Link: "Of Mice and Men" at Bag&Baggage
I just wrapped up opening weekend for a production of Of Mice and Men with Bag&Baggage that I’m really pretty proud of. We were reviewed in The Oregonian today, and while I have a love/hate (okay, skewed towards hate) relationship with reviews and generally try to ignore them, I have to admit that it’s a great feeling to have somebody connect to and resonate with your work! So here (and if you click the link above), for your reading pleasure, is our review, very thoughtfully written by Richard Wattenberg. (Thanks, Richard!) And if you’re in the Portland area, please consider coming out to Hillsboro and experiencing this really beautiful piece of theatre. Like I said, I’m really proud of it, and the entire cast and crew is fantastic! You can get your tickets here…
Last weekend I closed “Dangerous Liaisons” at Bag&Baggage. While the ends of runs are always bittersweet for me, and I’m still contemplating the fact that I won’t be performing tonight, I realized this more importantly meant that it was time to update my web site. So I did! Here are some new photos from the show (by the amazing Casey), for those of you who weren’t able to see it. I’ll be working on stage with Bag&Baggage again in the fall, so stay tuned for details…
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During my Fitzmaurice Voicework® training this past January, my friend and colleague Elissa had this idea about creating song as an extension of the tremor work that we do in Fitzmaurice. In a session that she taught, Elissa encouraged us to tremor while allowing areas of our bodies to resonate with sound, and to begin to allow melodies to emerge, creating “folksongs of the body”.
I’ve played around with this idea quite a bit in the past couple of months, and finally decided to record one of these little melodies - mostly so that I could also record harmonies, and hear it (in real life) close to the way it sounds with all the voices in my head. So here’s what I’ve got. It’s a little rough around the edges, but it’s also not meant to be polished and perfect. Let me know what you think. And enjoy!
Oh, and if you have no idea what I’m talking about when I say “tremor”, you should read this! It’s pretty amazing work…
20 playsThe Music of Trees
“You have to admit there’s at least a little resemblance between the ring-lined cross-section of a tree and an LP. So why shouldn’t a tree’s rings elicit beautiful music the way a record’s can?” (from the article on CNET)
…thanks for sending this to me, Dad!
Redesigned!
That’s right, everyone, blog.cassiegreer.com is now fully integrated with the rest of cassiegreer.com! (see above …thank you again, Danny.) Along with my newly-acquired visual continuity, I pledge to post things more frequently than once a month. So: read, share, comment, enjoy, and please hold me to the aforementioned pledge.
Link: On Breathing (from a Psychology perspective)
I love points of intersection between the kind of work I do and the work of people in vastly different fields. A really interesting read for actors and scientists alike…
Link: Theatre Makes Our Lives Better
Sometimes I feel like my career - my entire field for that matter - is pretty futile, especially when I think about how many people in our world live in poverty and hunger and political oppression. And then I read things like this…
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This is the kind of thing that energizes and inspires me.
Cello on Hawthorne Blvd. and 37th Ave. in Portland, Ore.
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