Two weeks closer

The roommate left yesterday - her mom lives in Chicago and she goes to visit twice a year - she'll be gone for the next 6 weeks and won't return to Ekaterinburg until I've already left.  The anxiety she felt before leaving reminded me of the anxiety I always feel before leaving one place and going to another - something I suppose I should simply get used to, since traveling seems to be in my future...probably even more so than it is in my present!

The premiere of my new work "Experiments in Being Tall" is next Friday - I'm performing alongside a dancer/guest artist from Provincial Dances and two of my students.  A quartet of contemporary choreography en pointe...hopefully all goes well :)  The other work I've got in the show is a solo "Is all that a(n)na sees" which I premiered in July at the Fringe Club in HK...another student will be performing that work, and she already looks quite lovely, really great, actually, in it.

July 21st I head OUT of Ekaterinburg for St. Petersburg, making my way up to Murmansk (on the Barent's Sea/Arctic Ocean; largest city north of the Arctic Circle; home of Russia's Northern Fleet).  I'll be there only for a short while before turning south going to Moscow to fly to London, where I'll stay for a week with a dear friend from university.  Then back to California...taking a workshop in San Francisco in July, driving across the country and hanging out in Nova Scotia in August, and eventually, beginning of September, coming back to SF to 'set up shop'.

I'm feeling less nervous about the transition from "Russian life" to "American life"...perhaps because work in Russia for the 08/09 season is already starting to appear...but I think also because I'm starting to more completely understand the idea of possibility for me specifically, and that having so many options IS overwhelming - but also incredibly fortunate and wonderful...I can do what I want, basically...and choosing one of the many 'variants' will not, I'm sure now, result in a bad choice...only redirect the path of things.

I'm looking forward to starting the next adventure, but also trying to be present and stay focused for my last 'living' week in Ekaterinburg (by that I mean - the last week that I live here).

I think the next blog should be about something else...apples maybe.