We skipped Day 7 because it was a day off, but I couldn’t resist and we have a little sample of Sunday here. Day 8 was very emotional for me. Besides just the stress of being in the middle of these two weeks plus getting sick, I realized that every piece in which I perform [...]
A day off! (For most…..) While many took the day to explore Indianapolis, catch up on sleep,or go on a nature walk, Staff and a few artists joined again at the Wheeler to get a head-start on tech for the Open Lab Performance. Here’s a cool pic of one of the trees on our set [...]
DAILY WE’LL POST FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE INDY CONVERGENCE THROUGH THE EYES OF CINDY MARIE JENKINS, RESIDENT ARTIST SINCE 2009. Day 6 was an unusual day, assuming there is ever a usual day at an intensive designed to stretch your creative boundaries. Beginning with Pilates was typical, yet everyone noticed how everyone else in [...]
So this happens once in a while. Long days at the Indy Convergence blur, we get caught up in life, new friends and the work, and things like blogging fall to the wayside. I am back with a vengeance, though! As opposed to a recap of everything that happened in the last 72 hours, I’d [...]
DAILY WE’LL POST FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE INDY CONVERGENCE THROUGH THE EYES OF CINDY MARIE JENKINS, RESIDENT ARTIST SINCE 2009. Yesterday was a very long day, advancing towards the hardest parts for me: the dance-heavy umbrella project and my own first rehearsal. We began with pilates, taught by the Managing Director Caitlin Negron. [...]
Daily we’ll post first-person accounts and impressions of The Indy Convergence through the eyes of Cindy Marie Jenkins, Resident Artist since 2009. Today was an extraordinary first day. Starting with the fact that I had real staff duties as Resident Artist, it felt awesome to be able to help Robert and Caitlin with general getting-shit-ready-for-new-people. [...]
Hey Everyone! We made it. This is the first time we’ve been able to get internet. Things here are going great. With Desiree’s expert teaching and translation skills Michael and Caitline just finished choreographing a dance with some girls that live in the neighborhood. They’ll be balancing water buckets on their heads the whole time- [...]
Robert’s back in the states for six weeks before we all head back to Haiti for the first Indy Convergence-Haiti! Here are a few photos. Keep checking back for more. Now that he’s home, we have tons of footage and photos of Saka-La-Ka-Wel, the students, artwork and beauty of Jacmel.
We are starting to work on what will be a show during the official Indy Convergence-Haiti project in April. We’re looking to create a set that is similar to our first Convergence in 2008 that featured a newspaper landscape. The theme in Haiti is going to be something like “Garbage comes to life”. We are [...]
In the last few days our work and ideas have really come to life at Saka-La-Ka-Wel. Not only is it a school for music, but will house a restaurant, modest hotel and public courtyard. People are beginning to see S.K.L.W. as resource in the community for everything from art classes to coordinating taxi service and [...]
In short, Tasty the goat was very very tasty. I’ll save the details of my first experience eating an animal I bought alive- but it was pretty gruesome at first. However, I made a delicious orange reduction sauce for him and we all feasted last night at Kitchen ala Robert!
First day of hard sun in a few days. It’s been raining pretty hard lately. Everything pretty much shuts down in the rain and we have been getting a little stir crazy. We’ve busied ourselves with dominoes and poker, and have made a pretty nice poker set out of bottle caps. Today, we are heading [...]
We have finally crossed a language threshold and are comfortable wandering around on our own, bargaining with vendors and making small talk. Our freedom really came once I was able to get the hand of riding the motorcycle again in the city and on the less maintained roads near Saka-La-Ka-Wel. This all came to a [...]
Taught a vocal music class today at Jacmel Expression with Desiree and Gabe. Both Gabe and I realized today that we need to give into the fact that we have unwittingly become full time teachers in a just a few days. Tonight we built lesson plans in theater, guitar and kenpo. Improvements to the locale continue. Gabe [...]
I’m still texting small reports. Hopefully I will find internet connection soon. What first started out as Gabe and I working out has become a class we are teaching every day. The result is Gabe and I have to practice our Kenpo on the roof or everyone begins to gather and ask us to teach. [...]
Safe and sound at the locale in Jacmel, Haiti. Our host thought we were arriving on Saturday so we had to find our way on our own. We took a taxi to a bus from the airport to get to Jamel. But- we made it! The bus ride was four hours and literally filled to [...]
Applications for the 2012 Indy Convergence are now open. Deadline to apply with funding is January 15, 2012. Final deadline to apply (without funding option) is February 13, 2012. The Indy Convergence seeks out professional artists with a passion for exploration and a unique talent or approach that will contribute to the ensemble. Participants also [...]
The Indy Convergence connects and empowers professional artists of all disciplines through meaningful residencies where artists create new work, collaborate across genres and teach community workshops. We are 'Artists at Work'.