One year ago today Amy, Lindsay, Tawnya, and I (along with the help of a zillion volunteers and friends and family we talked into helping) produced our first show as Atelotorque. It was called Transmission, and was a community show in which our local sphere of aerial artists told their personal stories of relating to …
Maybe you haven’t been sitting around wondering, Gee, I wonder what’s going on with Atelotorque? Listen, though, kind of a LOT has been going on with us, so possibly you should be. Tawnya has been gently prodding me to write up the details of our journey over the last year* and I keep saying, Yeah… …
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A funny thing about deciding to make a thing with more than just you, whether it’s art or business or a little of both, is you don’t really think about how you need to gather people who are like-minded in vision, but also approach tasks from a different perspective than you. You think about who …
When we last left our Atelotorque friends they were gearing up for a crazy week of meetings with the review panel for the Neighborhood Arts Grant and the Laveen Community Council, and then a trip across country to the New England Center for Circus Arts. Things got… intense. Here’s how that went: The review panel …
One of the reasons we wanted to pull the trigger on telling our story now is that we have a Big Week on the calendar and want to be able to update you as it all goes down. (If you haven’t read our intro post or the catch up to where we are now yet, …
From here on out I’m going to update you on progress as things happen, but I need to catch you up to current first. I think the relevant questions are: How did this start? and What have we done so far? Well, it all started from the sort of conversations friends with common interests have …
I’ve been struggling with how and where to start this story. The big problem is that it’s unfinished. At this point, it could be a tale of an epic struggle of overcoming adversity to succeed in a glorious fashion. It could also be the story of how inspiration and hard work are sometimes no match …
