Two supply priests exhibited the elements that interest me. One possessed a deeply resonant voice which he employed in a wonderfully archaic homiletic style. He was in his seventies so maybe not so archaic for him. You could imagine a Nineteenth-Century American declamatory style of oration (and acting) at it’s best. But [...]
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
present: Dale, Jeff, Marc, Summer We began to explore the text of Old Man Wind with the idea of making some musical textures for dancers and action. Here’s a sample: wind piece
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Here’s the complete score. Theme borrowed from Frank Churchill, of course. And one portion is from Ben Charest’s music for The Triplets of Belleville. The choreographer already had it in her head, and there was no convincing her to let me give it a shot with my materials. Great track; what can you do…Show Biz, [...]
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Here’s a template for creating imaginary accounts of meetings which did not take place: We began on time with everyone in attendance, though_____________came thirty minutes late, missing warm-ups, and______________left early in order to_______________. One stranger was in attendance; _______never identified _________-self. _____________led us through a warm-up of ____________, some back flips, ________________ with and without [...]
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JB asked about some things I’m putting together for Newnan School of Dance’s Spring Recital: soundscapes for a version of the Three Little Pigs. So I’ve rerecorded some as mp3s. Hope the playback works. Make sure your connection speed is at least 1mb/sec. And I’ve still had some stuttering playback problems, so I’ve had [...]
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
present: Dale, Marc, Jeff B., Barbara, Jeff A. We read through the first 15 pages or so of Charles Mee’s Iphigenia 2.0 [.doc] to get a feel for the language and the structure. We also looked at a bit later in the piece that used transcribed narratives from soldiers and Wilfrid Owen’s “Dulce et decorum [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I would like to propose a way forward; not in product, but in process. Not that there’s anything wrong with talking about product(ions). That should continue, I think, and must. But speaking just for myself, there’s always a sharp disjunction between what I think about potential productions and what i do when I’m engaged in [...]
Lacunagroup has decided upon its next project. The group will undertake an exact, documentary re-creation of a performance of Act III, Scene 1 from Shakespeare’s Coriolanus the group gave on the evening of November 1, 2008 at the Newnan Community Theatre Company. “That performance had certain qualities that I find fascinating,” opined group member Dale [...]
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