Category: 2013
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Early Rehearsals
We’re teaching them the blocking for the opening piece.
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Inadvertent Hillarity
While translating/phonetically spelling the Orphic Hymn to Thundering Zeus for the Growtoski gourp to poetentially use, I had a little too much fun with google translate. To replicate: 1. Paste this into Google Translate: Ζεῦ πάτερ, ὑψίδρομον πυραυγέα κόσμον ἐλαύνων, στράπτων αἰθερίου στεροπῆς πανυπέρτατον αἴγλην, παμμακάρων ἕδρανον θείαις βρονταῖσι τινάσσων, νάμασι παννεφέλοις στεροπὴν φλεγέθουσαν ναίθων·…
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Session 7: Pineapple Umbrella, Ribbon Game, Move with Resistance
Session 7 was amazing. Gweth will have a nice thorough write up on it in the next couple days. It takes her a few hours to write those awesome indepth posts, and she’s not had a few hours to spare since we divided into small groups. Long story short: For session 7 we reviewed authors,…
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Session 6: Everyone Knows a Dance with Carlos and Melting Out of Existence with Miyagawa.
We began session 6 with a one note orchestra, something we’ve been doing in the workshop since my days as a participant. In this exercise everyone simply sits still, inhales and makes a tone on the exhale. You start at as low a volume as possible and with each breath you bring the volume up…
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25 Years of Masks
You may have seen me working on my ghost laptop during sessions and breaks. This is one of the many things I’ve been working on. I’m also been brainstorming MXTW mugs, stickers, totebags, etc. Let me know what you think. I personally want a set of mugs from the years I was in it. It…
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Session 5: Fornes’s Lessons in Tenderness vs the Atomic Bomb and Parks Digs a Hole in the Whole.
We started session 5 off with some serious vocal work. The lines I chose from our later readings proved to be extremely difficult to master, which made them perfect for our diction work and vocal explorations. We worked on the lines “You sockdologizing old man trap.” and “Emergency, oh emergency, please put the great man…
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Session 4: Slow Motion Race or Don’t Let the Puma Get You
So at the very end of session 4, Jim lead the classic favorite: slow motion race. You run as slow as you possibly can, while still giving the illusion of running. Since there were so many, we had to send them off in three groups.
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Session 4: Kennedy’s Impossible Identities and Once Upon a Time with Kondoleon
In session 4 we finally got around to my all time favorite movement exercise: move on exhale. For more info on this exercise see my previous entry. It was clear this group benefited from the starting and stopping work last session, as their stillness and movement were precise from the very beginning. As always, the…
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Session 3: The World in Handke’s Words and Pinter’s Uncovering of the Nakedness We Try to Hide With Words.
We began session 3 with some simple starting and stopping. It seems like such an obvious thing, we can’t live our lives with out starting and stopping hundreds of times a day, we do it so often it becomes automatic, something we are often unaware of. JoAnne Akalaitis says theater is all about stopping and…