Day 3
I've failed to post for three days, with no excuse other than having had absolutely no time to do any writing since Wednesday (by which time I was already a day behind). Anyway, it's now Saturday but I'll try and do a resume of Wednesday to Friday and also write an overview of the first week.
On Wednesday we were joined by five performers - Keith Macpherson, Ewan Macdonald, Nico Major, Pauline Lockhart and Kirstin Murray. In an attempt to reflect the first couple of days, Clare had suggested an exercise to start the morning (see Day 2 entry), so the original 10 had each brought in our 3 words or phrases and we started to build up a mind-map style picture on the floor. There were some words exactly the same, some very different, but all helped us to create a memory resource and reflection - Clare photographed the map and I'll try and post it here next week. Luckily, the actors didn't immediately start to edge nervously towards the door and so we did a Marisa-devised exercise based around a few of the ideas that had been articulated as starting points for the six projects - measuring, observing, instructing, repeating.
I sent people off in three groups to start work. I gave them a single word of guidance "Definition" and a single Oblique Strategy card (Brian Eno's aids to creativity - if you've never used them, google the phrase and discover their joys). I worked with Ewan, Debbie, Tristan and Charles on Walden - my oblique strategy turned out to be "Take a deep breath". It was fascinating as only Ewan and I have actually read the book so everyone else's responses were immediate and unprepared. I described the book as best I could, read excerpts and talked about the many potential pitfalls of both one-person shows and literary adaptations. From the discussion, we defined some starting points. Marisa worked with Dave and the other 4 actors - hopefully one of them will post about this. I asked Clare, Ronan and Rosalind to spend half the time on Clare's idea and half on Ronan's.
Ronan had had thoughts about using a chorus and was interested in Dave's ideas about moving sound so in the afternoon, Marisa and Dave worked with him and the actors on images and sound. They produced some fascinating experiments in live surround sound with the chorus moving freely around the studio (studio 3 at Dance Base is very large and was perfect for this). Ronan's central character is loosely based around Jeanie - a teenager who was found in Los Angeles having been kept in a single room for the whole of her life by her parents - and he was wanting to explore the idea of the sounds that she might hear (which would probably sound completely abstract as she had no reference points).
On Wednesday we were joined by five performers - Keith Macpherson, Ewan Macdonald, Nico Major, Pauline Lockhart and Kirstin Murray. In an attempt to reflect the first couple of days, Clare had suggested an exercise to start the morning (see Day 2 entry), so the original 10 had each brought in our 3 words or phrases and we started to build up a mind-map style picture on the floor. There were some words exactly the same, some very different, but all helped us to create a memory resource and reflection - Clare photographed the map and I'll try and post it here next week. Luckily, the actors didn't immediately start to edge nervously towards the door and so we did a Marisa-devised exercise based around a few of the ideas that had been articulated as starting points for the six projects - measuring, observing, instructing, repeating.
I sent people off in three groups to start work. I gave them a single word of guidance "Definition" and a single Oblique Strategy card (Brian Eno's aids to creativity - if you've never used them, google the phrase and discover their joys). I worked with Ewan, Debbie, Tristan and Charles on Walden - my oblique strategy turned out to be "Take a deep breath". It was fascinating as only Ewan and I have actually read the book so everyone else's responses were immediate and unprepared. I described the book as best I could, read excerpts and talked about the many potential pitfalls of both one-person shows and literary adaptations. From the discussion, we defined some starting points. Marisa worked with Dave and the other 4 actors - hopefully one of them will post about this. I asked Clare, Ronan and Rosalind to spend half the time on Clare's idea and half on Ronan's.
Ronan had had thoughts about using a chorus and was interested in Dave's ideas about moving sound so in the afternoon, Marisa and Dave worked with him and the actors on images and sound. They produced some fascinating experiments in live surround sound with the chorus moving freely around the studio (studio 3 at Dance Base is very large and was perfect for this). Ronan's central character is loosely based around Jeanie - a teenager who was found in Los Angeles having been kept in a single room for the whole of her life by her parents - and he was wanting to explore the idea of the sounds that she might hear (which would probably sound completely abstract as she had no reference points).
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