I am in the middle point of my travels, and I have decided to teach a workshop for the Toronto folks again. It was a new approach, as I plan to write a new video series to teach in a sense-based way.

I have recieved some great feedback, including one of my students who wrote me this today:

Hey there – just wanted to thank you for a great workshop! I’ve always been fascinated by contact juggling, but had never touched a ball before. I was skeptical that I’d be able to learn much in a short workshop, but was surprised. You taught the basics in a fun and easy to follow way. Balances made sense right away and body rolls were fun to play with. I feel like i have the basic mechanics of isolations as well as a bunch of butterfly variations – there’s lots that i can work on on my own time.

Thanks again, Dawn! see you next time you’re in town!

Thanks for your feedback! It is great to hear I can help people learn something which I have fallen in love with so deeply.

So, wow.

Last night I had a dream that I jumped off the moon with a parachute in my space suit costume to earth. It’s a sign, really, one that knows that I am leaping into a beautiful adventure, arriving in reality and reality is truly a dream.

The reality is that I’ve been invited to join The Busking Project for the last leg of their journey through South America. What an amazing opportunity to be part of this incredible adventure and wonderful contribution to the Street Arts community.  I can often be very critical of various causes, but my every part of my soul supports what this team has created already, and wants to help them fulfill this dream to it’s greatest potential. I believe this could be the film that represents street art for what it’s really worth in the world as a contribution to the real life wonders of impromptu art in it’s full glory. It is so well developed in it’s film quality and production, in the way it captures the people they meet, and in the intentions of the team themselves.

Can you be in love with a project? These guys have really captured a dream I hadn’t known existed (yet have already been fulfilling myself on a small scale). I can’t believe I get to join them to help! It’s amazing when something you never imagined flies into your life and happens to be the most incredible thing you’ve ever seen. Awesome.

We need your help to keep this dream alive. The Busking Project is looking for Sponsors or Donations to help with the costs of creating this film. As a independent project, filming in 40 countries over 10 months and creating a feature length film as well as hundreds of promotional shorts for each featured performer, is ambitious. These ambitions are already %50 completed, with some amazing results, and you could help this become the next big film to come out of the film festival circuit.  We would be very grateful to any and all contributions to the project.

I’m going to Bogota on Friday. I may not post here for a time, keep updated through the Facebook Page to keep up with the adventure.

Today was contact juggling day (also Thanksgiving here in Vancouver). I am very grateful to contact juggling for giving me so much joy and so many friends in my life.  I taught a workshop at sideshow studios and it was fantastic! It was filled a with  great group of beginners who caught on really quickly. Side Show was super helpful, and Yuki took a lot of video of the workshop that perhaps I will see some footage of soon.  Thanks to everyone who participated and thanks to sideshow for their gracious use of space! Happy Day!! Play with your balls

I made a small street performing video that was inspired by and talks about meeting The Busking Project. YAY ~ They seriously rocked my world.  This is my gold costume, and a small bit of me street performing from an iPhone (Thanks to James for filming). I used this all summer in Toronto and Vancouver as my newest act, and I believe it was a hit! I should get some better footage when The Busking Project gets to editing a short of my set they filmed.

Oh, and go like them on Facebook, they are rad people, you’ll want to keep up with their last 2 months of travel.

http://www.facebook.com/thebuskingproject