We rehearsed the cake duet today. Lesley will be dancing with Nicky because Charl is on a film shoot. Lesley and Nicky have great chemistry. We started off with some basic contact improvisation principles... moving around the space with changing points of contact... The I went on to the same process that I went through with Brittany and Cameron... except that we did in an hour what they did in 4 rehearsals.. anyway it worked... we started off with each person trying to catch hold of one part of the other persons body (head, hand, chest, waist) as the other person backs away... then we combined this with the contact and found ways to move smoothly between the two intentions... from there we began with the feeding and talking. Today we used strawberries. I was cool, less messy, but I like the mess. I think we'll use a slice of cake with a big strawberry on top. So then we layered the feeding, talking, contact.... which eventually becomes smothering... then the chasing... contact... rough smothering.... chasing.... contact...exhausted...
Oh and the Chopin too.
I like it!
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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