L. Nicol Cabe

About a year and a half ago, I began blues dancing. Like most people of my age and nerdiness, I had traumatic experiences in middle and high school that put me off ever exercising again, ever. I’d rather starve myself to be thin than join a gym and work for it. I took a yoga [...]

I have found the best actor in the world. That is insane. I tried finding some information about mimic octopuses (or octopode) in captivity, but mainly found information about them as pets, in aquariums. What I want to know is how much of this behavior is learned based on their environment, and how much of [...]

I haven’t blogged about the last handful of movement classes I’ve been to, because I can’t seem to consciously hold everything important that I want to talk about in my head for more than a day. This is really unfortunate, because I feel like the class is having a huge effect on my life. I [...]

To help test our focus, we’re slowly memorizing parts of this poem: Ulysses (part 1) Alfred, Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and [...]

I have become obsessed lately with very physical theatre. It started with the barest mention of Meyerhold’s Biomechanics in a theatre history class. In England, and then at a later internship in Seattle, I started learning about “outside-in” acting, which uses physical expressions of emotions as the basis of internal emotional reaction — the opposite [...]