Category: The Actor’s Journey
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PRIDE
When we are around people who embody pride; pride for the space they live in, pride about their areas of interest, proud of the artist process and their creations we feel a sense of expanding welcoming space.
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Decentralization
We must decenter ourselves because there are cultural worlds unchartered, peoples unexplored, selves we do not know, and art unexamined. There is a part deep within which cries out to open yourself and look and truly see and be seen. be seen in the self examination and be seen in the listening to the other.
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Deportation
I wanted to go on vacation to reset, to disturb my routine, to remind myself of the multiplicities of possibility, to disconnect, to disassociate from what I know. To stop, to pause, cease from the grind, be away from my phone. I got all the benefits of everything listed above but not in the way…
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I often notice my dampened curiosity by my relative familiarly. How can place play a role in making us more open and cultivate curiosity.
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We find ourselves at a threshold between one year and the next or one season to the next. With the approaching spring its a time of renewal, new life, growth, and turning our attention from the inward winter months to the outward connection around us. We see our society changing, our political climate changing, our…
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Blindness
I am blind to the future. I am blind to what it hold. I am blind. My next steps are shaky, my mind fluctuating with anxiety and hopeless joyful abandon. One moment fully present, the next wrestling with the great unknown. The only console is find a way to create; to have some control or…
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An Extraordinary Human: Michael Louden
We met in at a coffee shop after a callback in Seattle. He asked about the coffee I was having and conversations progressed about theater. And then, in our first interaction he asked if my last name was Menzies. And I thought, “this random person in this coffee shop knows me, how in the world…
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While I was in Busy Making Plans
The sun had just set when I arrived at Roxy’s, a cozy little campsite in the heart of Slab City. The Steward of Salvation Mountain had recommended it to me, and I was eager to see what all the fuss was about. As I approached the hearth in the front of the camp, I saw…
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Grow Up
These hurdles and greater and greater leaps become of the utmost importance! They keep me young again, they keep me growing, and they stop me from “growing up.”
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Reinventing My Perception
How should one walk? What is the appropriate period of time to make eye contact with someone on the streets of Seattle? What body posture lets people know that I know what I am doing? What vocal qualities come off as confident? What are mannerism which are prescribed to be masculine? What clothing suggests that…
Duncan Clark Menzies 