Aleta Hayes leads a new project called The Chocolate Heads Band (or as I call it The Chocolate Head Bands) that is performing a run of three more shows this weekend at Roble Studio 38 at Stanford University. Madly do tap a panoply of keys on your machine of choice (or so you think, they want you to think) to find out more info or reserve your place or your raisin or reason in the sun. I made a weird flyer based on this photo (of Aleta returning from a hunting trip to find costumes, a la June Omura in Brussels circa 1990) that I hope to have time to run off and then run around with. Aleta among the other debts I due her got me in to see Yoko Ono at Stanford. I met her initially during Stew’s residency on the Pharm or Frame or Firm.
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/drama/people/lecturers.html#Hayes_Aleta
Aleta Hayes of Stanford and The Chocolate Head Bands and a lot of bags
edit to add, May 27: I noted that the LA Times ran an article about the Peter Wegner art installation at the new Business school at Stanford. Cross referencing, I had just visited the Lokey Stem Cell Center and took a few shots of their giant Chihuly. Also, I noted that Irv Weissman was a eulogist at Nathan Oliveira’s memorial and stated that he hoped to put a bronze on campus. What do you Stand For, Stanford? In at least these few cases, you stand for or throw down for, the arts, and we community members thank you.
Further, on the same digression, I notice John W. Gardner aphorisms both at the Jen-Hsun Huang Center (where I was sneaking into Ike’s Sandwiches — center is for the founder of Nvidia who got his Master’s on the Farm) and at Palo Alto City Hall lobby art installation: I am now slightly tempted to apply for the open job listing to be the pr manager of the Gardner Center at Stanford, part of the Education department I think, and clarifying that is perhaps part of the job of the incoming proposed job. John W. Gardner, founder of Common Cause and not to be confused with Chance the Gardener in “Being There.”
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/drama/people/lecturers.html#Hayes_Aleta
called to say she likes the flyers, hand-lettered set of numbered fifteen flyers based on above but with the trees behind her turned into a head-dress and in my mind referencing both claes oldenburg and kara walker…tonite is last chance to check it out.
Cute article on June Omura, longtime Mark Morris Dance stalwart. In Joan Acocella book it lists June in the credits for buying costumes at thrift shops around Brussels when Morris did his famous residency there. I befriended June during my Brooklyn sabbatical in winter, 2001.
http://www.nypress.com/article-21925-what-a-nut_.html
It all circles back: when I was preparing to interview Mary Armentrout I was thinking of the Lars Lubovitch quote about how every body tells a story — i.e. regardless of its deviation from standard form, he was talking about his use of older or non-trained dancers — and pondering the possibility of changing my live direction at age 47 and committing to doing nothing but dance — so far my training is five courses with Ehud Krauss and six or eight with Constance Wise. I never imagined spending 17 years in the music business and wonder what the new trick for this old dog might be. BTW, I passed on pursuing the John Gardner Center pr job (but wrote a cover letter, at least in my head).
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/02/03/chocolate-heads-traverse-the-cosmos/