A Prepared menu 11/26

Monday 11/26 D/D notes – Damaris
Ensemble present
BFA and MFA gazers

A PREPARED MENU

Evening Format:
6:30 – 7:00 Sitting and Personal awareness practice
7:00 – 7:30 review of the eve’s plan
7:30 – 7:40 Break
7:40 – 9:30 working with BD”s AUNTS menu and the Gaze
9:30 - 10:00 Housekeeping/Discussion

In 9190
12/3 open studio showing, BD’s AUNTS collage:

Roberto played with the lights and Barbara controls the sound from the director’s chair, ensemble placing themselves not just as creator, but also as viewer:

BD will take the musing stool to welcome everyone, while this happens seven people will slowly evolve into a flock/swarm/herd (participants to be determined) by starting at the walls, taking time to evolve, the group will work with a sound environment of a NYC street protest.

PAUSE

Desert Quads with Desert Winds music (participants to be determined
Barbara calls BME,
4 squad solos, nothing in quad but solo person, enter only from edge (not from audience), say Beginning and End, solos emphasis working with the eyes

STRAIGHT INTO

Desert Quads Variation with Desert Winds music (participants to be determined
Above menu with Addition/option of the musing stool,
Two quads will evolve into having duets, evolving into groups
When BD calls Middle the four quads can begin to take influence from each other, evolving into a flock, which will then morph into Laughing Butcher Bird AUNT (EL,CR, CHR, LL, DW) after the introduction of the Butcher Bird sound-score.

PAUSE

Slow gathering of Elks in the Meadow AUNT (Erika as big elk, other participants to be determined)
Tyler volunteered to direct – a reprise?
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 could happen from ripples. Begin in a restful state, spare movements.


STRAIGHT INTO

Eliza’s Grooming Menu – a gestation AUNT, Erika, Damaris, Miriam, Laurie, Barbara, Cara (Eric Satie music) Christa reads from “The Path is the Goal”, Eliza coaches
Three couples (each A and B) nourish each other (deep play) by first A’s taking weight/wringing out muscles, the directed by Eliza switching
At Eliza’s direction Christa crossed from usl reading a passage about wasting time from “The Path is the Goal”
No speech, sound OK if it comes out of the tissues
At end B drags A down stage


STRAIGHT INTO

Timeless Stone Game AUNT, (participants to be determined)
Eliza muses on stool about evolution,
Five people with the stones play a made up “game”, one that has been going on for eons


Discussion/Housekeeping
Observation that the “one clap” between AUNTS releases some of the energy/focus of the AUNT, awareness of where we want to put that in our lineup.
Our choices and assumptions Transparency VS Aesthetic,
What we want the audience to know
Lets not have it al smoothed out, there seems to be a desire, a value to keep transparency as an ongoing value.

Proposed Timeline for 12/3
5pm
* Damaris will put water in tea urns on a table in the hallway and plug in
* Miriam will post “name list” in studio (thanks for the flyers!)
* Eliza will organize (with free first years? With 2nd years not in Desolate/Delight?) to put chairs and cushions out (just one row of risers), we anticipate 35 gazers
* Bobby will place copies of the handouts (including the request to post comments at our Blogsite) on the seats
* When Katherine arrives she’ll leave tea on urn table
* As everyone arrives they’ll put their extra mug on the tea table
6:15
All ready to begin sitting and personal awareness practice
7pm First year “dedicated gazers” begin offering tea, Barret in charge
7:20
short break and open doors to gazers
7:30 - 8:45/9pm
Open Studio showing (see menu)
9pm
Barbara gives a wrap up talk and reminds gazers to post comments on blogsite and stack their chairs as they leave. First year “dedicated gazers” clean out tea urns and return to folding table. We have a post showing wrap –up talk (and exchange yummy treats).
AFTER 10pm
We (that can stay) do any last clean up/putting away of cushions and take our mugs