Wholesome and Relaxed with Rigor 6/1/7

DAY TWO Friday 6/1/7
MORNING
“WHOLESOME AND RELAXED WITH RIGOR”
Beginning Structure: meditation, personal awareness practice, open space.
Solo Quads – Same as Previous day: Quadrants Exercise w/ Eric Lacossa soundscape
All ensemble
Space divided into four equal quadrants (ensemble seated in proscenium format)
A participant can choose to enter and take a solo in a quad w/ beginning middle and end declared by solo performer (optional working w/ others influence). Soloists entering and exiting must do so along the edge of the playing space
A quad may be left empty
A soloist may choose to read or recite text, but with no movement. There may be two quads with active text at a time.
Quadrants may be done with a pre-recorded sound-scape.
At the end of the quads AUNT ensemble gives a ‘one-clap.

Exercise Two
Return to solo quads with the same sound environment as yesterday. Only 10 minutes w/ Victoria, Katharine, Laurie, Christa, Barbara
Q What is the line of self-consciousness? Keeping solos important.

Carol’s Quadrants Variation Two Menu, w/ Eric Lacossa soundscape
All
Solo quads, same rules as Barbara introduced including the option of text and the same sound score. (Idea: perhaps starting the sound score at a different place.)
If you enter to join in a quad, establish spatial relationship and duet; two or more people in one quadrant the 2nd mirroring, deeply influenced by the 1st.
Only one quad at a time can have multiple people

AFTERNOOON
“WAITING AWAKE”
Mary’s Roe Sham Bo Menu,
All
Imagine a circle diameter 10 to 15 feet
Two people in the circle, task in circle is to play rock/paper/scissors or trivial pursuit, you may enter and exit. The rest of the space is mapped in US/DS diagonals, one must experience a “shift” in energy when passing through the circle, otherwise in the circle you may use levels, line and shape, you may choose to be influenced by the game played in the circle. Everyone can enter and exit and play with tempo as in duration of performance

Feedback forum from the inside and the intention from the creator of the AUNT.

KK A question about staying w/in the form
CK Negotiation between giving an impulse expression and/or letting be what’s there.
BD Playing enjoyable exploring possibilities in the structure, the length of time. How long does it take for an AUNT to get dressed?
CR Always kind of thrown when a rule gets broken
MLB I assume a rule is there to be broken

Victoria’s Devotion Duet Menu,
Chung Fu, Damaris
Duet in the whole space
One person solos, a second person DSR is established, but waits t feel the impulse to join, and then mirrors One as much as possible
AUNT ends when either one or two feels devotion

A comment about boredom and waiting – waiting for the space to tell us what to do. If you’re really gonna mine, then you’ve got to stay and what’s there.

BD A value of the culture through dharma art may be to allow you to take criticism in a way that self love can allow you to take what you need and let the rest go.

No regret says “Oh yeah, that being (me) back then was more primitive…” First thought best thought – primordial thought- sense that in the middle of chatter. The vast place of the unknown can pop out. A vast net to narrow down is a process of discrimination. Everyone in this culture will find their own metaphors. Nothing becoming something.

Ringing the bell is a way to press the pause button

Barbara’s Three Views Menu – BD coached as it progressed
Joan, Katharine, Christa, Reagan
Each of the three hold umbrellas to the right above you, walk from one foot to another- balance as you go along diagonal parallel corridors. Umbrellas changing hands is OK.
Maintain an energetic palm of the hand, eyes moving away from the palm, focus 2/3rds on palm, eye and umbrella, 1/3rd on the pedestrian activity of going from foot to foot.
REAGAN does a solo behind the parallel corridors using repetition, levels and stillness. Also she can accept influence from others in trio.
MARY will enter with a soliloquy about death.
The trio begins to slowly cross to Mary.
Reagan now on a chair, strike levels

Modeling different styles of directing. On the edge of decorum
Cultivating the group mind, culture, trust
Renunciation,
Present,
Engaged

Now return to previous AUNTS, their creators have first dibs at do-overs.

Katharine revisits Katharine’s The Most Excellent Heart Sutra of Longmont Menu, Katharine calls beginning, middle & end
Carol and Laurie
Same two predetermined pieces of text physically stayed on stage for reading in the center – Operator’s choice of volume control; speaking voice as a desperate loud whisper, but also with any voice you can tell two stories; how you’re doing or some kind of mundane pedestrian instruction
Work with up and down
Soft and hard
Spiral and circle
Don’t use the wall

Victoria revisits Christa’s Desire Menu, Victoria calls beginning, & end
Joan, Mary Christa, Laurie
W/ two objects of desire: Noah and Chung Fu
Space split in two sections (SL & SR)
One side, two performers, fear or resistance of desire
The other side, two performers, desire
Interacting with your desire image, finding moments to cross over to the “other side”
Working with accepting/not accepting influence from others. The pause bell may be used.