Tag: dada
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MXTW 2018 is Starting Strong!
We have 18 passionate participants and four dedicated directors who are already three sessions in to this year’s theatrical adventure. he died saying that farce is a poetic element like sorrow for example then they sang crocrocrocrocrocrocro We have tried our hands at performing some Dada and discussed the dramatic tension of Beckett’s later minimalistic…
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Session 1: Madame Rachilde and the DADAists
Well, we’re all lined up to have the largest group ever this summer. They are 27 strong and already a force to be reckoned with! We did some moving through the space imagining we were surrounded by bubbles that bounced off each other and getting anywhere was well neigh impossible. But the excitement of the…
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“HEY! DO YOU WANNA FEEL SO ENERGETIC!?”
It’s late. I’m editing photos. Brandon is here with me too, and he told me to make “a really bad gothic photo that is much too dark and grungy”. I was editing this one, so I used it, but I couldn’t make it look bad, but when I made it dark the colors got wonky,…
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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 One: Cocteau’s Microscope and the Logic of Dada
I must admit, I approached our initial meeting this year with great excitement but also a little trepidation. You see we’ve had a bit of an enrollment boom, to put it mildly. Last year we had 16 in the workshop, this year 30 people applied. Very exciting, to be sure, but a bit of a different…
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2013 Reader
Jean Cocteau: Wedding on the Eiffel Tower Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes: The Mute Canary Tristan Tzara: The First Celestial Adventure of Mr. Antipyrine, Fire Extinguisher Bertoldt Brecht: The Elephant Calf Jerzy Grotowski: Akropolis Peter Handke: Self Accusation and Prophecy Harold Pinter: Landscape, Silence, and Night Adrienne Kennedy: A Rat’s Mass and Lesson in a Dead Language Harry Kondoleon: The Brides Maria Irene Fornes: The Danube Suzan Lori Parks: The…
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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…