Artists & Their Coffee: Amy Smith
Name: Amy Smith
Company: Headlong Dance Theater
Artistic occupation: Co-director of above [and choreographer and dancer]
First experience with coffee that made you understand coffee: Living in Seattle in 1990, and having espresso for the first time. In the mornings I would drink a quadruple shot of espresso and then go to my shitty job at a record store.
Coffee you drink at home: Starbucks from the ACME, or if we are lucky Blue Bottle (from SF) or Bucklyn (from Brooklin, ME).
How you like your coffee: Half and half, no sugar
Average no. of cups per day: 1 .
Fave coffee shop: Old school = La Colombe, New School = Ultimo.
Fave fancy coffee drink: Dry cappuccino.
What’s the most inappropriate thing a barista has ever said to you? “You look tired.”
Enough about coffee, what are you doing now? Getting ready for Desire, a new trio for Andrew Simonet, David Brick, and myself, directed by Elizabeth Stevens. May 4-6 at the Performance Garage.