When is the beginning of the gaze? 11/5

Monday 11/5 D/D notes – Damaris
Ensemble: Tyler, Bobby absent
Some 1st year visitors and Nicollee

WHEN IS THE BEGINNING OF THE GAZE?

Evening Format:
6:30 – 7:15 Sitting and Personal awareness practice
7:15 – 7:35 Grid work
7:35 – 9:00 AUNTS
9:30 - 10:00 Announcement/Discussion

“The gaze”, not a piercing stare. Avery Britcom/Monty Python talky grid warm up

Barbara’s Evolution Musings Menu, Erika, Eliza, Damaris, Miriam, Laurie, Christa (Transformations/ Beneath the Forrest Floor Soundscape)
5 people in a Herd /swarm /flock while EL muses about evolution on musing stool, move stool through the four quads during musing.
BD coached Eliza and at one point directed KK to take rock basket in and start arranging.

Post AUNT Discussion:
ChR Something about les pressure felt good in the herd, MB it was that there were only 5 of us in the herd? MB because Eliza was a counterpoint?
MW we stayed with something until it actually evolved
CR Soundscore, Eliza’s theme and the herd and the rocks were all very connected and supportive of each other. Hard to know from the outside what in particular you were leaning into
BD that was a 17 min AUNT
KK it models for me that we can hang out here for a while
BD yes, it is at a point where it would be luscious to “hang out”. I want to get to longer AUNTS, but with full attention. Staying awake in the middle of the action

BD revisits Solo Quads AUNT (desert winds Soundscape)
BD musing about the individual items you throw away.

Post- AUNT Discussion:
Many were not aware that this indeed was an AUNT, although it was in the solo quad form
EL Once we all start talking a lot, is it hard to return back to not talking?
EB When it like that it feels very much in the nervous system, I wonder how we can work with text as an element, MB in the abstract, as text permeates through space, it becomes predominant, it puts everything else in the background
EL In the first AUNT tonight, I didn’t feel I was in my nervous system – how can I find it conversationally with others?
BD I don’t think anything is wrong, there’s change and we’re talking about it in a bigger way, if we don’t play we can’t have this conversation, but MB we should keep the form of the stool as the talking format
MW yeah, originally in the solos if you were speaking you were not moving through space
BD perhaps we are looking at the weakening of the AUNT form into deep play with each other?

Discussion about realizing the Desert Quads was an AUNT with a menu, not simply solo practice, discussion as to what the order/inclusion of forms should be in our warm-up and when the gazers should join us. Is the gaze present during any portion of w-ups?

ChR when is the beginning of the gaze?
BD when the gaze is in the room the director’s chair is activated. MB we can rotate weekly with grid, flock, solo quad practices as w-up out of personal awareness practice

For next week the gaze will begin at 7:40 with Solo Quad Desert Aunt BD will be specific about menu

Eliza’s Grooming Menu – a gestation AUNT, Erika, Damaris, Miriam, Laurie, Barbara, Cara (Eric Satie music) Christa
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



Is 12/3 an evolution of the intention to make work to share for others…
In addition to 12/3 we’ve been invited to participate in
Community Center Shambhala week
Practice Day 4pm
Performance Space Denver Art Museum
Faculty Showing

WHAT DO WE WANT FROM THE GAZE? ON 12/3 IN PARTICULAR?
An AUNT being a community event – a party- as in NYC. The “big event” of December 3rd - what does it mean? Are we coming up with an evening menu for the whole event? A marking of the end of the first semester?

When shall we schedule a post 12/3 reflection meeting? Will we stay to talk directly after? (KK can only attend if we do so this way)

IDEAS for 12/3
Maybe for 12/3 we cobble AUNTS together? Let’s look at the menus we have, let’s see what’s made its way into our mythology (tea!)
1. Encourage some monologues/musings about the process
2. Make a menu for the evening, but even during the sequence the director’s chair could be open!
Maybe it would be fun to spend the Monday before (11/26) playing in it?
Put out an invitation announcement and include to BYOCup or 5 cents for a paper cup for tea.