1998-2002 – The Hallelujah Project

Where to start? Fifteen cities, fifteen projects, so much happened for so many over such a short amount of time. There were the dances but there was also all the extra things people did alongside the dances: the man who built me a cherry picker so I could be above the dancing in Eastport, Maine, on the dawn of the millennium, and the boat builders who built the lanterns that went out to sea, and the set designers who balanced a dining table fully set off the roof of the Walker Art Museum, and the overflow house in the new school auditorium in Deer Isle, Maine (where, if you compared attendance by percentage of population, it would be as if two million people showed up for a performance in NYC), and the incredible food backstage in Tucson as the various groups brought in their cultural treats, the amazing blessing that Daniel Preston gave to all 2000 of us in the theater at the University of Arizona, and the audience member who stood up during the performance at the Flynn Theater in Burlington (VT) and asked his partner to be in a civil union with him…