New Year's Eve Performance

THe Mean Man and I will be doing an aerial bondage performance at the Center For Sex Positive Culture's New Year's Eve party. We have been planning and plotting a new act for this event.

Since we will be at the Center, in a very kink friendly atmosphere, we see this as a prime chance to inject a strong d/s element into a new act. There has been much discussion of what this will look like and how we can fuel the act with fear and lust. We haven't gone in this direction before. Each act heretofore has played with freedom, connection, and joy. I am curious to see how our plans will convey this new direction.

With more time, we are thinking more story is in order, as well as more spectacle. The biggest pieces to put into place are costuming and music. Music is tricky as the mood changes as we progress through the performance. It is always a little unnerving to work with more than one piece of music. Cues are so easily missed or delayed, espeically when performing for the first time in a venue. What would be optimal is to string the music together into one track so we just need to push play at the start and push stop at the end of the act. Simlicity. But to have that simplicity we need software and know-how. (This is when I yearn for technology from the movie the Matrix; just download the skills into my head!)

I am looking forward to getting into the space to practice. Workshopping and experimenting will be a good way to make the final decisions regarding this act. I love the creative process. That feeling of pulling numerous ideas and pieces together into a whole, something beautiful and interesting, is so satifying.

The conversations we have had while we brainstom are fun, too. Seeing the Mean Man's eyes light up at an idea I have expressed and hearing the new thoughts it inspires in him is exciting, and builds energy. Conceding that some of the things I come up with are a terrible idea is made tolerable by how entertaining his "no fucking way!" safety rants are. It's important for me to keep the ideas flowing, since the really good ideas often roll in after a few bombs.