WORKOUT #1: I am Kym.

1.Go to the ENDURE Facebook Page and tell us who you are and why you decided to become involved in the Sweat Collective. You can tell us in any form: videos, poems, blogs are encouraged, but don't get burned out, this is just your first workout! Please complete this by Monday, April 25th.

Ah, the beauty of deadlines.  I love to hear those words:  Have it done by...Please complete this by...

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I am Kym.  I am co-founder of Collision Productions, Inc - the producer of ENDURE. 

That aside, I am not joining the Sweat Collective out of any artistic obligation - I am joining the Sweat Collective because I  am in training.  

Last year, I spent the year with the SITI company; an amazing group of artists/performers who have been working together for the last 15 years.  They use a unique combination of two techniques for training their performers - the Suzuki method and Viewpoints.  There is the Suzuki method which rigorously trains the body, the voice, the breath and the mind.  Viewpoints is more training instincts, being in the moment, finding new contexts, more a creative training.  

This work appeals to both sides of my personality.  Apparently, I'm 1/2 taskmaster and 1/2 hippie on acid.  

Anyway, the minute I began working with the SITI company I felt back in my skin.  And I liked that.  

I haven't trained seriously since December 2010.  Curveball ahead.

I was recently accepted into the SITI Summer Theater Workshop at Skidmore.  From June 19 until July 15, 2011 - 1 month of intense training, writing, memorizing, play analyzing.  But not only that, I'll be away from my fiance for the first time in 12 years.  I'll be living on a campus.  In a dorm room.  Possibly with a shared bathroom.   I hate carrying my soap and shampoo in a caddy.  

I'm demanding a lot from myself.  

So, I was laying there in yoga the other day and a thought popped into my brain, "You have to train.  You have to memorize 7 monologues.  You have to make a schedule.  And you have to be ready - physically and mentally." 

When I get to Skidmore, I want to be confident with text.  I want to be ahead of the curve.  I want to competitive - in a good way.  

Training brings confidence.  And takes hard word, dedication and early mornings.  Which I hate.  

So, there is a tad about me.  

I am Kym.  

I am in training.  

According to my training schedule, I have to memorize this by May 6.  (eep)

MacBeth-Shakespeare

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death.  Out out brief candle

Life's but a walking shadow- a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more.  It is a tale

Told by an idiot full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing.