Max and Courtney are these two guys, see, and they got their hands on an old book, Dick Smith’s Do-It-Yourself Monster Make-Up, published in 1965, and they’re going through it and doing all the projects. It’s just too much fun!
You can follow their efforts at http://makemonsters.blogspot.com/. I myself have them in my Sage RSS feed so I can keep up with their progress.
Meeting, 5/18/06
We met in Nan & Billy’s basement.
We decided to play with Marc’s Show/Recollect/Recapitulation model. First, Melissa told of an episode in her 1st grade, in which, as part of a school-wide thematic unit on Charlotte’s Web, the principal was to kiss a pig. Continue reading “Meeting, 5/18/06”
Telling the Truth: another dog
The first time Dale related his story, it prompted this:
Another dog…
It was summer and I was eight. I walked up the hill to my best friend Rusty’s house. It was late, late for summer. I know it was late because the image of a sunset will soon be crucial. Continue reading “Telling the Truth: another dog”
Improv fun
The group Improv Everywhere does some entertaining stuff. Some of their “missions” make me uncomfortable, skirting arrest as they sometimes do. But this one, Suicide Jumper, has a lot to admire.
Meeting, 5/11/06
[filed by Billy and Nan]
Kim and Michael, Craig and his son Michael, Billy, Nan and William, all met tonight at our house. We had an active session of truth-telling and some general discussion on what the group is doing and has done (nothing new here).
The floor is now open for discussion.
Playing in the Stream
In a recent e-mail I suggested that streams of comments often read like electric exchanges in a piece of dramatic poetry. This, I proferred, was a good thing. Such a good thing, I think, that I would like to take it a bit further: why not use our comment streams as opportunities to rehearse and work out material for our performance pieces? Continue reading “Playing in the Stream”
Meeting, 5/4/06
We met again in the basement room of the Newmans.
We discussed Marc’s ideas about how our Telling the Truth exercises could be molded into a performance that would not be simply an evening of monologues. To wit: Continue reading “Meeting, 5/4/06”
Meeting, 4/26/06
We met in the basement of Nan and Billy Newman. (Thanks, Newmans!)
After warmups, we dealt with some housekeeping: Continue reading “Meeting, 4/26/06”
Strange things from the past
Contact Improvisation Workshop
Attention adventurous performers,
Saturday May 6, from 2 to 4, Newnan School of Dance will offer a workshop introducing Contact Improvisation to interested dancers and actors and citizens (and as of this writing, it’s free). Annette Tomassi will teach it.
What is contact improvisation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_improvisation
It was invented in the late sixties by Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith, dancers connected, at that time, with the Judson Street/Grand Union group in NYC-(one of Twyla’s early stomping grounds, too). –Paxton trained as a gymnast and a Merce Cunningham company member. Nutshell definition: the active and passive giving and taking of weight with Newton’s Universe having the last word. Continue reading “Contact Improvisation Workshop”