Monday 10/8 D/D notes – Damaris
Cara out
Erica Berg visits
Joan B visits (w/ video camera)
THE CHAIR IS OPEN
Or a little kiss, then we’ll make out
Evening Format:
6:30 – 7:15 Sitting and Personal awareness practice
7:15 – 7:35 Solo Quads (20 min improv)
7:35 – 9:00 Exercises
9:30 - 10:00 Announcement/Discussion
BD’s Revisits Desert Winds Quad Menu Scott Smallwood music- 20 minutes, BME called
Ensemble
BD specified beg, middle, end
Scott Smallwood desert wind track which BD turned on and off (might be interesting to start at another place in the track?)
20 minutes Solo quads with everything the culture has brought to it…
BREAK
BD The chair is open.
Katharine’s Interstitial Ripple Menu, KK calls B M E with a bell
Swarmers: Swarm has two types of movement, which Katharine might coach. All beigin lying in corpse position scattered throughout room. The main talk is to come together as a swarm, but you must stay down on the ground. All movement must be proximal OR distal (still swarming) on the floor always.
Monologues: Three monologues by one to three people who arise from the swarm to standing in order to speak:
Section one: Talk about what it’s like to have to hold up the weight of your own head. Laurie
Section Two: Talk about something that you’re passionate about, politics, a rant. Eliza
Section three: Tell a secret that you’ve never told, in a mumbling way, a whisper so that we can’t quite make it out. Miriam.
Katharine will ring the bell to end the section.
Christa’s Questions Menu,
A clump in center with a tall person (Damaris) in the middle, facing forward. Tall person uses values of isolation in a group and is not clumping.
Clump: try not to allow center person to get out, work with collapsing, initiating from the head (like those little toys figurines on a round stand where you push underneath the stand and the toy collapses). Clump kinesthetically respond.
At some point the whole clump collapses. The sole survivor (the tall one) relates in some way to the fallen clump and somehow ends.
Simultaneously a separate person sitting dsr reads a passage from Rilke. One time straight, then repeats with more freedom. Reader is influenced by the clump, but not physically involved.
Barbara revisits her America the Beautiful Menu, BD call B M E
BD wants to up the tension btw the rocks and the clump, she has the vision that maybe in the course of an evening that the rocks don’t get picked up immediately after this AUNT, but that they stay and become a part of something else. Looking for places where space can give us synchronicity.
Carol as the coacher of singing becoming clear with her image as “the coach”
Five in a flock/swarm
Every once in a while someone falls, and then all fall
Another person is laying pebble rocks from a basket, demarcating space – this line of rocks the flock cannot cross
The pebble layer sings “America the Beautiful” and must finish laying all the rocks in the basket by the time the song is over. Miriam
Another person coaches the singing of the rock layer Carol
Post AUNT discussion:
The clump became more aggressive and eventually walked through the rocks. Carol was clearer on her vision as the coach. More dynamic was established between rocks and clump.
EB Had an elk decorum herding impression, maybe for next week.
Laurie’s Laugh on Back/Birthday Story Menu,
Swarm/flock/herd with random action of “laughing goose on the back” from our mythology. USL on cushions Damaris talks about her birthday weekend.
Post AUNT discussion;
MW the laugh, I rarely feel that it’s real. Should I be acting it?
BD What’s the matter if it’s not real? Imitation of the laugh, or coax it along until perhaps it becomes genuine.
DW Surrender
BD How do we serve an AUNT? How do we recall material?
EL Is it part of my menu giving out what I want (product) to evoke this or that feel, to produce this or that tension?
BD The chair is open
GAP no one got up to take the directors chair
BD Just to note this is the first tiem no one got immediately into the chair. In a period of waiting not to be anxious, to allow space.
KK For your first dip into in AUNT it’s kinda like A little kiss, then we’ll make out.
BD Where are we in setting up the values in the culture that are blocking things? How do we stay responsive? Sustain ourselves?
CR …or raise our chi? Perhaps part of the warm-up could be flocking and swarming.
BD Yes! It could come after the solos. The solos did evolve into the swarm. So next time 20 minutes of solo that will evolve into swarm and Christa will guide.
Housekeeping
BD has put out a sign up sheet for Monday night gazers, Bobby will set up chairs for how many people are expected to come.
Discussion about video camera and visiting gaze guests:
Generally people felt a need to formally acknowledge the guests in some way. Also to somehow fill them in (BD will create a context and guidelines sheet for the visitors).
The ensemble was surprised and in the back of everyone’s minds somewhat confused that Joan brought a video camera and recorded. BD forgot to inform group that this would happen. Joan will make a written proposal to the ensemble about videotaping and what she wants to do with this documentation.
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