Once again, a back-dated post at 1am. Closing two chapters of the life department- last class of the quarter today, and packing to move out of The Creamery tomorrow. The second has some direct bearing on the art life, as it was supposed to be a major godsend in terms of mounting performance pieces regularly and at zero cost. For those who aren't familiar, the Creamery in West Oakland is a live-work space that inludes two (at least two) performance rooms as well as a bar, a gallery area, a recording studio-in-progress and various other unbelievable perks which, alas are in too much disrepair and under the sway of too many people's whims (did I mention it also has rooms for 17 residents?) to make it workable at the moment. If I have any concrete "goals" in my life it, they begin and end at owning a building like this (if there is anything "like this" anywhere else at all). Ah well, que sera.
Had a two-hour plus meeting with dancer/collaborators on Study 2013 that was very scattered but also very generative. I've come in some sense to be the person the group relies on to articulate the budding plans. The whole process is very interesting and inspiring, because no one has decided to go off and create the piece while nayone is gone, but instead we do it almost all in discussion between colaborators. This process is both frustrating, because little happens between meetings, fascinating, because every idea is immediately interpreted by a group.
I'll give you a peek at some of the notes i took today:
'an interrogation of the notion of The End Times- not simply that we interrogate it and report results, but that we perform an interrogation in which the audience is implicated, or even co-participant.
Abby: we need some text, some movement, some music.
Ava: Interest and audience participation- ways that aren’t intrusive, which lead them organically into a place they wouldn’t otherwise have gone.
-Simple methods: the audience has to walk to follow performance, the audience can change their perspective to see the piece.
Ideas: use concentration/dispersion of audience to represent global change (also cued by audience answers to questions).
Your positioning i relevant to your answers to questions.
Obscuring vision (scrims, etc.).
Ability to see other groups, their reactions
many events happening in various degrees of visibility, which slowly come to focus. movement cues start to coordinate. a cause at location A becomes registered effect at location B, tighten the chain so that it’s obvious.
deconstructed space-v-guided space
what about a 20-min. loop (“like a haunted house”), where
stage 1: interview
stage 2: apocalypse
stage 3: reality, with a plant to remind us of part of the piece
“The lesson is that the Aocalypse is always just a chance- how do we live with it”.
from Dhira’s exercise:
“NPR
Kresge
help
challenge
“ah-vee”
Scott
I
AIDS
meet
cities
this
AIDS”
can we make a movement from dispersion to concentration (of the audience) and atomization to cohesion (of the information)
force entrances
For me: create a rehearsal script.'
Had a two-hour plus meeting with dancer/collaborators on Study 2013 that was very scattered but also very generative. I've come in some sense to be the person the group relies on to articulate the budding plans. The whole process is very interesting and inspiring, because no one has decided to go off and create the piece while nayone is gone, but instead we do it almost all in discussion between colaborators. This process is both frustrating, because little happens between meetings, fascinating, because every idea is immediately interpreted by a group.
I'll give you a peek at some of the notes i took today:
'an interrogation of the notion of The End Times- not simply that we interrogate it and report results, but that we perform an interrogation in which the audience is implicated, or even co-participant.
Abby: we need some text, some movement, some music.
Ava: Interest and audience participation- ways that aren’t intrusive, which lead them organically into a place they wouldn’t otherwise have gone.
-Simple methods: the audience has to walk to follow performance, the audience can change their perspective to see the piece.
Ideas: use concentration/dispersion of audience to represent global change (also cued by audience answers to questions).
Your positioning i relevant to your answers to questions.
Obscuring vision (scrims, etc.).
Ability to see other groups, their reactions
many events happening in various degrees of visibility, which slowly come to focus. movement cues start to coordinate. a cause at location A becomes registered effect at location B, tighten the chain so that it’s obvious.
deconstructed space-v-guided space
what about a 20-min. loop (“like a haunted house”), where
stage 1: interview
stage 2: apocalypse
stage 3: reality, with a plant to remind us of part of the piece
“The lesson is that the Aocalypse is always just a chance- how do we live with it”.
from Dhira’s exercise:
“NPR
Kresge
help
challenge
“ah-vee”
Scott
I
AIDS
meet
cities
this
AIDS”
can we make a movement from dispersion to concentration (of the audience) and atomization to cohesion (of the information)
force entrances
For me: create a rehearsal script.'
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