askland on January 20th, 2009

Part Two Obama Inauguration speech part one and two. CNN analyzes the speech content here: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/obama.speech.sources/index.html

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askland on December 21st, 2008

Photo November 2008 at the ZAIA Theater – Venetian Macao. Manchester United visited Cirque Du Soleil’s ZAIA Theater in Macau, China as part of their promotion for the new Manchester United Interactive Football Experience located at the Venetian Macao. Here is the photo of MU with the ZAIA cast (I’m on the far right in [...]

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askland on December 10th, 2008

In early December 2007 I had let go of all but one of my posts in preparation of leaving to work for Cirque Du Soleil. I received notice at the beginning of December that my date to join Cirque had been moved to three weeks later so I had some time on my hands. My [...]

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askland on December 10th, 2008

WITTENBERG THEATER CLOSES 2001 Theater Wittenberg Closes Its Doors – The Theater Wittenbergs sustaining institution, a special purpose association, has resolved to close the theatre beginning in summer 2001. The decision will affect 156 jobs. A theatre for children and young people and a project-based music theatre will remain in operation. HISTORY OF THEATER IN [...]

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askland on November 14th, 2008

A film by Davy McGuire 2008 showing the cast of Zaia from training in Montreal to opening in Macau at the Venetian Casino. The Zaia artists saw this for the first time in the green room at the Cirque Du Soleil Zaia Theater in Macau in October 2008. At 1:19 there’s a photo of me [...]

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askland on November 10th, 2008

Video clips of the 2003 film “Luther” about Martin Luther and the Reformation. I have a wide variety of views listed here. I don’t agree with all of them, but I enjoy the diversity. And it interests me that 500 years later people are still so passionate about Martin Luther.

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askland on October 14th, 2008

*Someone just wrote me and said “this could’ve been a C-flat”. Ouch, that’s bad!* I finally got to ride the elephants! That was one of the things I wanted to do while visiting Thailand. This was my first full vacation since relocating to China with Cirque Du Soleil. We spent three days in Bangkok and [...]

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askland on October 14th, 2008

Before leaving for vacation we had a great Cirque bachelor party for a certain artist. I’ll tell you that when you get high energy artists together for a party – it’s a PARTY! What a great crew. Pic up top is myself and Tom, one of our clowns.

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