Yay, Kate is back...

At 5 in the morning I woke up with a headache. Usually if I wake with a headache I don’t tumble but this morning was my handspring week, so I took panadol, slept another hour and a half and then, after breakfast took prophylactic ibuprofen before cycling to tumbling. Today, Kate was back from Switzerland and working with us for the first time since really early on. We set up the set, with her helping, making too many banging noises for the people sharing the space. While we held bunkbed parts and turned allen keys she told us about Switzerland and clowning – inspiring, thinking about our own Europe adventure plans
Then we sat at the messy westside sharehouse table and showed her footage of our work. She’s really great for the encouraging approval: “Beautiful, ohh, great, ohh beautiful” Definitely keeps me feeling like our work is worth doing. She asked and asked and asked. It was at least an hour and a half of catching her up to speed on what we’d been doing, showing all Amanda’s designs, playing her Ania’s music, picking the bits of impro we wanted to show her.
Then she set us some impro tasks. We started out the three of us on the top bunk, playing with being a boat, a spaceship, a tall building and telling superhero stories. Then we did some solo impro around our characters, just sitting with Kate asking our characters questions.
There was a lot of gold. Terry only eats cornflakes, the dog is called Natalie, Christy’s character, with the goggles on her face, just gets more and more hilarious. It felt very useful lots of thoughts came out of it for me. It seems like maybe we don’t slip between modes. Maybe we just are our characters