An introduction

From my handy Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:

geste also gest n [MF geste,
fr. L gestus, fr. gerere] (14c) 1. archaic:
DEPORTMENT 2. archaic: GESTURE

I hope to have some fun on this blog thinking about gesture and the way it works on the stage, in art and in life. I've been working with historical approaches to gesture in opera for a while now--especially staging baroque opera, which is probably the music closest to my heart--and I'm hoping this will be a forum for me to do some writing and thinking about my work and what inspires me.