Thursday, April 20, 2006
Reject
Well, I have a feeling that my agent is going to drop me when I get back to Toronto. This is the e-mail I sent her, alerting her of my return to the city:
Hiya!
I just thought I'd send a note to say hello and tell you that I am on my way back into the city. My plane arrives late on the 29th, and then I'm back back back. I've got a whole bunch of stuff going on, but little of it should interfere with being able to send me out for auditions.
Here's the stuff I've got going on:
When I arrive back, we're launching my theatre company with a fundraiser and launch party on either the 24th or 25th of May (depending on venue - I'll send you an invitation when we have the details 100% confirmed). You can check out the temp website at www.thistleproject.ca. The fully interactive site is going to be launched the same day as the official company launch. That day will be a write off, as I'm sure I'll be organising and running around like a madman all day.
If I can sell my condo in time, and get a good chunk of change, I'm going to return to Vancouver for two weeks to do a workshop with Kokoro (say, 9-24 July)
Then, we've scheduled the workshop for my company's piece (Gorey Story) from 25 July to 6 August. This will be during the day (10-5), so I won't be available during that time.
Then, we're starting rehearsals proper on ... still it's a bit up in the air, but maybe the 7th of October, with daytime rehearsals again. The show goes up on Halloween, and will run until 18 November.
However, my days will be occupied again from 13 November (possibly 6 November, but I somehow think this won't happen) until possibly 7 December, and then I'll have evening performances from 7 December to 16 December, with Theatre Rusticle, on their piece The Stronger Variations. I'm really excited about this contract. It's exactly the type of work I like to do - physical, multi-disciplinary theatre.
That's about all that's planned right now. There are some other things going on, but I can work them around auditions. Perhaps we can set up a time, if you'd like and I can show you the pictures that Tim Leyes took before I left Toronto. My hair is shorter right now, but they're pretty useful, I think.
I hope this finds you well, and I'll talk with you soon. I look forward to visiting you when I get back.
Love,
Mattie
All very exciting. Here's the response I got:
hi matthew.
hope this finds you well.
i am thrilled to hear things are healthy and productive for you...
however, i am somewhat concerned, having just taken in your email...
it's my thinking that you and i have a sit down and chat about our plans...
give me a call.
agent
Perhaps this is not the time for me to have an agent anyway. If I'm going to be splitting my time between Toronto and Vancouver for the next few years (I hope), getting Thistle off the ground, and pursuing public funding to develop my own movement vocabulary for a series of dance pieces including the butoh strip piece and the Paradise Lost piece, going out for Business Depot and East Side Mario's commercials might be more of an encumberance than a help, no matter how lucrative they are. The other thing I was thinking was that I could offer butoh classes, regular classes, like twice a week, maybe once a week at first, either through Thistle, or maybe I could approach EST about hiring me on as a teacher. This would be ideal. It would be an income source, a way to keep up my practice as a butoh artist, and it's my own freelance work, so I can do it whenever I'm in town. This would be ideal. And twice a week, in the evenings would mean that I could still have most evenings free for a night job.
Hiya!
I just thought I'd send a note to say hello and tell you that I am on my way back into the city. My plane arrives late on the 29th, and then I'm back back back. I've got a whole bunch of stuff going on, but little of it should interfere with being able to send me out for auditions.
Here's the stuff I've got going on:
When I arrive back, we're launching my theatre company with a fundraiser and launch party on either the 24th or 25th of May (depending on venue - I'll send you an invitation when we have the details 100% confirmed). You can check out the temp website at www.thistleproject.ca. The fully interactive site is going to be launched the same day as the official company launch. That day will be a write off, as I'm sure I'll be organising and running around like a madman all day.
If I can sell my condo in time, and get a good chunk of change, I'm going to return to Vancouver for two weeks to do a workshop with Kokoro (say, 9-24 July)
Then, we've scheduled the workshop for my company's piece (Gorey Story) from 25 July to 6 August. This will be during the day (10-5), so I won't be available during that time.
Then, we're starting rehearsals proper on ... still it's a bit up in the air, but maybe the 7th of October, with daytime rehearsals again. The show goes up on Halloween, and will run until 18 November.
However, my days will be occupied again from 13 November (possibly 6 November, but I somehow think this won't happen) until possibly 7 December, and then I'll have evening performances from 7 December to 16 December, with Theatre Rusticle, on their piece The Stronger Variations. I'm really excited about this contract. It's exactly the type of work I like to do - physical, multi-disciplinary theatre.
That's about all that's planned right now. There are some other things going on, but I can work them around auditions. Perhaps we can set up a time, if you'd like and I can show you the pictures that Tim Leyes took before I left Toronto. My hair is shorter right now, but they're pretty useful, I think.
I hope this finds you well, and I'll talk with you soon. I look forward to visiting you when I get back.
Love,
Mattie
All very exciting. Here's the response I got:
hi matthew.
hope this finds you well.
i am thrilled to hear things are healthy and productive for you...
however, i am somewhat concerned, having just taken in your email...
it's my thinking that you and i have a sit down and chat about our plans...
give me a call.
agent
Perhaps this is not the time for me to have an agent anyway. If I'm going to be splitting my time between Toronto and Vancouver for the next few years (I hope), getting Thistle off the ground, and pursuing public funding to develop my own movement vocabulary for a series of dance pieces including the butoh strip piece and the Paradise Lost piece, going out for Business Depot and East Side Mario's commercials might be more of an encumberance than a help, no matter how lucrative they are. The other thing I was thinking was that I could offer butoh classes, regular classes, like twice a week, maybe once a week at first, either through Thistle, or maybe I could approach EST about hiring me on as a teacher. This would be ideal. It would be an income source, a way to keep up my practice as a butoh artist, and it's my own freelance work, so I can do it whenever I'm in town. This would be ideal. And twice a week, in the evenings would mean that I could still have most evenings free for a night job.
// posted by MSR @ 3:06 PM 
