Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts – May 2025

And now, we’re fully into it all! Final show rehearsals in warm rooms, practising moving the show forward, remembering all the details, celebrating one performance done and done well (Forte Plus and SAOT), creating little candy baggys (yum), putting together pinwheels (mysterious), meeting our band members, figuring out which color represents each song (uplights!), “retiring” […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts – April 2025

Here come those final rehearsals! If you are a performer of any variety, this is not the time to get complacent. Final rehearsals may feel like you know everything already and you’re just going through the motions but I urge you to find more. In fact, that is our job as performers – to find […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts – March 2025

March heralds the turning of another season. We even get to turn our clocks ahead on Mar 9 and celebrate spring on Mar 20. International Women’s Day, Pi Day, St Patrick’s Day and even Eiffel Tower Day all fall in March. I encourage us all to find new ways of being, make some new friends, […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts for January 2025

A fresh start. A time to reinvent ourselves. New beginnings. These are all words we use at this time of year….never mind the big “R” word! “Reso-what-now?” January itself is named after Janus the God of beginnings and transitions. He is a two-headed God looking back to the past and ahead to the future. Things […]
Criselda’s Noteworthy Thoughts for September 2024