form, postcard size.)

It's a small way to get me out of a rut I'm in and also to spread a little love. In the ancient Christian church, there was the custom of the "kiss of peace" (which survives in liturgical churches today as "passing the peace," usually signified by a handshake). I think of this exercise as something of passing the peace, too, of offering a kiss of peace to whoever will let me do it. And document it.

Wait---there's more! You can be kissed, too! If you're in the Houston area and would like to be kissed by me, let me know. Or if you're coming to Houston. Or even if you're not in Houston or coming to Houston, but want to be on a list of potential kissees, in the event that I might be traveling to where you are (I get up Austin a few times a year, I hope to get to Chicago this year, etc.), let me know that, too. you never know where I might pop up. Email me at neilellisorts (at) yahoo dot com.