WEBVTT 00:00:34.869 --> 00:00:35.997 How did that look? 00:00:36.686 --> 00:00:37.310 Pretty good? 00:00:38.699 --> 00:00:42.062 Did it seem like I was scrolling my IPad or IPhone? 00:00:45.060 --> 00:00:47.951 So that's the sort of part I need to coordinate 00:00:47.951 --> 00:00:50.787 before I go - is getting that timing right. 00:00:50.787 --> 00:00:53.525 With obviously not your fingers but you whole body. 00:00:53.525 --> 00:00:54.871 Right. Yeah. Right 00:00:55.686 --> 00:00:58.272 This is my wig bag - all wigs. 00:00:59.811 --> 00:01:01.172 Well, and some bags. 00:01:05.806 --> 00:01:11.704 Okay - wig, book light, I think that's it. 00:01:11.704 --> 00:01:12.655 Oh, I have a list. 00:01:18.424 --> 00:01:19.598 I got it! 00:01:22.455 --> 00:01:26.328 So I hadn't been performing so much before I came 00:01:26.328 --> 00:01:29.881 to New York and then I also didn't have a studio then, 00:01:29.881 --> 00:01:31.679 I was so broke when I moved here. 00:01:31.679 --> 00:01:35.188 So, I decided to try to build the set with stuff 00:01:35.188 --> 00:01:37.549 that I could animate on my computer. 00:01:39.790 --> 00:01:43.569 So that was like the first time I made this decision 00:01:43.569 --> 00:01:46.478 to scale down and make this portable performance. 00:01:51.685 --> 00:01:54.509 Um, it's usually like me running around on the 00:01:54.509 --> 00:01:57.675 subway or maybe a car service if I'm feeling 00:01:57.675 --> 00:01:59.793 really glamorous - 00:01:59.793 --> 00:02:03.553 with all my props, you know, on my arms 00:02:03.553 --> 00:02:07.234 and setting up half an hour before 00:02:07.234 --> 00:02:08.512 the performance starts. 00:02:28.732 --> 00:02:30.820 With these performances I don't really know 00:02:30.820 --> 00:02:33.427 exactly how big this projection will be, 00:02:33.427 --> 00:02:35.278 you know, in relationship to my body. 00:02:36.278 --> 00:02:38.641 You know, if I'm like, taller than this projection 00:02:38.641 --> 00:02:40.210 then that's not really going to work. 00:02:42.837 --> 00:02:46.187 The worst is like if I get there and I can't 00:02:46.187 --> 00:02:50.911 test, you know, the DVD in the projection. 00:02:51.757 --> 00:02:53.207 And I hate that feeling 00:02:53.207 --> 00:02:54.939 of not being totally prepared. 00:02:56.017 --> 00:02:56.690 Yeah? 00:02:56.690 --> 00:02:57.299 Yeah. 00:02:57.299 --> 00:02:58.511 Cool! 00:03:05.079 --> 00:03:08.199 You know, at an opening, the attention span is 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:11.563 you know, at a certain level and something 00:03:11.563 --> 00:03:15.708 a lot longer than ten minutes is just like too long 00:03:15.708 --> 00:03:18.778 or - I mean especially for my work - it's not about - 00:03:18.778 --> 00:03:21.867 it's not really about that kind of challenge. 00:03:21.867 --> 00:03:23.841 How's the makeup looking? 00:03:23.841 --> 00:03:25.390 Gettin' there. 00:03:25.390 --> 00:03:26.462 Okay. 00:03:30.519 --> 00:03:33.077 Sometimes people don't realize that I'm 00:03:33.077 --> 00:03:37.038 in a costume - they just think I'm the wacky woman 00:03:38.587 --> 00:03:39.828 skulking in the back! 00:03:41.482 --> 00:03:42.225 Are you starting? 00:03:42.225 --> 00:03:42.728 Yeah. 00:03:42.728 --> 00:03:43.891 Oh, okay. 00:03:43.891 --> 00:03:45.837 I wanted - I didn't realize you were out here. 00:03:45.837 --> 00:03:47.480 Oh, I'll be right behind you. 00:03:47.480 --> 00:03:48.114 Okay. 00:04:16.710 --> 00:04:19.198 Leading up to the performance is totally 00:04:19.198 --> 00:04:22.088 nerve-wracking but once I've started I love it. 00:04:22.088 --> 00:04:24.187 I'm like having a great time. 00:04:41.315 --> 00:04:42.958 I eat pink! 00:04:47.484 --> 00:04:50.362 [Applause] 00:05:00.297 --> 00:05:04.297 Yeah, it was a nice response, wasn't it? 00:05:04.297 --> 00:05:06.594 Yeah, yeah, it was happy. 00:05:06.594 --> 00:05:09.242 I mean people tend to respond positively, 00:05:09.242 --> 00:05:12.111 you know, for most performance - 00:05:12.111 --> 00:05:16.694 so, I don't know if I can really go off that as, 00:05:16.694 --> 00:05:20.527 you know, a gauge for how successful it really was 00:05:20.527 --> 00:05:24.275 but, I felt all right about it, ya know? 00:05:27.664 --> 00:05:30.404 You know, it's a job. 00:05:33.266 --> 00:05:36.594 As long as I'm prepared it works out fine.