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These words are the main subject which is very minimal but very clear to read. I like the use of words that have been crossed off intentionally this could show things we say versus what we think.

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Written by Margery Bayne (she/her)

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These people, Vanuatans, engaged once a year in a peculiar ritual: the men would climb a high and rickety-looking wooden tower and, goaded on by their womenfolk, who chanted songs of exhortation, leap from the top of this, head first. They wore vines round their ankles, cut to such a length that they would tauten just before the men’s torsos crashed into the earth below. After watching the documentary, I’d climb up my younger sisters’ bunk-bed and, fastening T-shirts and pyjamas round my ankles and the bedpost, leap repeatedly, head first, towards the carpet. If a Vanuatan hesitated or refused a dive, his womenfolk would whip themselves with thorns and nettles, to shame him into action; I made my sisters whip themselves with flannels. I performed the ritual for several days, until a dislocated shoulder and my parents’ veto brought an end to it—but by then, the documentary had done its work. From that time onwards, when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I’d tell them: anthropologist.

Tom McCarthy- Satin Island

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Show in NYC tonight + workshops in Florida this week, and other musings.

Tonight in NYC, my improv duo From Justin to Kelly has the last show of our monthly run at the PIT Loft (154 West 29th Street, b/w 6th and 7th) at 8:00 PM. If you’re in town, you should consider coming. It’s going to be really fun.

On Thursday, we head to Florida for a few days of teaching and performing!

Thursday, July 14th, 7:00 PM: We’re teaching our workshop, The Most Important Moment of Your Life, at ArtsGarage in Delray Beach. Huge thanks to ImprovU for inviting us down to teach, and for setting up Friday’s performance, too!

Friday, July 15th, 8:00 PM: We’re performing at SOL Children’s Theatre in Boca Raton, sharing the bill with local improv troupe Business Casual. (As far as I know, this is not a children’s show, but one for adults.)

Saturday, July 16th, 3:00PM: We’re teaching our workshop Love the One You’re With at the Sarasota Improv Festival.

** Above is a relatively new photo of us, taken by our friend Jesse in Eau Claire. I really like both the photo itself and what it implies - for me, that’s two collaborators looking together not toward the future, but toward the present. Embarking on this journey as an independent, touring improv enterprise has required me to reorient my thinking, away from milestones and goalposts and traditional indicators of success and the constant internal worry of “am-I-doing-this-right”, to instead root myself more firmly in the experience of the here and now. The here and now is all there really, truly is. I have to remind myself of that constantly, but I really believe it’s true.

The title of the first workshop we’re teaching in Florida (and that we taught in a few different places over the course of 2015) - The Most Important Moment of Your Life - was pulled directly from a quote I dug up from RuPaul’s Reddit AMA a couple years back: “This is the important thing: it's important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life.” (RuPaul has a *lot* of quotes that could apply to improv, and the entire AMA is worth reading.) This has become a major tenet of the improv philosophy that Justin and I have developed together over the course of our work and our teaching, this idea of being present in the moment, of having a first thing, and making that *first* thing you have between you really, truly matter. This moment you and your partner are having on stage, no matter how mundane, abstract, beautiful or just plain bizarre it is, has the power to be transformative, if you let it.

If this sounds simple, it is! And yet, improvisers of all levels struggle with the idea of truly staying in the present, preferring instead to stand outside the scene and judge it rather than existing fully within it. (I know this because I used to do this all the time.) And you know what? That’s understandable. All around us, as improvisers on stage, are escape hatches for our own commitment. Opportunities to bail on the moment are ever-present. Distractions - often in the form of self-judgement and us doing what I like to call “improv math” in our heads - are a constant background hum. From my own personal experience, for what it’s worth: when you’re fighting against these things, when you feel like you want to bail, or that you feel like what you have isn’t enough, commit ten times harder to what you and your partner *are* doing on stage. Commit so hard that you make yourself uncomfortable with how committed you are to this scene, no matter how mundane or stupid or abstract it is. Because that’s what being in the present really is - it’s total commitment.

I don’t know what tonight’s show will hold. There’s a certain low-level anxiety that comes with putting up your own show in New York, for me anyway, that never really goes away - that feeling that you’ve got to deliver here, when there’s about 20 improv shows going up around the city at the exact same time as yours. But I can tell you this - whatever it is, I know it will be committed. Because, basically, at the end of the day, all I ever want people to say about me after a show is this.