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Shuffle up the Pictures file, lurkers ours! And...it's....

Bonzuko's own Jenn being flung across the racquetball court by Glen! Old Genki Kai footage. From 2002 or 3ish.

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A posed piece for MSCD Stage Combat Club Nick's BFA portfolio. Club meeting. Good times.

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Here goes the unofficial shuffle and click into the Bonzuko Movement Arts picture archive...

It's Jenn's only foray into the world of the slackline. Very very difficult. The class was called Yoga Rocks! at the Auraria Rec Center, and was a mix of yoga and rock climbing. That day, they added the slack line to the mix. A very cool combination.

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This is Bonzuko's own Jenn as Hippolyta in CSF's 2002 Midsummer. Yes, that dress is as big as it looks. And there are two layers of corsets. One of the very cool costume things about this was the wig--Jenn's long braid went through the back of the wig, which was perfectly matched by the excellent costume techs. The other cool costume thing were the quick changes. Can you imagine quick changing out of this into a fluorescent fairy costume?

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It's time again for a dip into the Bonzuko photo archive, ready?

Ah, yes: Jenn recently rediscovered the Play Ground Theatre company through the wonders of facebook, and so the pictures from her various play work with them are popping up everywhere. This one is from In The Night Room, a take on Where the Wild Things are. This is Jenn doing a big X-jump as she introduces herself as the "funny monster," Fudrucker. She was 16 in this pic.

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It's time again, for a randomly-clicked-on picture from the Bonzuko movement archives...drumroll please...and it's...

The Sword Day of the two-day stage combat workshop Jenn did for the 12-year-olds doing Twelfth Night last summer! Last summer's Advanced Stage Combat students had the opportunity to help out. This pic is Jenn and Ken demonstrating the steel swords for the kids.

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From the Bonzuko movement image archives,

today it's Jenn in the 1996 production of CSF's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The director, Joel Fink, made the whole play into a 1950's era dream of lead character Hermia. Sort of a "Hermia in Wonderland." The mechanicals wore bowling shirts, and Puck had an Elvis pompadour and silver leather jacket. We four fairies had giant poofy prom dresses and puppet heads with bog wings. We sang 1950s radio style and could blink the puppets' long eyelashes as we did so. This is Jenn as Peaseblossom.

Why is this a movement pic? Joel would ask we fairies to imagine we were little floating things like the cottony stuff that always falls from the trees here in the summer. It was a challenge to have that quality and be wearing such a large dress, unwieldy wings, tight corset and a heavy puppet head on our arm. And heels. We tended to sound more like cattle as we skipped onstage than cotton, but can you blame us? :)

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It's time to dig into the movement image archives...hmmmm what do we have here? Ah!

I know a sledgehammer isn't the first weapon one thinks of when one thinks of a ninja, but a sometime-member of the Stage Combat Club (Aaron) had this realistic-looking-yet-light-plastic version that was as delightful as a rubber chicken. So a ninja will use any weapon at hand. Image: Aaron begging for mercy, Jenn as ninja bringing the hammer down. From MSCD Stage Combat Club 2009. Doesn't it make you want to join?