The first of the forthcoming "sort of" book, Falling Fown: Tidbits.
This is an excerpt of the forward.
HOW TO CREATE A SHAM DANCE COMPANY IN 6 EASY STEPS:
1. Create multiple myspace accounts: 1 for your sham dance company, and at least six for it's fake supporters.
2. Post a mother-lode of photos of yourself and a six-page bio of yourself on the front page of your company's profile. Be sure to list every job you've ever had been fired from had.
3. Use the "Blog" feature to start unfunny drama.
4. Using your other fake accounts, post multiple comments to yourself saying complimentary things like "U r so kewl!!!!11one!" since no one IRL will do this.
5. ???
6. Profit!
Rewind to December of 2007, I was auditioning dancers for my dance company at that time. I suppose this was to a ploy to derive me from focusing on my company and the administrative side of it. This was written by a disgruntled employee that resigned a year prior. In going back further, in September of 2007; my dancers resigned and I published the news via myspace. While in doing so, I made the mistake of venting publicly. My former employees begun posting blogs and comments to each other slandering, harassing, and falsely accusing me of my career/profession. This went on for several months until I stopped commenting on what they had to say {after reading what I was writing about}. I had a long talk with a collegue of mine and she said to me, “when you give into what they are writing about you, you are defending their lies. Don’t write anything related to them and it will cease.” I stopped in July of 2007. Two former employees continued to write things about me to distract me once; in August of 2007 and December of 2007. One even went as far to write a blog and asked “how did you meet me?” The other answered and the reply was something similar to… “at RDC’s audition’s. I just thought does she know how much of a load of crap this is? Oh well, she’ll have to just suffer.”
I also found an article written about me; but it was full of slanderous and distaste; meaning not one word of it was true. This was also written to distract me and make me angry to give into this ex-employees’s tantrum’s. In 2008 {May/June}, a former dancer's employee left a comment on my professional blog accusing me of impersonating my former employee.
After realizing this person was not going to just let sleeping dogs lay, I released an Artist’s Statement via my website.
