Loyce Houlton’s daily notes to company

Loyce Houlton’s daily notes to company

The notes have a good sense of humor mixed with a call for discipline. Loyce often refers to herself as “El Monstroso” as noted in the March 16 note.

Minnesota Dance Theatre Records
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16-Mar-75

4/16/75

Good Morning -

Well - today is young audience day - yippee

Well again - I shall teach you contemporary and try to make your backs and fronts bend round and spiral and sideways and linear and get ready for a Vivaldi - since I have decided it does have choreographic possibilities -

I would like back here for an hour after - Jon and Susan and Andrew and Mariann - for work on the Vivaldi

Then on some occasion - anyone who has been in I Wanta Be a Driver please contact Peter and myself - Peter I was wrong - I think the first count is 9 - mea culpa

There will be many in the Vivaldi - so I would be of good cheer -
But - when I say --- "full out" I mean it - there has been sloppy rehearsing - I can appreciate fatigue but not in rehearsal a constant marking will no longer be tolerated - ---- -

In the young audience programs I would now like to throw the Flower Festival into repertory - so that means I will tell the couple who will do it - so after a few more rehearsals - FULL OUT Andrew and Mariann can take a rest and someone else will do the Intro - first two variations and the adagio

El Monstroso is fatigued so this is it for today----

[Signature: Loyce Houlton]