Category: 2010
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Session Two: Cocteau / Artaud Day! Has a Better Day Ever Existed?
First we read The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower by Jean Cocteau. In this spectacle Coceau was trying to reveal mundane life as absurd. Basically, a wedding party has lunch on the Eiffel Tower, but they are interrupted by hunters hunting ostriches, pompous guests giving speeches and telling tales of their times in Africa, mirages…
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Session One: Who’s Your Dada? and Madame Rachilde Wears the Pants.
Day one started out with the usual stuff, stretching, breathing, exploring the space, shaping and moving, discussions of the work we’re about to embark on and the respect for each other and for the work needed among the group to be successful. We read “The Transparent Doll” by Madame Rachilde. Rachilde was a member of…
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
It’s hot and humid outside, I’ve been burning rubber several times a week on interstate 70 between Lawrence and Manhattan, and all kinds of muscles I forgot existed for the last 46 weeks are insisting, not only that they really do exist, but also that I have been abusing them. All these signs together can…