VoWoD
~Vocal Warmup of the Day~
All vocal warmups found on the Daily Cross-Swords have been officially approved by Monaco J. Snackcracker (seen at left) prior to posting.
Enjoy and use these freely in your own classes and venues!
Today:
Hi all, what a great time we had today! Here’s the rundown:
Next week, we start choreographing fights from all this stuff!
Here’s a picture for Nick in his signage artistic endeavors. Hopefully you’ve got a good view of these swept hilts, Nick!
~Jenn
Bike to Work Day is today here in the Boulder-Denver area. Folks get free breakfast and swag for taking anything but a car to do their jobs and other tasks today. One day out of the year. Could you do it?
Bike-to-Work-Day is a kind of joke around the Bonzuko household. We live in Boulder, work and school in Denver, and do not even own a car. Jenn doesn’t even have a license. People think we’re insane every other day of the year, except today. We are green commuters, though–maybe it’s our way of making up for our computers being on all day…
It’s a big lifestyle change to not drive ever. All your travel takes more time. Way more time. You have to make sure you carry everything on you for your entire day. You have to be ready for anything the elements give you. And if you’re Stage Combat and/or Martial Arts teachers like we are, you have big cumbersome burdens to carry. And you do end up walking every day.
That’s why we’re so fit, actually. Let’s tally the health benefits, shall we? A walk of approximately 10-20 minutes a day. Fresh air and moving blood. Two fewer people in cars eevryday helps the planet. Cheaper health insurance for living in a healthy city. Calm serenity in letting the bus driver do the traffic negotiation. Meditation every day. Have I forgotten any?
Anyway, happy Bike-to-Work-Day.
VoWoD
~Vocal Warmup of the Day~
All vocal warmups found on the Daily Cross-Swords have been officially approved by Monaco J. Snackcracker (seen at left) prior to posting.
Enjoy and use these freely in your own classes and venues!
Today:
Now, I consider myself to be a pretty gosh-darn good theatrical swordsperson. Rapier was my specialty back in my SAFD days, and I’m an okay hand at the stage katana. I am also a Star Wars Geek of the first water.
However, Ryan and Dorkman make me look like a kid playing by Boulder Creek with a stick. And I’m not ashamed to admit that. Attack of the Show (on G4) mentioned them in passing once, I went and found them on YouTube–there are two epic lightsaber fights, and mean teasing whispers of a third.
If you haven’t seen these guys yet, check ‘em out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-is63goeBgc
~Jenn
VoWoD
~Vocal Warmup of the Day~
All vocal warmups found on the Daily Cross-Swords have been officially approved by Monaco J. Snackcracker (seen at left) prior to posting.
Enjoy and use these freely in your own classes and venues!
Today:
RPG mania is in the air! Check the following link for a shweat gallery of Dungeons & Dragons miniature figures … constructed Origami style! Joseph Wu is the artist. Nice work, Sir. Thanks, BoingBoing~
D&D Origami
On Floor:
“Throws” on Squishy Mat (note the quotation marks):
There are more of these “throws”–we’ll begin with them next week and go from there. And Hannah will do the Side Roll Variations! 
See you then!
~Jenn
In case you wanted more on Bonzuko Movement Arts, check out the following links:
http://www.bonzuko.com
http://portfolio.du.edu/jzukowsk
The Bonzuko website is way fledgling–just started it recently. It’ll soon be more in sync with this blog. For now, the blog is the place to go for current Bonzuko events.
The portfolio is pretty ancient–I set it up way back in 2001 or 2 when I first got hired by DU as an instructor, and I’ve been using it mostly as a website for myself and my work.
So pretty soon, the Stage Combat and Movement tabs on the Portfolio will be morphed into bonzuko.com, and the site and the blog will be more in sync.
But there are pretty fun pictures to look at, especially on the portfolio, so have fun!
~Jenn
VoWoD
~Vocal Warmup of the Day~
All vocal warmups found on the Daily Cross-Swords have been officially approved by Monaco J. Snackcracker (seen at left) prior to posting.
Enjoy and use these freely in your own classes and venues!
Today:
~Jason
