Tag: 2011
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Orphic Hymn 45
We used the first three lines and the last line of Orphic Hymn 45 in the opening piece this year. Big thanks to Jim for the Greek lessons! [45] Hymn to Dionysos, Bassareos and Triennial Come, blessed Dionysius, various nam’d, Bull-fac’d, begot from Thunder, Bacchus fam’d. Bassarian God, of universal might, Whom swords, and blood,…
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More Good Work
More photos from session 6:
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Stein and Breuer group
Well I woke up an hour before I needed to this morning and in order to keep myself awake, I decided to bake some scones (I also have entirely too much heavy wipping cream in my fridge, and scone making uses up a cup of cream). So my Stein group, who all wrote a lot of nice…
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Session 4: The Motion Alone is Not Enough
In session four we got a little more deeply into some vocal work. We used a line from Beckett’s Footfalls: The motion alone is not enough. Get it? Anyway, the whole room saying “the motion alone is not enough” as though they were chainsaws was pretty interesting. When we asked them to say it as…
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Session 2, Part 1: Bertolt Brecht
Played Red Ball, A/B shaping, and Move on Exhale. Explained target stories and I was chomping at the bit to take suggestions, but we were only explaining the concept today. Next time, I’ll be ready though. Read Brecht and Open Theater. I think Gweth will post about Open Theater later, but I presented Brecht. Bertolt…
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dreamwork/bodywork
by gwethalyn So, it’s my favorite time of the year again! That’s right, time to take my stretchy velvet pants off the mothballs and dust off the K-tag. Thanks to a shorter than usual hiatus as a result of our extended fringin’ season last year, I can hardly believe it’s here already . . .…
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Session 1, Part 2: Our swelling ranks and Cocteau.
by gwethalyn As we began our first session we were a very small group and I was worried that we would have the same problem which plagued us for the past three years, low enrollment. But as we have learned, this process does work with a very small group, so I mustered my optimism and…
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What a Night
So enrollment is up to 14 now and there is talk of more people being possible! This is amazing and totally has exceeded my expectations. Congrats to all who helped with recruiting, this year is off to a great start. Gweth, Josh, Chad, and I met at Radina’s tonight and planned the exercises for the…