This project was by and large the most tragic project of all time. I had so many ideas for my final ACTLab project, all of which fell through in some sort of tragic way. In fact, this happened so many times that I decided to do my final project on how nothing was coming together.

So, somehow we ACTLabbies (I am not exactly sure of the origin, but I think this is it) came up with this term "tapdance." Well, I guess we didn't really come up with the term itself, but we have a new meaning. See, Katherine Shanley couldn't come up with anything to do with some footage of a band she had filmed, so she decided to tapdance to one of their songs. Somehow in the creative world that is the ACTLab, "tapdance" morphed into something you could do when you don't really know what else you can muster up.

So, I decided to make an audio piece in which it sounded as if I was talking to myself, (i.e. audio talking, me talking, audio talking, me talking) and then end up tapdancing.

This presented two problems.

One: My (now ex) boyfriend couldn't come to the project day (they were originally a different day, but UT decided to close because it was cold. Weird.) so I didn't have anyone to run sound. I ended up having to perform from the computer. Also, iTunes was broken, so I had to use a program that required you to physicially start and stop it, versus just some space bar action.

Two: I HAVE NO IDEA HOW ON EARTH TO TAPDANCE. I cannot dance at all. Well, except for bootie-dance. Because I have a big bootie.

All in all, it was an excellent idea with awful execution.

Kind of like my past 5 boyfriends.