April 15 rehearsal

Just back from Italy and feeling a bit of longing for Roma and displacement in Atlanta.  Rehearsal was nice re-entry.  Thinking about seeing the Pieta in Rome at St. Peter's and the incredible human moment of grief and loss. Felt right to be using paintings as visual prompts to move after seeing so much art in Rome. And kept seeing arc and bridges in everything I looked at, or responded that way at least.  Also in talking about vacuum cleaner salesmen, keep thinking about kinetic art piece I saw many years ago- The Bridge of Sighs, drawing on the Venice bridge where one could hear the sighs of all the condemned who had crossed it on their way to prison.  Was done with vacuum cleaners suspended from the ceiling that went off one after the other... at least in my memory that was it.