me kissing Denise

This is Denise. She's yet another cast member of Framing Bodies: LOVE ME. I'm going to be lazy and tell you to find all the associated links in the last post.

But about Denise. You can probably tell by her expression that she carries with her a certain joie de vivre. She's not just acting here.

I was also able to trick her into participating in a work-in-progress performance installation last fall. We moved together, improvising, inside a box taped off on the floor. There were tiny mirrors, but not enough. Hence the work-in-progress status. I have a DVD of it and I think we look rather good together. We need to find a place to do this installation again, with more mirrors and a couple of other tweaks. It seems Denise is up for again being tricked into my hair-brained performance schemes. I like that in a person. I like that a whole lot.

me kissing Nichelle

This evening, the Archway Gallery hosted another showing of Framing Bodies: LOVE ME , the dance film from Frame Dance Productions. I was in it and I think I've already kissed half the cast.

Nichelle Strzepek is another cast member from the film, but she holds a special spot in the film. She was something like 20 months pregnant when we shot the thing. It was in July, in Houston, and we were all so very hot. How in the world she did it, I just don't know.

But obviously, she lived to tell the tale and as you can tell from the photo, she is none the worse for wear.

Nichelle holds another distinction in the Houston dance community. She is one of the most active and informative dance bloggers in town and probably a good distance out of town, too. Her Dance Advantage site is chock full of information about dance, especially in regards to dance education. Have a question about selecting a dance studio for class, for yourself or for your child, about what to expect from a dance curriculum and just about anything else dance ed related? If Nichelle doesn't have an answer, she probably knows who does.

But she probably has the answer. Go explore her site. You'll be surprised by what you didn't know but will be glad to learn.

me kissing John

The second former co-worker at the MFAH is John W. George. I don't know what the W stands for. And really, is it any of our business?

But that's beside the point. John was one of the more experienced people I worked with, always great for answering questions and solving problems. And ask him about antique and thrift stores. I know next to nothing about them myself, but if I ever need to know something about them, John will be the first person I ask.

I'm so glad the museum is not far from where I now work and easy to get to. Those three months there were fun times with good people. Apparently it was good enough for them that they let me come back and kiss them.

me kissing Michele

I had to be somewhere at 7:00 this evening, and the MFAH was in between work and that somewhere.

So I stopped by the museum to see my buddies there. I worked there as a temp last spring and I always enjoy dropping in and saying "howdy."

And I got to kiss a couple of them. Here is Michele, acting all surprised and whatever. Yeah, she's super-cute.

me kissing Shanon

Shanon Adams is, I admit, the dancer I know least well of the group I kissed tonight. I've seen her dance a few times, of course. She's a member of Suchu Dance and, yeah, she was in a dance film tonight. She danced with Alex in Ashley's Drain.

See how all these kissees are connected?


But she is one of the few people who has been following this blog and asked me to kiss her. So what are you gonna do?

I'm here to spread a little sweetness wherever I can.

me kissing Rosie

It seems a lot of my dancer world revolves around Frame Dance, doesn't it?

Well, Rosie Trump isn't in the Frame Dance company, but she was, like me, a guest in Framing Bodies: LOVE ME. Unlike me, she's an actual dancer and teaches at Rice University and makes live performances and dance film and . . . well, you know, everything dance. AND, not only did her film, If she needs a third eye she grows it, get screened at the JCC this evening, it was also screened in a dance film festival today in Amsterdam.

Dang, I'm kissing all the cool kids tonight.

me kissing Kristen

Kristen Frankiewicz is another Frame Dancer, so like Alex, she gets her fair share of screen time. Like Alex, she's in rehearsal for Frame's next show, coming in May (and their monthly showings as they make progress on the piece.

But that's not all. For another two weeks, she can be seen on Saturday afternoons at DiverseWorks here in Houston, preforming in the multimedia installation, A Crack in Everything (created by dance company zoe - juniper).

Her name pops up here and there, including in Dance Magazine. And yeah, she still let me kiss her, because she's cool like that.