The Sage Awards are the Minneapolis dance community’s ceremony to recognize outstanding performers, performances, designs, etc. of the previous year. I was nominated for Outstanding Performance for Brown Rocket and Outstanding Performer for Brown Rocket, WRECK, and UGLY. I won the Outstanding Performer Award, which totally encouraged me that what I do ripples past the proscenium, especially since the panel is made of fellow dancers and dance intellectuals.
Brown Rocket was robbed of the Outstanding Performance Award, but hey, it’s wonderful to have come away with one at all and to even be nominated, right? I think the 12 panelists went to over 250 performances collectively! And, of course, it’s foolish to take these things too seriously. Still, it will look nice on my resume and bio.
A local visual artist is commissioned every year to create the year’s award. This year the award is the spawn of Kirk McCall. The award is a continuation of his ink drawing series, White Pine Trees Drawn On Napkins.
Calm. Guileless. “Green”. Looks at home alongside the paperbacks and hard covers. And if I ever run out of toilet paper… No! I would never!
I really am honored to be acknowledged for my work. As a choreographer and a dancer in such a great dance community it’s wonderful to be noted as “outstanding”. The experience of giving everything I have in a performance and the relationships that develop through the work has been the award that sustains me in this profession, but I certainly have felt my head fly back from this little extra kick of attention.
Congratulations! Well deserved!
Thanks, Joshua.
Congratulations on winning best performer.
I am sorry you don’t like the award.
Oh, no, Kirk! I think it’s great. I was just making a joke about what it’s made out of. I think it’s pretty frickin’ cool to have this beautiful drawing on a medium that is generally soiled and tossed out. Perhaps my tone of venerability was not clear enough before I made the “toilet paper” comment. Sincerely, I am sorry for the misunderstanding. Nonetheless, I do really love the award; I would have stashed it away somewhere dark and musty if I didn’t like it. Ask my mom about that. Anyway, your work is appreciated and thank you for checking out my blog.
Way to go.
Does the drawing include a woman (in a dress) on the left of the tree, looking at the tree?
Wow, never noticed that. Now, that you’ve drawn my attention to it I see a small child coming through a time/space portal to the right of her and a turkey attached to the rear-end of a poodle to the left. There’s a partridge half-way up the tree and on the ground to the right of the trunk, an alien looking dog, a pelican with dragonfly wings, and a few scattered birdies in front of the trunk. Crazy. But, no, I think we are only hallucinating.
I am so very proud of you.
And yes, Eddie has been known to stash things he doesn’t like in dark, musty places! And then there was the time that his hamster died . . . . .and he left the aquarium in a very bright, sunny and warm place . . . . .:)
I LOVE YOU, MOM.