Made it! Wednesday morning I left home and moved down to Durham, NC for the summer to work as a production intern for the American Dance Festival. I'm living with two people I worked with last year in a beautiful warehouse-turned-apartment complex downtown.
So far our work has been picking up, delivering, laying, screwing down, and laying marley on the dance floors for the rooms where classes will take place starting next week. We've had a load of free time since we only had 3 floors to do this weekend that many of us spent laying out at Duke's central campus pool and getting to know each other. We've done a lot of baking, bread-making, and cooking here in our apartment. We even met our neighbors!
Tomorrow the REAL work begins. The new faces will get the quick and dirty electrics lesson in one of the theatres, while the rest of us will be put straight to work. We have two shows opening our first weekend, which doesn't usually happen, so we'll all be working 14-hour days straight away. Since this is the ADF director's last year (he's retiring) there's a special gala performance containing a few of his favorite companies on June 9th at DPAC in downtown Durham (Scottish Dance Theatre, Hubbard Street, Mark Dendy, Martha Clarke, and the African American Dance Ensemble). Reynolds Theatre on Duke's west campus opens with Rosas, a Belgian company, Friday thru Sunday. (*See my older post Massive American Dance Festival 2011 preview! to get info on this company and check out some vids!*)
If you're within a reasonable radius of Durham, you must make it up to see a show or several. If you're a little farther out, I strongly encourage you to make a weekend trip to see one of your favorite dance companies. I'll keep this updated as the summer progresses (hopefully weekly) and look forward to all the new experiences this summer has in store. :)
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