by Emily Branden | Sep 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
I feel a duty to write more in these times, to document the subtleties making for good story during the Renaissance—which is coming, right? It’s guaranteed after this level of darkness, has to be. In New Mexico, I’m writing in the dark this morning, doors and windows...
by Emily Branden | May 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Yoga is acting. A born performer, I knew the moment I connected to my breath and moved my body in rhythm to it, I was experiencing the same high and Divine connection I felt on stage. It was a godsend because it meant I could live life without always having to be...
by Emily Branden | Apr 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
It’s interesting, this space, isn’t it? No opportunities for new memories to form, we experience pause and remember a moment not too far back, when life was different and the connection now, so dear. In normal times we would not reflect on it, a lost thought and...
by Emily Branden | Mar 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
If I look back on my adult life…and the scariest of times, they were defining moments of my character. The decision to move to New York, for acting, when my parents wanted me to teach English. The decision to move to New Mexico, for art, when colleagues warned career...
by Emily Branden | Jan 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
My junior year of college I was selected with another female from our theatre department to drive to Chicago for a film starring opposite Claire Danes. I guess they were looking for an unknown, and my professor sent along our set designer to chaperone and drive us...
by Emily Branden | Oct 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Somehow, I hadn’t planned on any of my students dying before me. Like a mother unable to understand outliving her son, losing Manny has been confusing. Mostly because I don’t want to live on this planet without him. I don’t want to live without his truth and...
