Dissecting Spoken Word

I've transcribed and dissected Erlichman's Daddy's Parking Lot Sermon. Lessons to take away: carefully plan the points at which you breathe. Use breaths like line breaks. Cascading line lengths can effectively separate and demarcate thoughts. One method: as a thought progresses, lines grow shorter and punchier. End with a short line, jump to a long one, new (related) thought.

A New Hope

It looks like there's a chance I may make it in to Dance 420: Dance Aesthetics. Also, Bronwyn reccommended an embodied movement course through the Academy of Burlesque, and it looks like I'll be able to take a couple sessions of that in the future.

On the poetry front, I went searching yesterday for spoken word artists to draw inspiration from. Most are really heavily into the street aesthetic of spoken word, which isn't so much what I'm aiming for, but one poet really stood out - Shira Erlichman. What a great performance - especially how she sashays between prosaic and poetic language, and conversational and representational gesture.

Credit quandries

It's looking like I won't be able to audit a dance class this quarter without dropping something I'm already taking... maybe I'll shirk 400 off until next quarter?

Also to be determined: can I audit a class dealing with dance theory without prereqs? Do they start that at the ground level? I should have gotten into this sooner.