Tag: Ntozake Shange
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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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the only gold is music seepin through fog – Or so we butchers always say. – Session 5: shange and Schenkar
I always love doing vocal work on the day we read Joan Schenkar’s The Universal Wolf. There are so many juicy lines to choose from. Today’s choice: “Every Pleasure has its Penalties.” We did some work on this one sounding like sweeping brooms. There were both corn brooms (that’s what they’re called, I looked it…
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Session 5: Dontcha Wanna Be Music, Like Shange? And We Get a Look Inside Foreman’s Head.
We began our readings by looking at “Boogie Woogie Landscapes” by Ntozake Shange. Shange called her works choreopoems and they are full of music, rhythm, and dance. The language is beautiful and poetic but the story revolves around a woman whose story is full of violent racism and the struggle to discover her own self…