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What You Cannot Eat You Can

May 16th, 2013 · 4 Comments

“What You Cannot Eat You Can” was a solo performance piece I did with the Oberlin Dance Collective back in 1977, out in San Francisco.  It involved found verses, non-magic tricks, painted plastic eggs, and water; in the course of it, I changed a set of riddles into their answers.  Here are a few pages from my notebooks for the piece, including a rare photo of my 1977 beard, followed by a review from Nancy Steele, The Daily Californian, 12/16/77.

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Tags: *Stage · W

4 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Mamie // May 21, 2013 at 6:56 pm

    Cute baby Doug!!!!!

  • 2 blackscatbooks // May 21, 2013 at 7:00 pm

    Happy to see you were a hippie.

  • 3 Doug // May 22, 2013 at 1:45 am

    Well, I had a beard, but was uninterested in drugs and crappy music.

  • 4 blackscatbooks // May 22, 2013 at 11:03 am

    You were ahead of your times.