Connections

Hey,
I was wondering if the people who are making connections could post where they are connecting to and whatever you have worked out with them or whatever idea you have.  Obviously, we can discuss all of this tonight, but I think that if we have all of this information in one place, then we can really get the ball rolling.  It's also nice to know what other people are doing in terms of program planning and how we can make other ideas work together.

Amanda

Some Images of our theme "Boundaries"

It is around Madison Square Park.

I think probably one month ago some artist made a bronze statue and set up those in certain area.

First time when I saw the bronze person on the top of Flatiron Building, I thought that someone try to commit suicide. After noticing the statue, I attentively observed it.

The artist kept changing the position by a certain boundries with those statue.

At this point, it seems similar with our new project.

 What do you think?   :)

Late night - from Jee Yun Hong

meeting and new ideas

Hi guys,

Considering we ended up not meeting last night and that our time is getting shorter and shorter I would like to try a meeting next Tue before class. Jee Yun and I have tech rehearsal at 8pm and we might not be able to meet after class. How many of you could meet at 5:45pm in the classroom next Tue?

Also, Sony and Jason won't be able to be in our performance on the 27th. That, together with some ideas I had last class during Pedro's presentation, and with the time we have left made me think if we should do a different format than the one we are planning so far.

My feeling is that we are following a similar format than memory, with a theme, the places we want to connect, the scenes, etc, but with less structure, less resources, and less time. Since this is an open project, we don't have to necessarily follow that same structure, right?

I am wondering if we can come up with a different setting, or even a whole different idea altogether. Something simpler but different than the one we had already tried. It feels hard to do it without Sony and Jason and also it feels weird to repeat the same pattern that we had done, so successful, with memory.

We could experiment with one of Pedro's proposed ideas and see what we get, like that idea of having a lot of people connected with their laptops in different locations getting the sounds from all over.

Sorry I am not being so helpful here, but I think we should use the limitations we have to come up with something simpler and more creative. I honestly don't think dancing in that room would work so well, for instance. But Jee and I could do something in a different place.

What if every one of us choose a place to be (an unfamiliar territory?) and we send the images to the screen that could be set in our classroom? And the goal would be to explore how we feel in that place either by dancing, singing, playing, talking, or simply being there...

My 2 cents.

Raquel

Class Notes (March 30th)

*Technology
Four connections (Two are slower)
Streaming?
Need two to three DVD players

*Room setup
Using piano and cover the back (use as screen to project images)

*Ideas (Scenes)
Using people to create movement by pushing and pulling on the “white sheets”
Putting ideas in a hat – during show performers would randomly pick an idea and re-enact it on the spot by choosing from the hat?
Performers wear all white
Idea of practice rooms – filming different players
Stairs as a boundary
Invisible glasses
Taking different genres and adding variety of other musical examples (adding blues to classical music)
Personal Bubble, Generation Limitation

*Buffer (For in between scenes)
Using DVD’s –musical or visual (loop and create more than the allotted time)

*Items (Need)
White sheets
Projector – on all walls and one facing ceiling
DVD’s from Bobst (need to fill out paper work before borrowing)

*Number of people and what equipment is required??

Class Notes (March 23rd)

Collaborative Projects Notes 3/23

DATE OF PERFORMANCE

          April 27th

LOCATION

          Studio E

TIME

          6:45 – 8:25pm

WEEKS UNTIL PERFORMANCE

          March 27^th – brainstormed about themes, discussion about previous performance

          March 30^th

          April 6^th

          April 13^th

          April 20^th

ROLES (Who does what?)

THEMES

          Growth (Development, Growing, Fertilizing)

          Territory (Emotional, Physical, Testimony)

                  Focusing on the different stages of territory

                  Nationalism, Boundaries (How to be present and not be there)

                  Adding places, geographically

          Limitations

PROCEDURES

         Class collaboration (create cohesiveness)

         Five scenes

MEDIA

         Spoken Dialogue

         Dance/Movement

         Acting

         Visual

         Playing/Performing

COLLABORATORS

         South Africa - Community Group from South Africa - Beth

         Italy – Tam

         CAL Arts - Tam

         Brazil – Raquel

         Austin, TX - Jason

NEEDS FOR TECHNOLOGY

         Numbers of connections

         ichat

        skype

PIECES

        Need two dancers (Tam’s piece)      

                   Solo flute, experimenting with sounds

Catching up

Hi guys, Raquel here. Thanks Sony for doing the blog, it is very helpful.
Since I miss class last week can anybody post what happened and what did you talk about the project then?
All I know is from the first meeting we had, then we got Jee Young's email with suggestions, then Betty's email with suggestions, that I also replied.
Please put me in the loop!
Thanks.
Happy Easter to everyone!
Raquel

Hello

Hi everyone, this is our blog for the upcoming in-class experiment. Hopefully we can get the ball rolling with this project now, as we are running out of precious time. Feel free to post whenever.