Category: Diary

(Diary #39 – Mom’s Instagrams of me ‘n Fiona in ballet clothes)   You know how agent…

MARTHA’S VINEYARD, 1984 — I guess the reason you’re supposed to do a “Diary” as it happens…

COLUMBUS CIRCLE, NEW YORK CITY, 3 October — Occupy Columbus. Soror Nishi’s cousin Tatsu Nishi has erected…

STROOM DEN HAAG, 1995 — Stephen Carpenter, Cathy Plaza, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Stacey Giachino & Robert Uzgalis in…

WAN CHAI, HONG KONG, 1990 — Senior Year. Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Artist’s Sketchbook. haha….

WAN CHAI, HONG KONG, 1988 — Juli Patten, Jonni Hovan, Vaneeesa Blaylock. Modern Dance class. Hong Kong…

MUI WO BEACH, LANTAU ISLAND, HONG KONG, 1989 — Dear diary. Sophomore year. Photography class. Just farting…

KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, 1995 — Another “manufactured image” from my grad school roommate Stacey Giachino and I. THE…

NEW YORK, 2012 — Gallery Xue / NYC is a real, working art gallery, but it also…

THE MAURITSHUIS MUESUM, 1995 — Museum docent Vaneeesa Anne Blaylock dutifully showing Mauritshuis visitors the permanent collection…

KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, 1995 — The Koninklijk Conservatorium Department of Dance presents Stacey Giachino and Vaneeesa Blaylock in…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 1994 — Fiona and I holding a crystal ball in the lobby of “Blaylock’s Palmistry,” a…

TIANANMEN SQUARE, 2000 — In a rare act of generosity Xue’s father flew her to Taipei for…

ANGEL BEACH, 2009 — One day I had the sudden impulse to gather piles of finely ground…

HALLIBURTON, THE HAGUE, 2001 — I’d received my MFA from Koninklijk a couple of years earlier and…

KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, 1997 — This was after I left the graduate dance program and had transferred to…

MUI WO BEACH, LANTAU ISLAND, HONG KONG, 1989 — Sophomore year. Photography class. hahaha – notice I…

AMSTERDAM, 1996 — The Treachery of Heels. THE HAGUE, 2012 — We’ve already established that I’m a…

WASHINGTON, D.C., 1975 — Oh gawd, this thing. One Easter, yes I am a (half) Jewish girl…

KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, 1996 — Me, being a dweeb with my camera’s self timer and a tripod. THE…

MARTHA’S VINEYARD, 1980 — Brilliant costume designs by the 11-year-old fashion prodigy Vaneeesa Blaylock for her summer…

TAIPEI, 1991 — Do you remember what you were wearing the day you got pregnant? I do….

WAN CHAI, HONG KONG, 1991 — “Persona.” Yes, my senior thesis choreography was named after a Bergman…

KOWLOON TONG, HONG KONG, 1989 — Junior Year. This guy from City University of Hong Kong came…

TSIM SHA TSUI, HONG KONG, 1991 — A group of HKAPA students and I went to Tsim…

WASHINGTON, DC, 1984 — Oh gawd, stop laughing! What self-respecting DC 15-year-old wouldn’t wear stilettos and ridiculously…

SOMEWHERE NEAR BLACK ROCK CITY, NEVADA, 1998 — Liz Bowman and I walking in the Nevada desert,…

SAN DIEGO, 1996 — Eight years earlier the University of California, San Diego had altered the trajectory…

HONG KONG, 1989 — Terri Ray, Liz Tarnov, and I being goofballs out at some really old…

MARTHA’S VINEYARD, 1977 — Summertime on The Vineyard. I was never actually this young, was I? No…