It was great to get to practice Simul-Start and Simul-Stop yesterday! It is a score to practice awareness, timing and breaking inhibition. It has been developed by Nina Martin and Lower Left members.
We did All Out! to begin with and some open score as well. Good work. Thanks to Katy to remind us to get going on our feet an not talk too much!
I'll be away next week but back the second week of August. Have fun!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Notes from Jen
Hi Friends,
So far, Laura, Julie and Jennifer met on Monday July 6th. and, Julie, Katy, Lee and Jennifer met on Tuesday at 45 West and had an inspiring rehearsal. Here are some of the ideas that we talked about, worked on and hope to develop more in the future. Exciting things are in the works.
Please note these are the notes that I took in rehearsal, if there are other ideas that I missed please do add them. Also, these ideas are a blend of our collective conversation, as well as individual interests.
Monday July 6th
- Developing the Tuning Score (Lisa Nelson's) - pause, play, repeat, end, replay, exit, etc, etc.
- Practise Memory - what happened during all points of the improv.
- Break the 3 minute habit - going beyond the 3 minute tendancy of an idea or ending it sooner.
- Endings
- Catching and matching momentum
- Vocabulary Tuning
Tuesday July 14th
- One musician to one dancer
- Looking, working with the eyes
- Could we develop a score that is almost impossible? How would you interpret the score to make it workable.
- what roles come up as we work and improvise together?
- what score could we develop that would not produce a product. does the need to produce a product, or create something watchable override investigation of depth.
- idea of a tribe - we develop the same language
- boredom is very valuable
awesome quote from Julie's friend Andrew Wass:
"Hold your idea in the palm of your hand, if you want to drop it just open hand and let it go."
until next time,
jennifer clarke
So far, Laura, Julie and Jennifer met on Monday July 6th. and, Julie, Katy, Lee and Jennifer met on Tuesday at 45 West and had an inspiring rehearsal. Here are some of the ideas that we talked about, worked on and hope to develop more in the future. Exciting things are in the works.
Please note these are the notes that I took in rehearsal, if there are other ideas that I missed please do add them. Also, these ideas are a blend of our collective conversation, as well as individual interests.
Monday July 6th
- Developing the Tuning Score (Lisa Nelson's) - pause, play, repeat, end, replay, exit, etc, etc.
- Practise Memory - what happened during all points of the improv.
- Break the 3 minute habit - going beyond the 3 minute tendancy of an idea or ending it sooner.
- Endings
- Catching and matching momentum
- Vocabulary Tuning
Tuesday July 14th
- One musician to one dancer
- Looking, working with the eyes
- Could we develop a score that is almost impossible? How would you interpret the score to make it workable.
- what roles come up as we work and improvise together?
- what score could we develop that would not produce a product. does the need to produce a product, or create something watchable override investigation of depth.
- idea of a tribe - we develop the same language
- boredom is very valuable
awesome quote from Julie's friend Andrew Wass:
"Hold your idea in the palm of your hand, if you want to drop it just open hand and let it go."
until next time,
jennifer clarke
Monday, July 20, 2009
Goonies
Our inaugural performance was a success! Thank you to Goonies Gallery for being our first fabulous host. "Two thousand paper cranes" happened on May 29th, 2009 and featured dancers: Jennifer Clark, Laura Hicks, Anne Cooper, Julie Lebel, and Tanya Marquardt, with music makers: JP Carter, Lee Hutzulak, Rachael Wadham, Madoka Hara, and Aaron Joyce.
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