Rehearsal Notes 2/25/10

SPACE PROJECT REHEARSAL
Thursday February 25, 2010
Milepost 5
Liz, Jonathan, Maesie, Julie, Faith

1. Tech set up 5 Min
2. Warm Ups 35 Min
3. Etudes:

Faith: Julie's faces forward seated on chair in white dress. Faith stands w back to us on mic, also in white dress, speaks text from 'Elie Wezel' Night with back to us, till the end.

NOTES: Liked the text [Night, Elie Wiesel]. Liked the stillness of it, liked the fact that they were dressed as twins, in old clothes.
Repetition of text was interesting, because it was different... could have turned off in any direction of narrative, felt like.

Julie: Julie speaks back to us on mic, seated, while light shines on Maesie and Liz do simple domestic gentle tasks. Text from John Burroughs.

NOTES: Simpleness of the actions was strong. There was a sense of something 'not happening' but instead meditating on this theme. Struck me as naturalism...something within that to play off of or take in another direction.

Maesie: Pompeii. Figures on the ground moving as flashlight roves and audience is seeing different people in different positions, while music plays.

NOTES: disturbing when there's suddenly two people -- shifting in dark, a surprise. Releasing only tiny pieces of something, not knowing what the big picture is -- working with lights so it takes longer to understand what's happening. Distracted by lyrics -- related to theme? Music - epic, surprising, effective - at end chorus of people singing, a surprise after immobility? Playing with different body postures -- dead or alive? visually not normal -- work on finding a posture that's really disturbing, awful to look at. Questions: roving, how to control people's experience -- a fake intermission.

Throughlines so far:
- overarching feeling of coldness & distance. Maybe we should play with other qualities in other worlds? Or go deeper into the coldness?
- religious overtone -- spiritual / mysticism
- journey -- of the mind, or on your feet. how many journeys can one go on?
- text: delivered straight ahead, read or spoken (not dialogued or impassioned?)
- maybe next time: assign creating a warm world?

4. Duos/Trio Assignments:

7 Minute Pieces

Assignment:
THEME New Worlds (driven by escapism)
TEXT : Mixture of Faith's etude 'Elie Wezel', Julie's (JG Ballard) and Maesie's song
RULES: Try to stick to theme strictly. Pick ONE good moment from last notes list
GESTURE: Use of two, to be decide

Maesie, Marc, Liz: enter and rub their faces
NOTES:
Moment: Slow motion
Aspect: Face Rubbing

Faith, Julie
NOTES:
Moment: Faith running down and screaming, after Julie does it quietly
Aspect: Disembodied voice

7 Minute Redo: TO KEEP!!

Maesie, Marc, Liz:
- Liz rubbing her face intensely and blocking her face, super aggressive while Marc bangs his head and hair wildly
- Unison rubbing, then one person stops, observes and joins back in
- Last moment of to the ground tableau, everyone is in a kind of horrific bent shape

Julie, Faith:
- Length of time that it took in quiet, before scream so it was real shocker. Length of time of scream.
- Return to the slow motion by Faith after the scream... seemed like it picked up where it left off.