o much fun with a large group. I've slightly re-structured the piece and added 2 extra sections. The singing is great. I hope that the pop songs after that will be as effective as I imagine them and I also hope that I will be able to get the 5 specials that I imagine... Shirley and Jordan's chasing-the-hand dance it cool, but we decided to leave out the talking in that part because it's too much. Soz and Sherman do a similar task based duet thing, but this time Soz will do the talking while trying to engage with Sherman who is popping and crunching. The group impro section was also pretty cool, I think I'll try it with 7 people... I imagine these 3 sections happening one at a time in different specials while Whitney Husten is belting 'I will always love you'... Hope it works and does not fall in the slapstick side off funny. I'm trying to achieve irony here... in other words if these 3 vignettes were accompanied by music more fitting to the action they would probably be evocative or appealing, but to this song they seem trivial, pathetic, funny... Well I hope so anyway... We will find out on Saturday - that's the last rehearsal, then tech on Wednesday then performance on Thursday. WoooohooOooo!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Looking good
Last week the two groups met for the first time. It was a great rehearsal. We were in the big studio and almost everyone was there. I spent about the first 20 minutes talking about the work and my reasons for wanting to explore pedestrian movement and improvisation structures. I'm glad I took the time to do that because it's always better to perform when you understand what's going on. Then we did some warm-up/zone in exercises. It was s
o much fun with a large group. I've slightly re-structured the piece and added 2 extra sections. The singing is great. I hope that the pop songs after that will be as effective as I imagine them and I also hope that I will be able to get the 5 specials that I imagine... Shirley and Jordan's chasing-the-hand dance it cool, but we decided to leave out the talking in that part because it's too much. Soz and Sherman do a similar task based duet thing, but this time Soz will do the talking while trying to engage with Sherman who is popping and crunching. The group impro section was also pretty cool, I think I'll try it with 7 people... I imagine these 3 sections happening one at a time in different specials while Whitney Husten is belting 'I will always love you'... Hope it works and does not fall in the slapstick side off funny. I'm trying to achieve irony here... in other words if these 3 vignettes were accompanied by music more fitting to the action they would probably be evocative or appealing, but to this song they seem trivial, pathetic, funny... Well I hope so anyway... We will find out on Saturday - that's the last rehearsal, then tech on Wednesday then performance on Thursday. WoooohooOooo!
o much fun with a large group. I've slightly re-structured the piece and added 2 extra sections. The singing is great. I hope that the pop songs after that will be as effective as I imagine them and I also hope that I will be able to get the 5 specials that I imagine... Shirley and Jordan's chasing-the-hand dance it cool, but we decided to leave out the talking in that part because it's too much. Soz and Sherman do a similar task based duet thing, but this time Soz will do the talking while trying to engage with Sherman who is popping and crunching. The group impro section was also pretty cool, I think I'll try it with 7 people... I imagine these 3 sections happening one at a time in different specials while Whitney Husten is belting 'I will always love you'... Hope it works and does not fall in the slapstick side off funny. I'm trying to achieve irony here... in other words if these 3 vignettes were accompanied by music more fitting to the action they would probably be evocative or appealing, but to this song they seem trivial, pathetic, funny... Well I hope so anyway... We will find out on Saturday - that's the last rehearsal, then tech on Wednesday then performance on Thursday. WoooohooOooo!
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