Hardika Singh, poet (Above)
Tim Pike (Above)
Lauren Davis (Above)
Sun Boats (Above)
Sam Debatin of Sun Boats (Above)
Zack Shafer of Sun Boats (Above)
Harper Reese of Sun Boats (Above)
Dallas Craft (Above)
Dallas Craft (Above)
Joshua Corbett (Above)
David Bruce (Above)
Bruce Dalzell (Above)
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Sam Debatin and Harper Reese of Sun Boats are also members of Velvet Green.
Velvet Green Brings “Junk Funk” Music to Athens (Backdrop Magazine)
Velvet Green, a local band formed in 2018, is composed of six members: drummer Shea Benezra, guitarists Sam Debatin and Harper Reese, keyboardist Liam McSteen, bassist Mitchell Spring and vocalist Cora Fitch. All members, except for New York native Benezra, met each other while attending Athens High School.
https://www.backdropmagazine.com/features/velvet-green-brings-junk-funk-music-to-athens
“Real Lizard” by Velvet Green
“Slipping Into Darkness” by Velvet Green
David Bruce’s Spoken Word (More or Less)
- Rise above.
Theater director Tyrone Guthrie advised his actors and crew to do this. The advice means to rise above whatever forces are working against you. All of us have personal problems. No one’s life is perfect. Sometimes, life seems to conspire against us. Rise above all that, and produce the best work you can.
- Astonish me.
Dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev advised his choreographers to do this. The advice means what it says. Do such good work that the person who commissioned the work—and of course the audience—is astonished. (Tyrone Guthrie also used this phrase.)
- Do it now.
As a young man, choreographer George Balanchine nearly died and so he believed in living his life day by day and not holding anything back. He would tell his dancers, “Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.” Throughout his career, including before he became world renowned, he worked with what he had, not complaining about wanting a bigger budget or better dancers. One of the pieces of advice Mr. Balanchine gave over and over was this: “Do it now.”
- Go out and get one.
Ruth St. Denis once taught Martha Graham an important lesson when Ms. Graham was just starting to dance. Ms. St. Denis told Ms. Graham, “Show me your dance.” Ms. Graham replied, “I don’t have one,” and Ms. St. Denis advised, “Well, dear, go out and get one.” (Everyone needs an art to practice. Your art need not be dance. Perhaps your art can be writing autobiographical essays. Of course, you may practice more than one art.)
- Work a little harder.
“I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good—maybe you’re not the best, so you should work a little harder.”—Jay Leno.
- The only way to do it is to do it.
Asked “What’s the best advice anyone ever gave you?”choreographer Merce Cunningham replied, “‘The only way to do it is to do it.’ It’s advice I gave myself as a young man, and I continue to give to students now.”
- Add a little color to the facts.
You don’t need to be 100 percent truthful in your autographical writing. As the great bard Fflewddur Fflam says, “I can’t help, ah, adding a little color to the facts—most facts need it so badly.”
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