The plan was to go to the Netherlands. My husband is Dutch and he was having some health issues, we needed help and we wanted to be close to family, so how did we end up in Colombia? We made the decision in an instant, something happened and I suddenly thought, what about Colombia? I have family there and our savings will go for longer in South America, the next day we bought tickets and here we are, living in a little country house in the middle of rural Colombia, with no plans. I had been living in Europe for seven years so coming back won’t be easy but we will see. I miss Tübingen sometimes, I met wonderful people there, but Tübingen was also the place were my husband got incredibly ill, so it is good to go and start a new chapter in our lives. We are well, happy and resting.

And so my time with Himmelstänzerin ends. This was one of the funnest jobs I have ever had. In the past year I got to perform sixteen meters high up hanging from a tree, in a church, at a German castle… I performed at weddings and benefits and festivals and I taught many, many people children and adults. I learn a lot, I think I am a better teacher now than when I started and I have become a lot more confident as a performer. Thank you Eva.

This has been with out a doubt the coolest job ever and I really wasn’t expecting it. When Himmelstänzerin Kompany asked me what I thought about being part of an evangelical televised service I said “they would have to pay me a lot of money” That was incredibly prejudice of me. I am not a Christian and I didn’t know if I was going to feel comfortable in that atmosphere, but in the end it was not uncomfortable at all and very cool indeed. We arrived on Wednesday the 30th of May to rehearse. To hung the silks they had build a scaffold all to way to the top. I went up and rigged the silks my self, it was a 12 meter hanging point and a concrete floor so I had to make sure I felt safe, plus the hole thing was going to be shown on live TV, it would’t be good it I died in front of all of those people. The security person had the same concern, he didn’t know what to do with himself, but I new I was safe, although it is true that you never know.

Nehrener is a very small town close to Tübingen and I am here surrounded by very German Germans. I feel fully integrated into German society now, I can hold a conversation in German and I am starting to take part of this small events for people who really live here. I used to spend most of my time with exchange students, but little by little by studding the language and really through my work I get to see more and more of this country.

Last year in August my silks teacher injured her shoulder and asked me to star teaching for her and to take over her performance work while she recovered, since then we have been teaching together, but now she has to have a surgery and so she has ask me to take over completely for all the regular lessons I will be teaching three classes all on my own. This is an amazing opportunity, I am already planing most of the lessons and I am really exited for this new responsibility.

I am outside the building, climbing on top of a crystal dome to reach the rigging point, it is cold and I am so very sick. I can see below me the pool and people swimming, drinking and relaxing. I am in SchwabenQuellen a kind of spa with saunas and pools and a gym. This performance is a funny one. I am to perform three times to music I don’t know, it is an improvisation, my friend Carsten will play the sitar and I have to dance and we have to somehow feel each other to know when the show is finish. I have to say I found the sitar a very hard instrument to follow, but I do my thing I do bits of my routine and in the end everyone looks please. I am so tired, I know I am not 100% and the changes in temperature aren’t helping but I get through it, thank you adrenaline it carried me through and it all went well, tomorrow I will sleep all day.

My friend Natalia invited me to come and teach a workshop for de theater group Trastorno Obsesivo Teatral. They are a small independent cultural association based in Bogotá Colombia. This used to be my theater group many years ago when I still lived in Colombia before I went to drama school. I accepted, this would be the second time I taught this group, last year I received a similar invitation and I had a great time, I was looking forward to build on the progress we had made the year before. How ever things didn’t go as planed.

One of the funnest things of making God of Carnage was figuring out how to make the vomit scene. It turned out great with some stunning results!

I saw a Colombian production of God of Carnage a long time ago and it must have really made an impression because when I started to think which play I would like to do next it was the first thing that came to mind. After making Blithe Spirit it felt really good to direct something contemporary and it was a new challenge for me to direct a play that is basically four people in a room talking, but it isn’t that at all, Yasmina Reza’s text is beautiful and soon we discovered that the play is not still *as in not moving? at all, it is full of movement. I had amazing actors and the audience loved it.

I am performing at a castle on the Island of Manau. I never thought I would be saying that.

We made the news!

I am in my wedding dress in the middle of a field shooting a movie with Hugo Reis, of course I am. When Hugo asked me if I would want to be in his movie I immediately said yes, he has the weirdest ideas and because of that it is always fun to see the world through his eyes. We spent the first day walking around Tübingen trying to find the perfect location. Initially, Hugo wanted me to be in a field surrounded by sheep, but we weren’t able to arrange that, instead we ended up surrounded by wheat in the middle of a storm. I am never bored with Hugo.

I am up in the air again. My teacher Eva was supposed to do this performance but she hurt her shoulder so she gave it to me, and now here I am staring at a huge tree. I had never performed so high up, 16 meters high to be exact, the rigging was done by a tree surgeon and I performed a tango as part of the literary-musical forest walk “Königin Charlotte und Bebenhausen”. Today was another first.

My silks teacher Eva has convinced me to perform on a street festival in Tübingen. For the first time after more than a year I got in-font of people to do something. It was a lot of fun. Silks is something I am still discovering and I am sure I have a long way to go I am happy to keep learning.

It has been more than a year since I was on a stage. Moving to a new country has proven to be very difficult and then when I was feeling like I was getting the hang of things I had a stroke, that was last year. My body changed, particularly my hands, and for a long time I was afraid of my body, and then I saw on Facebook that this workshop was happening and on a whim I decided to go.

It happened on a Tuesday, I was naked in my bed, my body still tingling. My husband was taking a shower and I reach for my phone I grabbed the phone and tried to open the cover but I didn’t manage, I couldn’t do the movement. I tried to stand up and my body fell down. Everything became like from another world. I couldn’t see normally, it was blurry like the world was in another place and I was in bed naked and I didn’t belong with the things that were around me.

Just pictures of us fooling around before the premier.

In the last scene of Blithe Spirit, the ghosts get to throw things around, which required a bit of technical wizardry.

For the first time ever I am directing a play in Germany. I am doing this at the Brechtbau Theatre: a small theatre in Tübingen that supports amateur productions. This place gives me the opportunity to learn how to create a play from scratch. I have chosen a number of eager actors, now I have to put together this classic farce all by my self, I am responsible for everything and that is very exiting but also very scary.I love the idea of making this play, it is a farce full of silly jokes and physical comedy.