Aunts and Agression 11/19

Monday 11/19 D/D notes – Damaris
Ensemble present
8 gazers


AUNTS AND AGRESSION

Evening Format:
6:30 – 7:00 Sitting and Personal awareness practice
7:00 – 7:30 Grid work
7:30 – 7:40 Break
7:40 – 9:30 AUNTS and the Gaze
9:30 - 10:00 Housekeeping/Discussion

Barbara’s Desert Quads Menu, Ensemble (Desert Winds Soundscape)
4 squad solos, nothing in quad but solo person, enter only from edge (not from audience), say Beginning and End. If there is text it happens on the musing stool. BD is interested in our conversation about “claustrophobia” surrounding improved text. In this quad if you are talking you are talking into the quads, not to the gaze. Intention is that you could take influence – not being ignorant to the solo, you are responsible to them.

Cara revisits Trash Chute, Entire ensemble
ELmuses on evolution
All US in a line in parallel corridors. BD will never cross down of middle, everyone else up and down. All work with slow mo, walking and falling, 3 eye practices: direct looking, space btw, closed eyes (even the gaze)

Erika’s image of the elk in the meadow, Entire ensemble
One person is “the big elk”, others are arranged in concentric circles around the big elk, responding to the “leader” from all sense perception. Communication cold happen from ripples. Begin in a restful state, spare movements

Bobby and Eliza revisit Eliza’s Unearthing Brachiated Square, Damaris, Barbara, Laurie, Christa, Cara? (Shirley Bassey “History Repeating”)
5 corridors in a 6 x 6 square
Throughout the AUNT the square advances ds, within corridors performers are moving forward and backward, staying facing the gaze moving brachiated to low ups and downs, mostly slow-mop influence of other’s timing
Add bobby’s staged setting with Tyler in costume poring blood on himself

Katharine revisits her Interstitial Ripple Menu, three scarves
Swarmers: All begin lying in corpse position scattered throughout room. All movement must be proximal OR distal (still swarming) on the floor.
Monologues: Three monologues by three people who arise from the swarm to standing in order to speak: When the speakers begin to talk the swarmers closest to the talker help them get to standing and get them wrapped in whichever of three scarves are closest.
Section one: Talk about how it feels to join the right and left side of your body. Laurie
Section Two: Talk about something that you’re passionate about, politics, a rant. Eliza
Section three: Express something using sounds not words Miriam.


Housekeeping
We did not actually get to the housekeeping items on the menu due to the post Interstitial Ripple discussion/emergency after Miriam accidentally stepped on Laurie’s foot and then unintentionally hurt Eliza’s feelings.


Some observations from the post AUNT discussion:
The edge of being in and out of the AUNTS container at the same time.
Suggestion of the mindfulness bell to mediate charged discussions
How do we deal with an injury within an AUNT? (person who is hurt decides to stop it?)
What happens with aggression inside an AUNT?
A vision from BD is that when obstacles or difficulties arise they are energetic fields that inform how we are evolving, and what we do next.

IDEAS for 12/3
From the weekend brunch at Cara’s:
Barbara will make a menu for the evening
Miriam will make a poster advertising the event and requesting that folks bring their own mugs.
Eliza plans to be in charge of setting up risers and chairs
Katherine and Damaris will organize tea