Added a bunch of picture from St. Petersburg on to the web, they can be found under the link to the right...

Hoski

Posted some more pictures. Apologize for the shortness of descriptions below each one, but it would take me forever to do so. Want to point out specially the castpictures from The Birds performances... Have ordered the actual production shots, and will post them once I get my hands on them and a scanner.

Hope all is well!

Hoski

Added a few more pictures onto the web, under a new link (no need to have the picture page to big, for the sake of speed...) that can be found here to the right...

Found an interesting article about our trip to Moscow:

It is from the NIU office of Public Affairs and it is here.

Hoski

Following is a post, that I wrote the night we performed the Birds... Don't know why it didn't post then, but here goes again!

The Birds

Well, we did it. We've now officially performed at the Moscow Art
Theatre. Well... be it a studio show, but still. We've performed.

The show went well, in my opinion. Considering that I'm an actor, trained by people who always say the work ain't done, I think that speaks volumes. For my cast, the graduating cast, this was a trial by fire, and I think we stood the test. I would like to congratulate Dr. Schneider on his work being performed at the Moscow Art, and also Alex Gelman, for taking a chance on something like this. I know the process was hard, and that the performance was a little rough, but all things considered, I think we came, we saw, and we performed. Many thanks to Markle, Deborah and Kathryn for their endless devotion and time spent on this project.

For me, one of the more interesting things here is the fact that the Moscow Art Theatre School is holding auditions right now. The door is surrounded by enthusiastic students trying to get an audition but some seem to turn away disapointed (as far as I can understand!) Every day we walk right past them into the school, and I can't help but feel a little bad for them. It's very rare to see 14 year old kids smoke out of stress, and personally I think it's rather interesting considdering that their mothers are standing/sitting right next to them. some of them audition on the floor that our classes are held at, and they all look at us (at least me) with some sort of expectation that I don't alway feel I can't live up to.

My first Ballet classes (first dance class, EVER, since I was about 6, and those consisted mostly of hiding under chairs...) here are really interesting. The teacher, the old primaballerina from the Bolshoi, is kicking my butt, but it's so much fun. Every day, the routine becomes less confusing, and considdering that I have two left feet, that's pretty good (as I'm sure Paula Fraz can attest to...). Movement is streaching me to the limmits, littereally, but every day I do something I could not do before, so something is working about that class.

Time is running out

I hope all is well at the home front:

Love

Hoski

Hey all...

Ann and I are in London Right now, having a blast! Went all over today, and saw the sights, gearing up for Moscow, Monday morning! Hope ya'lls preperation is going well!

Best of luck on your travels!

Hoski

Hello everyone, this is the first post of this blog site, since last summer. I hope you enjoy reading about our exciting adventures in Moscow, here on this blog, and hope you check in as often as you can.

To Moscow!

Hoski