Posts by Dan Szczesny
Our hosts are walking us behind the scenes and stage at OVO at SNHU Arena, just hours before the first show in a four-day series is about to begin. It’s a small city back there, as each production requires hundreds of performers, admins, crew, technicians, designers and musicians.
At some point during her recent week-long summer camp program at NH Audubon, Little Bean had mastered the art of the back bend move. That’s the gymnastic move where you bend over backward, down to your hands and flip your whole body back.
Thanks to some finagling, phone calls and emails sent to the proper places, Manchester Ink Link Kid Reporter Little Bean landed a back stage tour of Cirque du Soleil’s latest show at SNHU Arena. Called OVO, or Portuguese for egg, our tour guide proudly let us know that this was the only Cirque du Soleil show about bugs!
Those marks don’t go away. They ebb and flow, as they did for me, until Little Bean came along. The difference, as she begins her own musical journey, is that she doesn’t have to make this trip alone. This adventure can be ours, if that’s what she wants.
A few months ago, as my daughter and I scanned through the YouTube channels of some of her favorite young rock bands like The Warning and Plush, one band with an intriguing name kept coming up in the comments: Freeze the Fall.
From out in the driveway where I had just pulled in, I can hear her practicing. The sounds of my daughter’s electric piano pushes through the closed windows. I recognize it instantly. She’s playing Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.”
O P I N I O N TRANSCENDENTAL DAD By Dan Szczesny Little Bean and her fellow third-grade friend have
In our short time together Little Bean and I have explored many things – caves, towers, deep woods, sand pits, foundations. This is our first shipwreck.
This time of the year, the couple days before new year, hits different for me since Little Bean was born. I’ve never written in detail about those days when she was born, and I won’t now. I suspect I never really will – the irony of not writing about one of the most frightening events in my life and writing a parenting and family column at the same time does not escape me.
She’s changing. She’s moving into her own sense of how she wants to live. I doubt she’d be able to verbalize this growth, but she’s becoming, well, her.