12.22.08 
1 // You may need more sleep than you think.
Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were "well rested" actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person slumbered 10 hours a night.
2 // Night owls are more creative.
Artists, writers, and coders typically fire on all cylinders by crashing near dawn and awakening at the crack of noon. In one study, "evening people" almost universally slam-dunked a standardized creativity test. Their early-bird brethren struggled for passing scores.
3 // Rising early is stressful.
The stress hormone cortisol peaks in your blood around 7 am. So if you get up then, you may experience tension. Grab some extra Zs! You'll wake up feeling less like Bert, more like Ernie.
' "And a further thing, Mr. Mirror," the can went on. "Since you reflect chaos and instability as objectively as you reflect order, since you reflect the novelty and variety that humankind's institutions seem designed to suppress and deny, are you not a dangerous agent of truth? I mean, I know that magicians employ you in their trickery, but isn't uncompromising realism your forte? If humans erect institutions to conceal the unruly aspects of their own minds, aren't you mirrors sort of like holes in the fortress walls? Are you not signposts pointing away from rationality and standardization? Because you chaps show it all- good and evil, beauty and ugliness, balance and disarray-with equal emphasis. Or am I making you out to be subversive when actually you're only blasé? No offense intended, sir, in either case." '
photo by Enoch Chan
MASON/RHYNES PRODUCTIONS
ARTISTS SHOWCASE
Sunday, January 11th 7:45-10:45 pm
Alvin Ailey Studios
405 W. 55th Street (at 9th Avenue)
Directions
Featured artists:
8:05-8:20 Global soul artist Tamara Wellons performs selections from her recent house/jazz albums
8:25-8:40 Gesel Mason presents excerpts from her NDP-supported solo project, "NO BOUNDARIES: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers."
8:45-9:00 EDGEWORKS Dance Theater, an all-black, all-male dance company from Washington, DC, presents excerpts from the award-winning "Cold Case" and NDP-supported "the determining factor"
9:05-9:20: New York-based INSPIRIT, a dance company performs excerpts from their recent premiere, and solo work by artistic director Christal Brown.
9:25-9:40 Story Tapestries: Arianna Ross presents a cutting-edge performance in partnership with Contradiction Dance that fuses the power of music, poetry, dance, and story.
Showcase only artists:
9:45-9:55 Maryland-based dance company VTDance/Vincent E. Thomas performs excerpts from his Kennedy Center-commissioned work, "Witness"
10:00-10:10: Nursha Project Theater™/Micia Mosely performs excerpts of her solo show, "Where My Girls At? A Comedic Look at Black Lesbians"
10:15-10:25: Former City Dance Ensemble member REGINALD COLE/In Concert presents solo work and hip hop/spoken word artist Aysha Upchurch/Life, Rhythm, Move Project perform excerpts from the Kennedy Center commissioned work, "Am I On?"
10:30-10:40 Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company presents a fusion of modern dance and traditional Indian dance forms.
Adults • Teens • Children
Creative Movement • Pre-Ballet • Ballet • Modern • Jazz • Tap • Hip-Hop • Stories in Motion • The Blend • Taiji • Poi • Hoop Dance • Tribal Belly Fusion • A Different Drum • Dance Afire • Mini Shock • Future Shock
7014 Westmoreland Ave, ste A
Takoma Park, MD 20912
