All Public Events

Theatrical Presentations

• • 2/12,13,19,20,21/10
    Mondavi Center, Davis, CA UC Davis, Dept. Theater and Dance - excerpt
  • 2/25, 26, 27, 28/10
    CounterPULSE, San Francisco IC4 - excerpt
  • 11/26-28/10
    Fabrik, Potsdam -Preview
  • 12/2/10
    DaDa Fest, Liverpool - Preview
  • 12/ 16-19/2010
    Uferstudios, Berlin, First of Rolling World Premiere
  • 1/28. 29/2011
    Tigertail Productions, Miami US Preview
  • 2/3-6/2011
    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, second phase of Rolling World Premiere.
  • 2/18,19/2011
    PADL West, San Diego

Installation Performances

• • 1/29/10
    University Club, Davis, CA UC Davis, Dept. Theater and Dance
  • 11/6/10
    Uferstudios, Berlin /AADK The State of Things - Guest Installation
  • 11/18 - 20/10
    Uferstudios, Berlin Dances for Non/Fictional Bodies - Installation
  • 1/13-15/11
    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Gallery/Lobby Installation
  • 2/10/11
    Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco Community Installation project
  • 2/12/11
    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco - Big Idea Night Lobby Installation

Screenings, Panels, Discussions

• • 11/20/10
    Uferstudios, Berlin Film Screening - Nobody's Perfect ( Film from Niko Von Glasow)
  • 11/20/10
    Uferstudios, Berlin Panel - Dance and Physical Diversity
  • 1/26/11
    InkUb8, Miami Panel - Dance and Physical Diversity
  • 2/4/11
    YBCA, San Francisco Post Show Discussion
  • 2/18/11
    PADL West, San Diego Post Show Discussion

Workshops, Master Classes

• • 10/11-22/10
    Tanzfabrik, Berlin Professional Training - Curtis
  • 10/26 – 11/4/10
    Uferstudios, Berlin Professional Training - Curtis
  • 12/3/10
    DADA Fest, Liverpool, UK Physically Diverse Process - Scaroni, Müller, Cunningham
  • 1/18,20/11
    CSU East Bay Dance Dept., Hayward, CA Inclusive Improv and Composition - Cunningham, Markland, Scaroni, Curtis
  • 1/21/11
    CounterPULSE, San Francisco Dandelion Dance Theater, Company Exchange Lab - Scaroni, Markland, Cunningham
  • 1/25,26/11
    Tigertail WinterFest, Miami, FL Inclusive Improv, Physical Process, Scaroni, Curtis, Company
  • 2/8,9/11
    YBCA Forum and Gardens,San Francisco Physically Diverse Installation Processes - Company
  • 2/14/11
    Axis Dance Oakland, CA Inclusive Performance -Curtis, Cunningham
  • 2/17/11
    Live!/PADL, San Diego Improvisation Exchange
  • 2/18/11
    UC San Diego and PADL West, San Diego Emodied Processes - Scaroni
  • 2/21/10
    Stage Seven/Live San Diego Presence and Performance - Curtis

Visual Art Exhibitions

• 12/16-19/10
  Uferstudios, Berlin, Hagolani DNFB Location Photos
• 2/3-6/11
  YBCA San Francisco, Hagolani DNFB Location Photos

Prep, Fundraising, Research

Early Processes

Summer 2008

Began fundraising, came up with title and general concept, actually began with idea to meld two most recent major works into one piece. Began conversations withAngela Mattox at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Winter 2009

Major Fundraising push, began speaking with collaborators. Jörg, Maria, Claire, Matthias

Summer 2009

Reading   Self/Image by Amelia Jones at the behest of Guillermo.  

What stays with me.

Haptic Visuality – desire

The fictional characters of Cindy Sherman.

Punctum – How is this useful in performance.

Idea to have everyone create photos of their bodies in death.

Björn Andresen proposes web site/blog as working tool.

Learned that Matthias cannot be present in Davis because Irati is having baby.  Work remotely?

9/26/09

Broke collarbone on Mountain bike ride on La Gomera.

9/01/09

Quote from Maria:  “Every body is some version of a virgin.”

Idea: writing project on “Every body……”

9/07/09

Maria has dream ofstrange world in odd building a la John Malkovich where Chimpanzee is controlling peoples thoughts.  Fun wacky telling of story as scene?

9/08/09

Thought/Dreams last night and this morning of the cast teaching small dances to the audience in walk-around pre-show.

Everyone beginning very dressed a la “fictional characters” or perhaps dressing as part of the pre-show, a la Menouchkin.   And by end being naked and super simple.

Decided to go to Berlin Nov. 11-21 and be there for the work with Matthias.

10/14/09

In Guillermo’s performance theory seminar he asks about current concerns and “obsessions” in performance.  I admit to myself that the onlything I have been “obsessed’ with lately is bicycling.  How do I fold this into the work.  Can I trust this as information from my own “non-fictional body” or is it addictive consumerism feeding like a cancer on my sleep-deprived and lonely consciousness. 

10/17/09

Writing in Janet Papale’s class about bicycle obsession I think about how to make this work to my advantage , how to fold it into the piece. I have image of setting up a cycling trainer that is connected to a generator and powers something significant in the performance, requiring be to expend a significant amount of energy through an extended period of time.

10/19/09

Two hours production work emailssetting up Berlin Residency week for November

One hour chat with Peter L. on logistics, explaining project getting him up to speed on the project.  Looking forward to getting his support in the process.

10/21/09

Phone meeting with David Toole.

Need to check on:

Availability

Access Requirements.

David seems nice enough, is available and interested.  Needs no special access issues. Can do a few stairs and travels without a PA.

Left it that we would think about it a bit and decide by next week.

10/25/09

 4 hour Project/Budget meeting with Randy where we run through project budget and create a “real” version using only confirmed funds for the project. This is extremely satisfying and stress relieving.  We have enough funds at this point to pull offa fairly committed rehearsal/creation process.  Without more funds we can pay everyone$700 per week for 16 weeks (including performance weeks) This does not include touring which at the moment will be at least an additional 3 weeks.

10/27/09

Matthias confirms rehearsal space for Berlin.  I work on Blog and make first posts.

10/30/09

Dave Toole agrees to offer and signs on to project.

Meeting with YBCA,  Angela Mattox, Alexandra Quinn Randy, re: Creative Work Fund LOI.   Really interesting.  they will write and get draft back next week. 

Meeting with Randy and Julie to discuss Graivty admin structural changes.  Randy working into central admin role with Julie as Project Manager.  Julie wants more specificity in her job descriptions, which makes sense and I am happy to support.  At one point though she gets resistant to the idea that what we are describing sounds like she is being Randy’s assistant.  So in a way she wants a very exact amount of responsibility/authority.   I guess we all do.

In discussing the Davis iteration of the project we decide that Gravity staff’s main focus, first priority is making sure that the cast is all housed and welcomed comfortably.  Working with the Davis student production system seems necessary and so lt’s utilize that and see how Gravity staff can interface with them, or if Randy or Julie need to do that at all.  Randy’s connections in the department and his knowledge of Davis feel like they will come in handy.

Randy is taking on the housing problem,  Julie is organizing travel (Flights and arrival in Davis.)

We set a full production meeting for next Friday at 12:30

Posted on blog today:

“So the semiotics of theatrical performance has shown …. its own proprium, its distinguishing and peculiar features. A human body, along with its conventionally recognizable properties, surrounded by or supplied with a set of objects, inserted within a physical space, stands for something else to a reacting audience. In order to do so it has been framed within a sort of performative situation that establishes that it has to be taken as a sign. From this moment on, the curtain is raised. From this moment on, anything can happen……

- Umberto Eco

“ Something is a sign only because it is interpreted as a sign of something by some interpreter….Semiotic then is not concerned with a particular kind of object but with ordinary objects insofar ( and only insofar) as they participate in semiosis.”

- C.S. Pierce

Something I like about the simplicity of this.  Bodies in a space and anything can happen.  The sign becomes a sign by our creating a frame for it.

10/31/09

Daydreaming Ideas while reading Althusser,  The PiccoloTeatro: Bertolazzi and Brecht.  What if the audience is in multi-centered walk around mode and at some point the whole cast leaves and leaves them alone to look at each other for a long time. Could we get them to dance? What about a musical chairs game where we always have one less chair than audience members and something happens to them if they are caught out without a chair.  (Have to leave, have to be in some scene?)

11/16/09

Jörg, Claire and Matthias meet in Berlin.  Make cigarette paper puppets and improvise lovely music with them. Post them to blog

11/17-18/09

Maria and I are still in Brescia with her family.   Jörg, Matthias and Claire improvise a lot.  They create a number of musical events; lyrics to a song written through a “writing weave” collective process “Green Fun” is very silly but has a catchy tune.  Jörg composes a melody using the letters of each persons name in sequence.  Matthias and he arrange for Clarinet and Bass and Drums. the three of them record extensive improvisation n the large empty factory-ish room outside the rehearsal studio.  Lots of natural re-verb makes for a big cathedral sound on voice, trumpet and cello.

11/19/09

Maria and I return to Berlin and I go to rehearsal today.  I try to learn bass parts for two arrangements (name song and “drip song”)  We play games at a table

11/20/09

We play through results of the week and make a crazy improv with Maria. More table rhythm games. Everyone hitting me with drumsticks, not so lightly.

Sven Hagolani stops makes photo shoot.

End of First Rehearsal Period in Berlin

12/14/09

Met with Matthias to discuss musical strategies.  He is nterested in creating a kind of triggering program/device where the whole music could be played off of a single computer and interacted with sonically. Triggered by Jörg’s trumpet etc. I am open but skeptical.  Sounds like a potential technical nightmare and a big possible time sucker (Remember Touched program!!)   We listen through songs from the November Rehearsals

12/15/09

Berlin Ideas waking up.

New beginning for Mouse Polka

How do you like my hair?

How can I like what isn’t there.

I think I ‘ll change my nose.

What would you do without that hose?

12/16/09

From surgically sculpted cyborg sex kittens and chemically enhanced superhuman road warriors to genetically engineered/selected wonder children - our bodies more than ever are shaped and marked by the imagination of higher and higher levels of performance.  Is the body obsolete?  A carbon based fossil shell just waiting for us to evolve out of it? Who decides what the body of the future will be?  What should be deleted?  What should be mass produced? Can you afford the body of the future?

Holiday Pause

Winter 2010

UC Davis Creation Residency 2010

1/11/10 First Rehearsal. 6pmU-Club

Present – Me, David, Maria, Jörg Claire and Kaino.  Dani (Dave's PA)
Everyone has arrived, Thankfully.  I am relieved.  Still a bit ofrearranging this week on the housing front.
Kaino brings home made fruitcake, donuts and Tangerines from her neighbors tree.

We open therehearsal with a 3 minute check-in go-round.  Feels a bit clunky at first, but actually nice once people get into it.  David admits to feeling a bit freaked out by the whole context of our symmetry installation at Keith’s Too Much Event last night.

Then a lot of logistical talk.  Dates and such.

We decide that each rehearsal will begin with45 minutes of individual warm-up.  Everyone will be ready for group movement activity starting at 6pm.

We take a break and Kaino takes photos of everyone.

I propose a 30 minute observation score. In partners each person is observed for 30 minutes and then doer and observer report to each other.

With Maria watching, JörgChanges clothes cries, and then takes off his clothes and turns upside down with his hair flying up off his head.

With David watching, Claire is very minimal and sits on a yoga mat and sort of stretches. gets up to put on her socks.rubs her knee

At 23 minutes Jörg gets up and leaves the room.

Other Direction>>

While Jörg watches Maria lays on mats a long time, moves against wall, does fire breath.

While Claire watches David Lies down, Walks to white board.  Moves onto block. Moves from Bech to stool to bench.  (Changing levels is beautiful. 

People watching people is beautiful.  How can we provoke the audience to watch each other?

Maria writes on Chalk Board the lyrics to “The man I love” and pulls down her pants.

Watching each other watching is beautiful.  (David watches Maria)

Maria removes words from the song.

David moves on to top of table and reads over my shoulder.

(david at edge of table is scary)  (table dance for later)

Maria is just fucking beautiful.  she quotes Café Müller.

David watches Dani?

I love David’s  T-Shirt “Wasted”

(Shirtology quotes?)

End in10 minute Free Write

Here is mine.  I am in love with these guys already.  Oh my god, that was beautiful..  I could invite people to watch that tomorrow.  The incredible simplicity of each of their presence was just stunning.  I may be just in a fucked up kind of sentimental mood, butthat was really exquisite. I need to do really nothing at all.

Jörg’s tears,  Claire’s eyes as she watched David, David’s face and the simplicity of his moving up and down between levels and just sitting on the table.  I must be losing my mind for sure, but actually no one but me really needs to like this piece.  I don’t have to sell any tickets.  There will be no real reviews.  I can explain away a weird moment of process to any presenters that happen to come through.

I loved that.

I wonder how my viewing as an outside outsider affected the proceedings?  I imagine so many different possibilities about this set up.  watching each other then everybody watching one person, then choosing an audience member to watch.  Copy?  Turn the theater inside out really.  (Fuck William Forsythe.)

I want Josh to make the Mondavi look like the U-Club. I want the audience to have the choice to follow people outside and walk into the space. David watching from the seats was good.  Jörg outside the windows. David with Maria’s hat on. 

I am really pleased.   I also feel a little sad.  It had a kind of sadness to it that I liked.

that seems like about enough to say here.  Quotes from Jerome Bel and Pina Bausch.

1/12/10 Tuesday – U-Club

5-6 Personal Warm-up

6-7 Sensing Score working through Proprioception, kinesthesic filters to be in movement and focusing on underlying sensations in the body that are not normally conscious.

 Then working through Hearing, Smell, and Vision as filters for shaping movement choices.

7-8 Break for Safety Training and Volunteer Form filling in.

8-8-30 Worked in Contact pairs rotating through each possible pairing with one observer at all times (Idanced with)

8-30- 9-15Worked on a making exercise.  Jörg/David and Claire/Maria.

Notes on Each

Jörg/David Duet

Not touching, Close proximity.  Working Spaces in between. Various Modes include David sliding under Jörgon all fours, Jörg jumping with David’s hands in between feet.  Jörgs behind David and whole game of hands moving through and around. Spooning image at end.  David pushes into handstand to avoid hand between legs.  David Jumping on hands and Jörg trying to emulate.  What is the meeting/meaning here?

Claire/Maria Duet

Approach facing each other. Attach heads. Arm gestures.?? find hoodie. Create Arm puppet with hoody (project) Re move hoodie Claire reverses and they move through space.

9-15 1015 Table Section

Reviewed material from Berlin.  Sitting around table passing claps then sounds, then layering a phase of counting with different tones.  We then moved into passing the 5 tones around the table in a star, which made the melody 1-3-5-2-4. Then layered numbers 1-4 over that then a four word phrase.  Brain Fuck but really fun.

ended with an improv trying to tell an improvised story around the table while maintaining the tone pass path.

1/13/10

5-6 Personal warmup

6-7 Jörg leads

Claire -Fun house Mirrors

Jörg – Opera Singing

Maria – Walk Across, Ask questions: What is your favorite animal? Favorite Tree?  Tell me something about being in love? Tell me something about growing old?

David- Chair circle - Pushups

715-830 talking/Moving - Sound into Contact

vocal mirroring into 5 way mirror in levels on one plane and then 5 way mirror score around the table.  Then we did say what you do Sound what you do into duets.

J/C , M/DNice Duets

8- 9 Half hour Watchings into Duet Makings

I gave the direction to not disallow direct engagements of the observer.

J/C,

jörg plays trumpet while observing.  Claire sits eats and watches David as Jörg observes.   Claire moves on stage and reads her book.  “Bodies”I like this image.

J. adjusts his view point, gets very far away and then very close.

M/D

Maria watches first round. David goes for a wheel chair dance then moves over to table for a bit of a table dance and then interesting stuff climbing on an upside down chair.  Ends lying on the ground stretched out.

d/Mwings and heels,  “ tu me fai girar” karaoke in the kitchen.

c/J Trumpet in the courtyard and a construction project back in the space with a found hat rack.  J reads from ”Bodies.”  Maria enters with wig and brick on head as he reads.  too perfect J into closet.

J keeps reading as Claire plays piano.  Stuff about kids and photoshop loss of visual history.

Maria enters again with brick on head.  and Best of Life Magazine book

“knees are no longer to be taken for granted.”

J. French accent good.

books yes

 What if we had a chorus of watchers?  This last twenty minutes became really something.

9-10 voice and table

1/14/10 Production Meeting

Costumes

Going well, meeting today

Lighting

Seating set now.  Jake ready to start when he knows more about the set.

Set

Nina’s Cargo Net is in process.  Daniel getting one from Travis AFB, Josh not at meeting.  I want funhouse mirrors and a table, Daniel will see what is in stock.  We will meet Friday at 3 for the cast to go through storage to look for interesting objects.  Spoke about installation event at U-club,  all OK no real need for tech support.

News

We have new SM Roz and ASM Paige. They and Josh and Jake will attend rehearsal tomorrow at 11:30

1/14/10 Costume Meeting/Pulling

Whole cast met in costume shop and went through stacks to pull fantasy costumes. 

Fun.  I got shp captain’s coat and hat.  Maria marilyn Monroe ish dress and wings.

David Elizabethan get up and Viking horns. Jörg Shiny Blue Suit,  Claire got a pile of stuff, but I didn’t really see what it was.

They will bring to U-Club but I need lock up capability, need to get key from Socorro.

I feel slightly overwhelmed with choices.

1/14/10 Rehearsal U-Club

Began slightly late due to costume field trip.

5-6 Individual Warm up

6-7 David lead through a process of enacting a happy childhood memory.

Maria sang with Yoga Mats as dress up costume. Jörg in bed listening to Radio with Parents.  Claire at Beach with her Dad.  Me in car on trip to Crater Lake alone with my Dad.

7-8ish Contact technique exploration

Manipulating Passive Partner, alternating Active and Passive roles, then alternating passive and active

1/15/10 Rehearsal U-Club 10 – 6

10-1045 Individual warm up

1045 – 1130 Maria Leads Group Activity

1130 – 1230 Showing/Watching Improv

Score – Watch at least half the time?  Begin in pairs, but can spit off to watch others, Watching is also valid performance activity.  Audience invited to follow whenever people leave.  Return to material from last four days.

If we have costumes you can play with some but don’t get too distracted by them right now.

1230 – 100 De-Brief Improv

1-2 Individual projects-

Maria – blonde heels, brick, Songs

Claire - ????Crutches used in different way than before? Corsette???

David – Table dance.  Story of Fake legs??

Jörg - ????  Books???? Reading??? Objects??

Jess – Tenerifa Dance Story of leg braces

2-3 Break

3-4 Meet Daniel in Scene shop

Look for interesting objects to interact with.

4-5 Table Work

Voice , pitch matching, rhythm word and image sequence practice

1/16/10Saturday, Rehearsal @U-Club

 10-11 Individual Warm-up

11-12 Claire Group activity – Crutches

Individual Use of crutches in Non-Traditional ways.

Crutch Puppets manipulating each other with crutches

12 -130Individual Projects

130-3 Break

3-5 Open Improv with Costumes and Props

Amazing Improv Set tons of Great images

Jörg Wass Duet Blue suit

Claire with Crutch Puppet

Sergio Leone Trio David/Maria/Jörg

Books on heads

Get on the Bus

Whole world in My hands

Death of the Author

Jess/Jörg/David Rhythm Dance 

Claire and Maria in Blue Sequins Supremes Duet

Jess and Jörg Trumpet Duet Angel Devil

David/maria Gurney Dance

David in Chains

Story/Image Line

1/18/10

Jam

Claire in Suit – plugged in Lights with Godzilla, Washing hands, eating lights

Jörg with

Jörg/Maria kids in the corner. Awe score Orgasm.  Open Mouth

Reading Alan Read 151

1/19/10

Crutch Duet Maria and Claire. Over the Rainbow

Jörg ventriloquist with David.
Death of the Author
What is the movement?

1/20/10 Rehearsal at U-Club

5-6 warm-up

6-8 Guillermo exercises

Gazing

Triptych image exercise

Word Jam – This performance is/not

This performance is:

Beginning

Blue

Confusing

A sextet

Trees and squirrels

Unique

A movie

Challenging

Challenging stereotypes

In gravitation

An open door

Free space

Imagining new bodies

Turning itself over

Fluid/ fluids

Looking for cows (in the footnotes)

This performance is not:

Set

Knowing what it is yet

Structured

Finished

Product

A competition

Wedding

A bike race

Politically correct

America is:

Flat

Soggy

Mixed up

Not what I thought it was

Wet

Afraid

Like being in a movie

Wrapped in a flag

Fat

Drinking coffee

Cup holders

Sugar induced enthusiasm

Inaccessible

America is not:

Aware of wine

Aware of lying

Aware of subtlety

Appreciative of sarcasm

Italy

Only black

Only white

Only red

Accessible

My body is:

Inaccessible

Germany

Memory

Slower than it was

Juicy

Not as bouncy as it was

Stronger than it was

Unique

My body is not

Authentic

Balletic

Orange

French

Female

Tall enough

Young enough

Yours

Mine

Thin enough

Being

Only man

Separate from me

The images I remember I have created in the last days:

Climbing on a lion

Dancing with a mannequin

Being lion

Barefoot space man

Moustache

Roller-skating

Maria roller-skating in a blonde wig

Pretending to wear glasses

Reading

Thinking

Jorg in a white wig and a blue suit

Clare with a cigarette

Clare in Maria in blue sequins dancing to disco

I do what I do because if I didn’t:

I’d still be postman

I would be married

I would still be living in Kilmarnock

I would have four children

I would be in jail

Somebody else would

I would have developed cancer because of the proximity of my mother

I'd be found face down in a river

I wake up every day and fight against my inner demons, enigmatic insects:

Fear of women

Hatred of men

The world

The world as I see it

Fear of being mediocre

Sleep

The unknown

Aging

Longing for a belief

If I could do anything I want with this performance I would:

Make people feel more alive in their own bodies

Make people question their own perceptions

Offer my body to any one who wants to take it

Eat myself

Ride 20miles on a bicycle with the entire audience following me

Change identity 20 times

Improv Jam 8:30 -10

Jörg in blue

Maria in Fat Blonde Skating

Sitting on Chests

Sitting on Jess

Reading Alan Read at Table

Maria at Board

David in Black Glove

Claire in Fire Suit

Jörg Striptease/ Jess and David watch in Symmetry/Jess on Bass

David in Chains/Maria Skates

Maria Skates/Gurney/David Chair

Jess on Bike

David Red jacket.

Death of Representation, Militarism, sexual objectification, Colonialism

1/21/10 Production Meeting

My questions

Mondavi rehearsals?- not but maybe a visit.

Unplugged issues??

Costume long term. – Can work out to take them with us after Davis.

Make-up expert? – Jessica somebody we should meet next week

chorus??

Sound System

Report from US

Costumes

final fittings begin next Wednesday

PR – Janice

On track

Set- Josh

Exploded Art Gallery

When can we see, will show.

Light-Jake

Laptop images for Nina?

1/21 Rehearsal U-Club 5-11pm

5-6 Warm-up

6-8 Guillermo exercises

Partner Gazing with Moving

“Raw Material” – See, Smell, listen, touch

Make an image with “raw material”

Make an image “ Non-Fictional Bodies”

Break – Kaino Food

830-10 Imrov Jam

Set up and did one hour jam

Limitations - Confined to center space and only one costume.

Jörg Blue Suit, David Red Jacket and Glove, Maria Fat Suit, Claire Grey suit(s)

Memorables,

 Claire and Jörg on Blocks,

Hand Improv

Maria Crying/Breathing at books

Gurney/Wheel Chair duet

Jess on Bike

De Brief –

Sort of almost meltdown at Bistro Bar,  Claire is feeling freaked about improvising publicly,  Freaked about improvising in general.  David wants to know what we are doing? 

Guillermo is encouraging in a way – Saying” you are not really directing, it’s great.”  But this feels a bit weird, especially coming from him.  Thank God for Jörg who is mostly ready to go for anything and willing even to push into weirder less formed territory than anyone.

1/22/10 Rehearsal U club 12-6pm

12-1 Warmup

1-230 Jess Group motion

Shake,

Zambrano architecture

Dance “inside your body”

Make a move

230 – 345 Guillermo  

Repeat Call and Response exercise.

Performance is:

Showing your stuff
Place for failure
Spider in my bed
A form of control
My job

Performance is not:

Good
Bad
Easy
Like being a postman
A marriage counselor
Church

My community is:

Fractured
Shifting
My collection of books
The people who ride my bus
Non existent
Memory
Imagined
On film
In my head
In my body

My community is not:

Easily described
Here
One thing
Just people
Traditional
Imaginary animals and friends

I am feminine when:

When I listen
When I talk
When I am only with men
In bed with my lover
When I slide
I’m in my head
Masculine
I feel peer pressure
I talk too loud
I try to be standing
I interrupt
When I'm with the rest of the boys

If I could transform the world with my imagination there would be:

No cats
No white light
No computer
No cell phones
Enough food for everyone
Champagne would be free
Wouldn’t be cops, teachers
More singing
More hugging
No memory of Freud
Public transit everywhere
Processed foods
Commercials
No TV
Easier to make friends
No judgment
Less violence
No stairs

Tryptichs, more visual, more meaningful, “Some aspect of yourself.

Improv Jam

Make a score for yourself and write it down without telling anyone else what it is.  Can include activities that require others, but you’re not allowed to tell before hand

My Score

Score for run through

Ride Bike

Breathe in Glove

Read Suzie Orbach

Foot Dance with David

Crutch on Neck

Pajamas on Gurney

Death of the Author

Sitting on Chest

Play Bass

Admiral Cap

Wings

Play Bass

Sing something

Actually Did

Naked in Audience

Naked at Table

Reading Orbach on Table with Keith performance reading style.

Bike with Globe and trophy,  Whole world in my veins

Crash

Crawl across space on back with trophy on chest

Gurney in Pajamas with

Get spun

Death of the Author
Text -tell the Moral of the Story.  What does it all mean,  What do you want it (the performance) to do?

Post run-through thoughts.

This was a good exercise,  we start to have a pool of returning images that re-inform each other in different ways as they return.  Guillermo’s work has definitely bumped up the level on visuality and symbolic content. at least for me and I think for the others as well.

Need to try

Everyone Starts Normally dressed, move toward fantasy images

Everyone make your best dance solo

Everyone make cool moves to create group dance.

Everyone make an image of your death.???

1/25/10 Rehearsal U Club

Warm up 5-615

Jess – Dance is??

Jess –Contact dialogs with Sound what you do

These were great and should be in the show somewhere.

Check in – Some more of the same.

All are tired, need two days off and less rain.

David starting to get it I think, Claire trying to hang in there on the improv material.

Improv Jam 845-10

Score

Began with sitting in street clothes- keeper.

Crutch Bridge/Frame – Keeper

Hand Clap Sound score??

Jess naked in Audience -??

Reading Book Naked at table event- Keeper??

 Claire – Start in Grey Costume tonight save red dress for after fire man-

Jörg Afro wig better – Like blue thing on ground more than on tie.

David – Black Glasses better – Do we need more?

Black Glove to Jess (touch me would be strong)

Roz – need bike water bottle(s)

Maria costume change sooner
Claire
David – Light my fire - keeper

1/26/10 Rehearsal

Center Persona exercise

Each person gets 30 minutes with everyoneelse questioning and suggesting.

1/27/10 Rehearsal at U-Club

 Lost this one.

1/28/10 Rehearsal at U-Club

7-10 Improv Jam

Quick Notes from 1/28/10

3 hour improv -  feel incredibly sad. 

How do we find joy?  I am not afraid to make a sad piece.  A piece about loss and longing.  about letting go.  About what feels difficult or even impossible.

But it’s a challenge.

Can’t tell where the personal is totally overshadowing the art.  How much do I let in.

I liked our diagonal line to begin.
Gazing at the mannequin then Claire took it away.

put half a mannequin back in her place.

liked the books getting in there already.

Book dance??

How do we have an outside eye?  How can I be an outside eye?  Music?  need something up or we are going to kill them, and ourselves.

Death is a bit strong heredon’t need the piece to die for us

Riding is hard in shoes.  didn’t do the song and I feel like it loses the clarity of the image. image is clearer with,  has a point of view.

Costume installation?  was nice to do.

Jörg/Maria/ David trio was nice with nudity.

Feel like dyin.

 Jess torture felt strong.

Rowing Gurney into cooler was nice, with an audience I would have stayed longer.

got stuck in catatonia with Maria on Gurney 2nd time.

We are dark.

Multiple ipod’s were nice actually

Sad there is no live music.

Jörg playing with recording was nice.

1/29/10 Installation Performance U-Club

David adjusting me to match mannequin

Claire’s crutches in my mouth

Claire with shoes on Crutches

Claire Transporting stuff

Audience members with love glasses on

Maria tapes knee pads

Jörg with crazy lady dance  

Jörg and Maria Dance David as hippie

twirling Maria on gurney

Jörg red riding hood

Claire Kitchen crutche sculpture

Jörg feet manipulations

Jess on Gurney in Cooler

Davidblack hand and jörg red riding hood

ending with teabagging

Maria engages boy at table with book

Maria chubby go go girl on skates on block

Jess long rolling down hall

J/M/D statues on blocks

Maria lipsyncks sandman

Jörg is naked a long time

Sergio Leone Trio to staya little longer

Maria and Jörg discodance  

Maria skates

Jess on Bike goes to dark

Claire in Fire Suit arranges lights

jess and Claire Dance/ Guillermo speaks nahuatl

Maria asks audience to express their frustration

Claire fire suit as dress

David Chains across floor

Jess Dancey solo

Jörg squeaking clarinet to Jimi Hendrix

Maria tongue with Godzilla

David and Jess Floor dance 

Claire dances with Red Dress

Maria writes questions at Chalkboard

Interview Jörg with Translation

End lying down.

David and Jess Floor dancenotes

Sitting on

Bouncing

2/1/10 U-Club

Worked with Markers and Index cards to propose a sequence which came surprisingly coherently together.  Who knows if it will actually work and if any of these things actually are anything that anyone wants to really watch.

My own sequence is

Pajamas

Naked at Mannequin?? with Audience??f

Orbach Text??

Slow Rolling Dance with Maria

Death of the Author

Pause

Bike Man Powers Disco

Bike ritual

Bike Man with Astronaut

Bike Man with David Red Man Dance 

Interview??

Sleep

2/2/10 U-Club (Jörg’s birthday)

Warm up 5-6

Run through630-730

8-10 work on sections

2/3/10

Off

2/4/10 Studio Theater Modavi

First night in the Mondavi.

6-7 Load in- Spacing Culled Set

7-930 Work Second Half

930-1030 Run thru

We have a draft that works, see excel sheet. at least in terms of being able to get through it.  There are lots fo things to work on, but that’s the fun of it.

thoughts/Notes from run through

2/5/10

Individual sessions

Run Thruough 6-830

Bodies are pre-show

Claire is go-show

Bring Black Gove in

Claire take hklto tub!

try line again

need light here not drama

need music under space man not normal Claire

Men working on 2nd entrance??

540 First Get up -Need to see faces here

Claire bring arm to Mannequin

Need General light here and lighter music

Jörg black pants wrong – jeans?

David/Maria Yellow and Jörg Jess Arm should be simultaneous and lit

Claire entrance good.  could get there sooner.

Jörg - Sock Dance too much  with Claire – get to Blue man Change sooner? and re-think this placement – Tub??

Big Gap in Crutch approach

Jörg and jess Dress and Undress???

David can you work my arms all the way up

Re place Mannequin SRDavid Go SR after Mannequin manip

Käse section

Claire up faster after Fall Can you get up and B- boya little more to the music

Re-placeClaire DS Jørg US David by me at Mannequin, Maria near board already

Jörg get to blocks for end of “number”

Claire leave it a pyramid – less crutches

Strip Tease not its own section. Overlap with Dreams

David sleep in Pyramid - Claire Bring  Bunny with Fire Suit - to tub (with fire suit ?)- And then take Crutches.

Should glove come with Fire Suit???

 

Notes 2/7/10

Gurney for middle

Shave yes

Robe in Fridge. - What else?

Breath in more places

Longer sound in Dark B4 Claire Entrance

Claire bring fat suit to Maria

Claire and David need interaction before “In Dreams”

Claire bring Godzilla (To Fridge??)  in Bike/Space Leave open to light David/Chains

Claire Dance – Six Crutches yes,  warm –up moves yes, Conjure the space.

Final Dance/Die –in?????  Kool-Aid in the fridge??  Champagne??

Video Notes

4:29 Claire first entrance

Light – meeds to be long fade for first Claire Is there a bit of light on mannequins 

breath sound yes – could be more.

Strike the pale panels if they

Claire first change too long -  walking beautiful – good leg placement

moving light??

choreography of waking upbe one of 4 pretty good.  could be a little more often

K- Jörg’s pants

L - I am out of light??

C- Something for Sound 2n d Carry

C- fat suit to Maria

D- Neck Strap on Glasses?

M- Changing next to board is good.

J- Shoes first. Parallel w/ Maria good.  Formalize more.  maybe turn around.

Jörg – Change when?  Can you slightly sooner so mor overlap with me

Claire – circle David with Chain

Sound good – Maybe too much werft (really a question) for Jörg or maybe not

19:37Corner duets

jake Can we pick out corners during M/D, J/J

Claire one more pass with objects and make it more stylized

M- Jorg dressing sooner bring individual objects from the gurney right away.

Matt – Käse should start with Skating

Have to work this whole section

Jörg silly stuff first.

Jörg - Undressing by the chimes –

Maria write during

Claire Spiral Cross really good

David come to meet Claire Center not Crutches – Crutch puppet manipulation?  Investigate her.

Light to Maria first – then MusicJörg Awaydon’t need you naked let’s get a G-String

End of song just Maria and David

Maria not Mike stand but Chalk thing

Need to work this Transition to Lion Tamer

When does the light change?

J- Great bunny reveal

Need light for David’s head on lift

Pause at waist on the way down

David Turn towatchJörg Müller before change –

Timing on Sound cue for Morriconehappens when David is Center

David should reveal gold out fit on first Music.

Jörg Flat back more flat

David see them now

Moving light need sto be there already

Should flat cover entrance like for Nina’s?

Light in Fridgefor Godzilla then light David beginning,

Yes Breath in this – Claire Bring Godzilla(to fridge?)

then work your way back from the bike down the light strand to build something with the lights

2/9/10 notes

Jess Entrance for bike sooner

need light on bike

good breath cross fade for end of lion

good active hands David

Cue for Claire vocals??

Fridge opening, david changing??  off stage>>

leave fridge open

Claire walk to end of string.Stay US Form into circle around yourself or spiral

Wrap around your body?? Form into something then eat put on Zimmer frame??

leave suit at Gurney

Light - Maria pass at same level as David?? Need to write this

Maria travel more sooner

breath at end

Light – light my fire in Spots still until dance break and then to line

slower in steps mariarehearse timing

David undress Claire from Suit.

Claire go to dress in Underwear??
Choreography works
I died at same time
go to Flat Light look in transition to Red Dress and maybe once afterward too. as Claire dances

Can we get a second mike stand for Claireuiop
Claire Material

Grey Suits- Crutch Puppet

Fire Suit - Science Fiction – Bodies of the Future.

Maria Crutch Manipulation and head Duets

Red Dress Crutch Puppet

Crutch Dance Solo – Square Dance - Canoe

Blue Sequins Duet/Disco/Singing/Dancing??

Music-Songs- Vocalization at the Mike

Singing from Off

Jörg Material

Blue Man w/ Wass

Strip Tease

Trumpet Music

Sergio Leone Trio

Jörg playing Miles

David Material

Black Hand/Red Suit Man

Skate w/ Maria

Floor Duet with Jess

Reds with Calire

Top Hat gold Vest Man

Chains

Sergio Leone Trio

Light my fire Karaoke

Maria Material

Skating in Fat Suit

Writing on Chalk board explicating

Question asking

Zizek Text

 “The Man I love” with Removals

Contemporary DanceSolo

Sergio Leone Trio

On Skates with David.

head and Crutch Duets with Claire

Jess material

Bike Stand w/ lights

Crutch Duet w/ Claire

Little bike – Whole world song

Orbach text/

Dead Author

Floor Duet with David

Long Slow Roll down hall – Solo

Long Slow Roll down hall – With Maria

Duets

David and Maria on Skates

Claire and Jörg Crutch Gazing

Claire and Maria Crutch Puppet

Chest Sitting??

David and Jess- floor Dance  

Claire and Jess – Bike/Lights Fire Suit.

Jess And Maria slow roll

Group Material

Opening on Floor

Sitting at Table Passing

Sergio Leone Trio

Closing on floor

Jörg/David/Maria on pedestals.

Musical material

Claire Song(s)

Maria -Queen Lip synch sing-a-long

Maria “ Tu me fai Girar”

Trumpet w/ Miles recording

Trumpet Duet

Trumpet and Bass

David “Light my fire”

Jess“Whole World Song”

Keepers

Jörg as Blue Man/White wig

Maria in Fat Suit/Skates

Claire in Fire Suit

Jess on bike

David??

Material Ideas

Chorus of watchers

4 manipulate one.

Jess Gomera dance 

Jess on Bike

Material manifested at least once

Maria “Man I love” on white board

Maria “Tu me fai girar” lipsync

Maria Blonde with brick on head

J/D Duet

C/M head Duet -

Table Rhythms

Claire reads book

Jörg reads book

David Table Dance

Crossing space in Contact asking question

Fall 2010

Berlin Creation Period, Potsdam, Liverpool Previews and Berlin World Premiere

10/25/10 – Uferstudios – Studio 2 – First day back

Jörg not arrived yet.  Loaded into studio and did individual sessions with Claire and Maria. Still waiting on second box of props and costumes.  Studio is big, warm and beautiful.  Such a pleasure to be able to work here.  Fresh sound system, fresh Marley floor ( hope we don’t fuck it up too much). Still a bit of construction going on as they are still hanging the trusses for lights etc.

Claire session 1pm – 3pm

Worked on Claire’s Virtual Reality Hands solo.  Finally got to talk more about what she is doing there, working with her ‘butoh’ warm-up. moving, but interrupting as soon as a pattern becomes recognizable, she begins with thumbs, then moves to fingers and up arms until includes whole body.

I asked her to vary speed more, notice when an action associated to some realistic activity and interrupt this as well.

Worked with taking more time and letting some things really slow down.  Overall quality should remain somewhat frantic though, or maybe more like rapid with skill born out of familiarity.

also to notice, play withand interrupt symmetry.

IN play with crutches play between.  Crutch as object, Crutch as extension of self, Crutch as supportive elelment of the environment, Crutch as manipulator of the environment.

Once she begins to open out into space stay 3 dinmensional.  Careful about pulling both crutches off floor. Can still return to sitting on one at any time.

 slowing down and working with these variation this began to last 15 minutes

Maria

Worked with stuffing clothes. Not as interesting as fat suit which has built-in theatricality and simplicity. Asked Daniela to build another fat suit.

Worked with Roller skates. Especially interesting to work without letting them roll, so they become strange vestigial appendage.  Going to floor nice. Walking and building up to a run is nice.  Rolling floor work works.  could make ballet, en-pointe reference, but Maria not so interested.  I kind of like as silly reference.

Need to fix skate brake pads.

10/26/10

Had a nice class to begin the day.  5 students.

Maria, Claire, Bridge, Matthias, Daniela and then Yoann were all there.

Started with Remedial Curtis technique, working with porprioception, then did 30 minute observing exercise.  Would have gone longer but Matthias had to catch a train.

Then took a break.

Then we did a 30 minute say what you’re doing improv.  Nice sequence.  I am lazy,  The glove is disgusting, wonder

Keepers –

Boxing Gloves on Crutches

Elk Skull on Crutches

Elk Skull anywhere.

Maria and Claire in old Rigging Harnesses and Skates and Crutches.

Notes for Daniela

We need some kind of chalkboard.  And, or something for Maria to rehearse with(big paper pads and markers?)

10/27/10

Waking up this morning anxious and troubled.  Not sure how to work exactly in this moment.  All of a sudden the status and PR investment we have poured into the installations feels a bit like a trap and I am feeling pressure that they should somehow be entertaining on a level I had not worried about before.  Thinking about format and duration and should we have a score.  How free should it be for improvising?  Is it valid just to do everything longer?  All these questions.  Scaring the shit out of me a bit.

I have to say that I kind of like this troubled morning state somehow though. Feels like a growing engagement with the actual creation of the piece that is more interesting than waking up worrying about the visa applications.  More interesting problems to solve.

Today’s Projects

Maria on Chalkboard/ lipsynch song

Claire with Objects

Bridge/Glove/

Sasha/Maria

Time for Music at 4?

Impro – Open Set?gjk

10/28/10

Working more physically is theme.  Maria leads through shaking warm-up etc.

I lead through Manipulation duets.

We make moves as though being manipulated.  combine into phrase.

Improv

Claire and Bridge as back-up singers with Claire hand/arm movement.

Jess on Walker – Claire calling ‘faker’

Jess – head stand in toilet, balancing with–talk through

Maria working in chalk board

Irene Notes –

he tennis ball with the crutches: Hockey (Le crutch), golf, billiards, tennis.

- Duet J+B= J playing with the walker: turning, exploring it, balancing it, making it more comfortable…

B Poses-dance in his side

- J talking mic:

1. About the process, ideas, "I always talk a lot during the process but anything seems interesting enough to go to stage"

2. About broadcast, Facebook, dancing, talking

3. About his father and his situation(he needs help to move). connection with the walker. M+C talking on top words that rime: faker, talker, -er,

- B dancing with the music with the head covert with the T-shirt

- M+C duet dancing class: kind of unison rehearsing classical dance steps

- J Making shadows on the projection on the wall. Small movement sequence walking in a line

- M+C+B Singing "Where did the love go". M is the main voice, B+C accompanying. There are parts of the song where they don't know the lyrics.

- M writing on the board. going to the mic and trying to talk, after the 3rd try the mic is on and she reads what she wrote- playing also with the order.

- J rolling on the floor and doing the moved-dance phrase and putting enphasi on some movements with a repetition. There is a connection with the music

- C+B duet standing.back up singers / harms-dance and gradually taking it into the hole body

- image: J headstand on the toilet with the walker, the paper (blackboard) hanging referring his shape, M facing the wall with the blond wig, C in the other side of the room headstand on the crutches, Mth talking in German

Observations:

- What is an honest dance?

- sift from action to making a landscape: Action-image-let it resonate

- Where are common physicalities?

- Potential in the misunderstanding

10/29/10

worked with Maria on “ Contemporary Dance.”  She is in resistance mode and won’t go with any of my first suggestions, variation of Say what you do.

I realize I am mostly pretty happy with how this material looks as she improvises her way across the stage anyway, but keep trying. Partly responding to her desire to ‘be directed”.  Translation she wants to be directed but in the very particular ways she understands as ‘being directed.’ What I ask of her is apparently not directing, and only freezes her own process.  this reminds me so much of last project with Sara and Contraband.  I am a little sad to acknowledge that this feels like the last thing we will do together.  Working like this is not that fun or useful, although if you can hang in there and keep your sanity and use what comes up on the right way, it can produce very strong work. (Mira Cycle II)

Maria repeat as punctuation insolo

Work with Bridge on ‘presence’.

Work with Bridge and Claire on arms as duet.

11/1/10

First day with Jörg.  Claire, Bridge and Matthias all there. 

No Maria

Mira, Daniela, Irene also there

Clarie led session with crutches – ended with subtle improv from corners all executing “Contemporary crutch technique.”  Spinal meditation at corners and then approach gradually building up speed/frequency.

11/8/10

Chaotic day beginning in new studio space.  U-bahn gesperrt and Maria sick.   Did Sensing work with Bridge Claire and Jörg (Subject/Object) and worked on first section as 1 hour installation score.

Video Notes

2:10 Don’t need space man here maybe?

Guillermo could appear on Matthias computer as well?

Bridge still too much.  Less n general and not affected.

Claire stairs good.  Start with normal stairs though.

B – No dancing for a long time. Just be present in your body.

Claire –Yes eventually both sides.

Daniela/Claire Object arrangement design

11:20 Claire Second trip

Bridge Kneeling/looking good – yes Be patient

Mannequin in mirror cool.

Matthias entrance good – Carry more??

‘A day’ as dramaturgy

Face cover is too tricky, need to se your eyes and face here. Or the object needs to be more special.

‘neutral’ costumesneed to be set.  changing, not in center.

No choreography.

Eyes/Sensing/ Beign Present.  all the objects are precious.  fold and place.

We all need to see each other a bit more.  Be available to eye contact.

Jörg Fridge is good.

B- Wall, focus on the feeling with your hand it is not a side issue the touch should lead you through the objects.  not about showing the hand.  Do less, Feelmore Hand should be the center not the periphery.

Reading???  thinking is Moving – Like this text, Micro phone?

Fridge should be upstage.

B- Walk aroundfridge is good, but I need to feel the motivation in your senses.

Pointing up not it.  or needs to be really specific.

Claire- Could hit me harder if this comes up again.  or bonk on head.

B- with Globe good,  want to see more detail in your fingers.

M and J – Spacing (Generally all is to much to SR)  What was this interaction.

B- See you searching.   need your face.  the Gender discourse needs to be a little simpler at first. This section should be more ‘male’  Moustache ad glasses.  don’t try so hard.

11/9/10

Red Riding Hood

Good work with Bridge, pulling her back into simple.  Red Riding hood becomes something

Lions

Claire as part of this

End on fridge??

Silly and fun Lion Balances and Bridge as ring master.

40 minute run through from “in dreams” through bike and dance section. 

Hard day - Maria suggested maybe she needs to drop out of project.

Budget is somehow a little fucked.  I am tired.

Video notes: Try Fridge USR

Where does Bridge sit?  Already CS on Floor?

Jörg should be dressing during song and come through the audience.

Bridge dance in Center?  Is this a place for choreography?

Jess walking with Walker?

Re learn Tactus

Bridge – socks? Shoes? don’t cover with left shoulder. Move back but don’t turn away.  The sit is too formal.  Jörg touch return I s good.

Low level reach and hand grab is great. How do we get Jörg to the floor.  Box is too blow job I think.

Where do we dress?

Bridge either transition to Lion Tameer in center

Maria enter as Lion. soon. Hold space.

Maria writes on Chalk Board the lyrics to “The man I love” and pulls down her pants.

Maria removes words from the song.

Maria describes actions

Interogates actions in the space

Does she have a voice?

Afterthoughts

What are potential long images?  Could lions have a whole section of their own and interact with both Claire and Bridge (me or Matthias??)

What if everyone picked one look to be in for a whole hour?

11/10/10

Improv Run - Third section material.

Bridge in Mirror yes

Jörg hanging clothes yes

B- Godzilla not it.  Still too much motion.

Ekain isgreat with Matthias

J- Walker slow with gazing – needs “ faker acknowledgement.

Bridge – what would relation to Godzilla be.

Tulip song not here.  I don’t understand any of the words.

Bridge on Podest is good

Stilness is nice

J- toilet head.

Jörg Dance as blue man in gloves

Maria still still

Everyone dancing to ‘Light My Fire” is good again.

Jörg Parcours yes

Maria Jörg in corner

Je- speaking about image

Matthias interviews

Fallen is ‘cheesy’

Development of the work

Ekain beats yes

Maria dances

Everyone dances,  Chalkboard in center as divider.

Nice dancing Bridge

Trying to get on Fridge

Maria -Lip Sync Bach?

Maria down with Pants down. Skates Down at End.

Brdge in Final section?  Become Girl?

‘Making of’ Video

11-11-10

Photos with Sven today on Location. One at a time excursions with him out to Wedding locations for staged photos with each persona.

11-12-10

Video Notes from First Half Run

Floor spacing good.

Recording good

Foil yes

Still simpler Bridge, Don’t do just see and hear and reorganize the body to support that

Bridge face covering not.  Dressing center? not sure.  Until you have changed hold back on performing?  No choreography. here.

SaveBridge technique for Silver girl.

See, be seen, change into a costume.

Maria chalkboard needs to be down.

Maria meditation is not it yet.  need you visually present.  You disappear behindthe balustrade.

Bridge changing not in corner.  The costume change is the dance.  Yes at mirror. Moustache immediately.

Bridge yes to touch.  Maria should be down and available for this. Yes to Glasses and what that does to your vision and touch relationship. Think of giving your self a feldenkrais session. Touching also the space and the objects. the glove needs to lead you into the space. 

Jess could wait longer for switch to mannequin.

Really missing roller skating here.

Bridge back and forth from me to Mannequin is good.

39:00 Would like the Käse music or something uptempo about here.

43:00 mddle of Käse

In Dreams – Jess sounding??

Why are we all stuck right?

Jörg could come to me with arm

Bridge not repeat with ∆örg’s foam. need to find own object.. and it’s OK to leave space here.  Come up??

Bike

Shadows against wall are nice, strange. distorted body.

bridge stillness in dark is good.

need Maria in space.

Counterbalance walk with underwear on legs is good.

Bridge pull pants down?

Blow job?

work this duet if it makes you happier.

counterbalances, touch, penises, soft manipulations, contact

Could this go straight into Lions?  Maria enter?

Can glasses stay on?

Video Notes 2nd Half came in here

Bridge and Jörg Moustaches minimal

Bridge something about dancing, need to find more interesting quality here. and your own objects.

Video solos like during big music.

Bridget this dance is not it here.

Br- when lost Center is not the place to hang out.

Could have been an improv based on one of the choreographies here.

Problem is going from Jörg straight to ∆örg.

We just need to set the Red riding hood sequence and end with the glove in Jörgs teeth and his becoming an animal.

Yoann what are you thinking here for projection??  Strange close up obects in black and white are great.  Object close ups?? hThis contrast stuff needs to be full stage.

19:58Bridge stay simple, stay with audience.

Space man needs much more time alone.

Bridge the dress needs a physicality, but not this one. and should stay away much longer.  Would rather have you still than this.

Yoann Bodies on Mannequin is really freaky good

Jess needs towel.

Maria and Jörg should be alone and could start much later. More DS after cycling is finished.

Bridge in audience?  Show Lee Bowery book?

Claire in tub

Jess shuffling how loud is it really?  Maybe too much.

Jörg and Maria Duet can be silent?

Tulip is weird here I think.

Duet should get full focus

Mobile quote? I like it here. Are we allowed to quote ourselves from other pieces.

Does this need to end here?

Interview should go after Light My Fire

11/15/10

2nd Half Run thru -Video Notes

Bridge Good – Hand to pocket

B and Jrg Copy Score big yes.

Jörg neutral here?  Leave Flower for strip in first half.

BR- Pointing habit not necessary. at each other good.

respnse to kiss? male? female?

Sit on toilet?

Transition to Lion Tamer can take longer.

Lions

Work mechanics of blocks – too close together.

 Br- Work on swagger.

Set up lights as circus ring.

Bridge costume??  Shirt?  Pants?  Tape on Tits?

Maria- Shiny pants??

Don’t play only to front.

Animal quality is great.

Where is Claire through all of this.

Matthias more heroic??

Fridge light?

Lions End

How do we transition?

Go to full empty stage except for bike.

New Music for Claire Should precede Claire.

Maria in matter of fact body should come later.  Let Magic space exist first.

Jörg as lion remaining is nice.

Not sure foil as space girl reads: Would need to be lit.

 Focus on lights after Godzilla?

Too much neutral body in the middle Mariathis should wait til later in Claire –

make JM Duet in House facing other way.

Don’t begin so soon. Sit but wait until Claire is finished with Lights.

Jess Cuddle with Claire?

Bridge in Audience Make dance with someone on other side.

Jess/Claire find Space man Cyclist Dance.

make 3 ‘touching’ Duets

44:20 Like this music Matthias.  Jangly strings.

Coming to boxes is somehow nice but could also be ‘edge of pool’.

M&J stillness

What object does silver Girl Resonate with?

What is her reltion to ‘the couple’  to the wigs?Does she get in between and confuse things??? Get involved spatially or in contact with them?

Yoann

to the mannequin?

Recapture Choreo for Light my fire.

Matthias

Claire shadow/morror boxing good.

Bridge, make this dance in and out of floor. or be a ghost that comes to softly touch everyone.

Inhibit frontal focus.

Jess begin falls slow. 

Maria to Mic here?

Jess_ Spiral fall dance is

Jörg Trumpet in Audience?

Trying to connect to Claire.

Matthias I like the medical sound.

Maria nice mannequin move to replace you at Board

 Still want your voice here.

Claire and Constructed Body is missing

11/16/10

Run through of Installation - Video Notes

Floor good – Br-Opening is flat on back neutral not sleep position.

10:00All good to here

Daniela – Presentation of objects??

Claire -Cushions dampening movement interest??

14:00Gazing Apparent –Bodies moving, good

Bridge Hat or Not?  Reveal?

Jörg Broom good

20:00J. M. B, still sitting – I’m imagining you are all seeing audience. Eyecontact possible.

22:00Bridge still formal – not casual head scratches in center.

Don’t undress sitting/center. Wearing tights? Socks?  Should have shoes to start.

Maria Good reveal of clothes.

Keep seeing during dressing.

Music??

Claire Godzilla should be from beginning in Audience I think.

Jörg parcours balance is nice. Why second T-shirt? should become Blue man sooner??

Bridge two gloves. and keep them on.

30 is dying.

Bridge feel Maria more (not literally) and sooner ( literally)  Need to see the struggle to make contact. touch yourself is fine when alone, but when you are both there it needs to get between you.

36:00 - Jörg – Think you shoud already be in shorts for the big jump

38:00 – Bridge with Maria – Definitely both hands need gloves

39:00 like this build in sound.

Space should stay light.

42: 00 Maria video with Guillermo Text is good. here.

Bridge on Box movement.?? Less more living statue. More spine, Pelvis knees.

Bridge, don’t like socks shoes or feet.  shoes I think.

video Figures with Bridge on box good. Is light reduction necessary here for video figure is better on screen with skeletons.

Hand over hand score possible here? 

50:00 Feels long here. Bridge.

54: 00 Is Chair blocking Claire?  Claire could come center with Crutches

Bridge fold my cock back or ask me to.

When in doubt more light. Area light unless the video needs to be revealed.

Maria – the man I love?? Why not writing this??

58: 00 Matthias all the cello is getting plink plonky.

1:00 - Bridge – Chair should go back to desk after Mannequin

What if you just repeat Käse several times and then fuck it up?

Bridge??? – Sitting would be OK at table, tolet or tub. Some traveling hereand work with Jörg on foam trickwith Gloves,  don’t take of gloves lightly.

Claire crawling in walker is great.

tony/jess spike light focuses.

Bridge – Clap would work with both gloves.

Yoann – Jorg face on tower good.  think sound not.

1:17

Jörg -  what if you went straight to wall. with flower penis and Bridge joined you there.

1:29 big hole.  Yes to Jørg and Bridge at the wall here straight away.  Yes to bridge stay in the bathroom more.

Like the Music here.Distorted cello and voice, coul continue

Bike ride at 1:23

Yoann - Video Patterns on floor are verynice.

Bridge go to wall with Jörg first and join Claire later?

Tght spot on Claire for hands – Claire could you face opposite way

1:30 etc. Matthias – Like the distorted guitar over the the ukulele

Should go straight to wall Jörg if it’s in this order.

Cut profiler off floor for Claire hands thing.

What if Bridge was packing the Bunny.

Claire would be nice if Hands were happening in the house/square already

Yoann Hand video yes.

1:40this noise is too much.  or?

 1:45 – Lions

Bridge – ‘Hup’ and less.

follow spots here. Irene and

Matthias just press the button on this. and cut

do the whole thing in the corner at the fridge with lights around and to music.

Bridge don’t over macho this. more matter of fact.

2:03 Spaceman

Fridge needs to be plugged in and should have some color.

Yoann – head projection on space blanket here? at beginning? or follow spot on space blanket.

Claire can you see/ circle face.  set the place with Yoann SL let Claire come to that

Faces as background light is great. maybe not text sound though.

Beautiful,

Would be magical if we could control the on off consistently

Jess Close fridge??? yes

Still ness in dark is nice.

FS – need Light on couple?

2:20

Keep it facng in and really DS until you need to move to get clothes.

Less joke on knee pad etc.

wigs first thing

Improv is fun, trust it but keep it about each other. and more in proximity.

2:38 Rhythm sound not bad (tambourine.

Bridge work against the rhythm.

good ending at Fridge recalls lions.

Bridge feel the weight of the horns, let that be thae dance not just the picture on top of your normal dance.

2:43 Toilet Head.

Claire need to get in Tub here?

11/17/10

0:00

Light – Good with Flourescents at opening

20;00 First Move, Me –

22:00Jörg on rail - Light shift? Add stage lights?

Bridge Great at Mirror with hat off.

26:00 Jörg with Audience Dance 

Light – Good catch of Bridge. etc.

Jörg Thanks for T-Shirt and Shorts.  Good Arm timing.

Fun Arm interaction

32:00 Light Feels dark Missing front?

37:00 Bridgegood- Dcan Foreshadow lion a little , Contact dance through your hand with the difficulty of the Glove.  the trace is great actually, leave it in more planes.  No rush to come back and sit.  feel the space.

Nice Chalkboard dance Maria.  Doesn’t have to face front.

Better Sculpture dance bridge – Feel your insides and your joints. feel the inside of your clothes.  Feel Matthias – While he plays. Need theme more.  Butch vs. Femme???    De Croux Etude?? Wish you had the bunny in.

MatthiasWhat is flavor with Bridge? Could be more melodic

Bridge Make me hide my cock.

Nice Flower dance Jörg Müller

Nice Skate attack Maria

41:00 – 55:00 Not completely sold on cello here this whole way.

 55:00 Kåse is welcome energy and makes good things happen.

Even if it’s fucking up.  Rewind it if it needs to be longer

Bridge play with Bunny in tub? 

SRFresnel When I go to Mirror.

1:02Jörgcould be more onstage, nice shadows be in front of mirror.

Fresnel off when I finish

Can’t find the right focus for side shadows for Jörg and

What is Bridge doing here?

1:06 Nice freeze and shift to bright light Tony (end of song.)

1:08 I like this sound Matthias –

Light - Fresnel Focus??? Let yoann work with projection.

Begin Follow spot focus on Claire (also on Maria still?)

Matthias

Bridge Keep Bunnyand do the score.

Claire House Square is nice but if it fucks you up you can  save it til Bridge leaves

1:10 Yaonn Mannequn good what is floor content. outlines are great figure and had on poster.

1:15 tony Once it’s this Dark stay -  just bring special on Claire and maybe Maria (very tight.

Bridge, take more time with Jörg, this was very short, more time to leave Jörg and see Claire, find Claire, join small andstay between her and Mannequin US and a little behind.  Light will be different.

Daniela/Irene: Clean the Mirror

Tony this should all just be dark, specials and projections.

1:19 Don’t need to rush transition to lions Maria and Jörg -  Could watch the projections and Claire and Bridge for 10 more minutes.

¥oann. Faces big on wall are nice Patterns and mannequin and poster projection

How small will Irises on profilers go.  Don’t need so big so much on floor in front of them.

I want to try Morricone for lions tonight on Bridge’s entrance.

Bridge take the time to shape the arc from Bike.  Good physicalityBridge stay in light.  Hup with energy

Tonysplit follows now (nce on boxes) one for lions one for bridge.

Definitely Morricone   too much undercut dryness here.

11/18/10 -First Installation with public - Notes from Inside

This was definitely a new record for smallest audience for me.  I have done improves in tiny studios for more people.  I think the word is out that we are having problems and the installation moniker is confusing to people.  I think we had 7 paying customers last night.  Luckily everyone else on the crew and add up to about 10 people so we at least get to perform for someone.  But OUCH.  Maria was pissed off and wouldn’t even respond to reach outs.  I hope that can get better.

Video Notes

Matthias Shaman- Maybe book end this.

Bridge – good stage tour – Should still begin with Maria, although I really liked the pat down at the table.

Yoann – Can face on Chalkboard just be Maria?  Each person projection a trace in the space where they mostly work?

Tony – Spot on Maria already when she is writing before lipsynch

Skating in li[psych is great – great in general

Yes to this slo mo moment after song

Jess – remember re-focus of light.

Yoann Projection on Jörg’s tower?   Jörg and Bridge faces on wall when they are there? Or maybe no face right then.  Jörg face is good – MoustacheCould you somehow blend with Bridge?

I miss some of our objects in these patterns on floor

Tony- more light on Claire during hand dance.  All the way through,  She should be most visible thing here.  Light should stay on her until she builds house.  Lions can stay mysterious longer.

Bridge open fridge more.

Tony – light only on Maria not on board very tight and more on Claire.

Matthias take the spot light for Hupa song.

Tony flat light during after song??

Yoann – Claire face as moon from up left to down right to floor

Claire stay on your face..

Bridge balnce points for skull dance. What is the skull searching for, really listen to it.

Parade is great.   Should I wait a little longer to come in or wait at fridge?

Yoann   can’t see karaoke projection right away can we get it sooner and on the skeletons

Bridge Let’s think through the path of the skull –

leave skull for Light myfire. 

Come back to get it for beat music.

Bridge stay off the beat bend your knees think spiral.

Jörg yes to lying on Gurney.

jess last dance with Walker??  Out of balance dance?

Claire you can hit me much harder.  Bridge fend off with Horns?

Yoann – me dancing projection with skeletons??

Yoann -Maria at board at end.

Daniela fix fridge

11/19/10

Second performance run of Installation at

Small house but nice. 

Video’d tonight? (Don’t remember)

11/20/10

Third night – good run – all tired.

David Elliott arrived.

Strike

Fabrik Potsdam Residency week

11/22/10 –

Load out Transport to Potsdam

Monday Night Talk –

Need plan –   Good talk

Scary,  people want to know what everything means and want things more simple.  How do we compress those three hours into a stage length show.

Rehearsal 11/23/10

2-4  PM Work on last section

Maria & Jorg from audience,

Me and Claire,

Bridge in the audience with horns.

Parade

Toilet into Light my fire/ Light my fire dancing

Maria Writing on Board w/ Jörg on cart?

 Jörg play trumpet from laying down????at end??

Do I talk over music or in between

Click Track Ekain

Music for Falling Dance

Yoann Dancers in skeletons, but same size as skeletons

Here should be Bridge and Claire with horns and gloves.

What my relation to each of the women??

Final Image???

Bach Song as Epilogue

Installation Score

Section 1

Claire, Object Delivery, 

Crutch Sculptures,

Hand Improv, Hands with Bridge,

Slow Crutch

Maria

Floor, Yellow Girl, Bridge Interaction, Skating, Writing,

Section 3A

Maria and Jörg –

beautiful

problematic heteronormativity

Section 3B

11/23/10

This is kicking my ass.

Maria Book under table is nice

Matthias Light and sparser through Jörg Müller

Bridge to box after Jög to Jess

Maria and Bridge both touch audience.

Jess and Jörg Arm stuff to get to Mannequin

Bridge Pose is nice

What is Maria doing?

Maria Swing on Rope

 Maria’s face on board good

Jörg balance with shadows good

Matthias brings block good.

Maria video out when Maria begins to write.

Video Order from last Saturday

30:00Matthias up last,  All Dressing

33:00 Matthias Ukulele music

34:00Jörg to Ritual Rest still Dressing

37:00 Jörg finished Ritual, Jess book to Matthias

38:00 Bridge to Maria

39:00 Bridge leaves Maria

40:00 Jörg center with Arm

40:30 Matthias start talking piece, but not too dense

Maria and Bridge both in touch land.

43:00 ∆örg finishes arm sequence

44;00 Jörg meets Jess for Arm stuff

45:40 Bridge on Maria Again

46:00 bridge pulls Maria around

47:00 Bridge releases Maria (could go to Käse now)

Davis version (for comparison)

14:00Jess up last to dressDavid stays center

15:25 Jörg finishes ritual

18:30 Jörg to center with arm, David to dressing

20:30 David at Maria, Jörg at Jess

22:30 Käse begins

23:00 Jörg Dresses, Dvid does Jess/Mannequin, Claire on Crutches, Maria Skates

25:00 Asian Music Jorg balances cylinder

25:30 Drums goes to Maria Circles

26:00 Horns maria pullsClaire

27:00 Mariafalls

27:30 - Jörg tower balance, Claire Hands, Maria writes, David Comes to Claire

28:00 Käse EndsPanzer begins

28:30 Jörg starts strip. Quiet Orbison begins

29:00 David arrives at Claire.

11/23/10

Proposal for Today for opening section

0:00Matthias up last,  All Dressing

3:00 Matthias Ukulele music

4:00Jörg to Ritual Rest still Dressing

7:00 Jörg finished Ritual, Jess book to Matthias

8:00 Bridge to Maria

9:00 Bridge leaves Maria

10:00 Jörg center with Arm

10:30 Matthias start talking piece, but not too dense

Maria and Bridge both in touch score.

13:00 ∆örg finishes arm sequence

14;00 Jörg meets Jess for Arm stuff

16:00 bridge pulls Maria around

17:00 Bridge releases Maria (could go to Käse now)

Käse begins

18:00 Jörg Dresses, Bridge does Jess/Mannequin, Maria Skates Claire on Crutches,

19:00 Asian Music Jorg balances cylinder, Bridge to boxes

20:30 Drums goes to Maria Circles

21:00 Horns maria pulls Claire

22:00 Maria falls

23:30 - Jörg tower balance, Claire Hands, Maria writes, Bridge Comes to Claire ??

24:00 Käse EndsPanzer begins

24:30 Jörg starts strip. Quiet Orbison begins

25:00 Bridge???( arrives at Claire.

Proposal works

Second Session – Worked Bridge and Jörg in Red Riding Hood section went back to old David Toole version with bunny reveal

Then into Lions.

(I think it was this day that Matthias brought his whip and I moved him into the ring master role.   Was such a relief the whip made everything work.)

Then worked -Hapa

Video Notes –

David -Poster too light, or too warm, No columns in opening cue,  still needs more flat feel.  we are too pretty.

Tony - End of house music is our signal for beginning, needs to be precise.

Matthias/Tony no breathing should be after 3 minutes and followed by

Claire come on first sound. come through lights.

David Slower fade in on lights after Claire, Matthias make second track for ccrickets

Music stand in first dark cue.

Level on volume on first vocal track

Claire a little sooner Crickets too soon or Claire too late.  More music for her to exit.

David --Little slower restore on crickets

Set Level on Crickets it was too high.

How to get Claire back sooner.  minute is too long.

Claire take Godzilla to tub at the end.

Gaps too long Viktor should be helping more.

Someone could get up sooner. me go to table on second

Claire – Some kind of more direct interactions after tambourine (ruffle my hair) suit to Maria

Bridge – Un Dressin front of mirror           

25:00 light on Matthias

Matthias – presence Wig sooner??  Let us hear a little bit of the words

Jörg – Come quicker to me when you come.

Too much slo mo walking – Bridge can also be direct.

Light on me and Jörg for Arm.

Käse needs to change more sooner.  35:00 specials and Blue getting darker all the way to roy Orbison.

Maria Skate more center everything is on edges.

Bridge stay on one block.

Maria hit me from side or back.

Jörg come straight to tub

David - need tub bfront light in first riding hood cue.

Music is only arriving at the end of the scene.

Bridge let your hands build to meet and discover Claire.

Yoann Cheerleader here is great.

Really I want the Tactus Dei with Claire singing.  could Claire improvise on a Drone.

Matthias what if went straight to guitar for red Riding hood and then morricone came out of it.

Bridge you can wait longer before changing

Guitar is way too serious for Lions. 

The lions are ironid and this does not seem ironic at all. 

and the ukulele makes no sense if the without the Morricone stopping too soon.

Lions should leave, this trying to sing is not working in the space needs to be something.  Feels like bad amateur hour this way.

2nd Half1:20

Breath sound first as though from Bike. then Music should come with light.  Light could be slower transition.  Music should lead light change Need more music sooner. Claire needs for be ready.     We need to grab them back leadBridge come from Back.

Breath also in toilet head.???

Sooner with light on duet(when Claire lifts up lights?)

Claire stay down after eating lights.

Longer slower fade up (2-3 minutes) after I am off bike.

Jess follow Claire sooner. go faster.

Tony make sure skype is muted.

Light on poster is nice during Maria and Jorg  duet.

Matthias meet Claire at tub or already be there watching Jörg and Maria.

David – Light should stay on in Fridge as long as open.

Bridge stay in audience for beginning of song, then go back into US shadowy area. could you have one of the hands with you at this point. Could you arrive at back of fridge for end of song.

Jess come before end of song, be at Fridge by end of song.

CJess Cut text and just stay in bathroom spin, fall and dance.

Maria fall in spot Jess fall in spot, don’t undress. Bridge lay by desk in special

Jörg lay on Gurney,Matthias on ground next to tub.

Claire get up go to fridge pick up Godzilla and walk away.

David – cut anti blackout and do long slow fade as Claire exits.

11/24/10

Worked lights and sections

Amazing to get to work with tech on this level for the whole week.

Had momentary flip out over laundered feather dress.

David saved the day by making me gout for a beer instead of haning with the rest of the cast.

Tech run

11/25/10

Trimed and tightened. So much happier with new lions and getting the bunny back.

Dress rehearsal

Liking David’s lights a lot.

11/26/10Potsdam Preview

Major relief.  Chopped 10 minutes out of the show from the previous run through. Feels like a show.  Many good responses.  Did it with an intermission through which I cycled.  Sweat a bunch.  New ending. good house. Nice comments after.

Video Notes

What should pre-show music be ? Lynch film references? Other references?

Why did we wait so long to start? Is this the 15 minute light cue?  Let’s start at where this ends.

17:23 House music out.

20:00 Breathing starts

21:00 Music cue.  Light cue should go sooner and first

Can we get more light on Godzilla ?

45:00 Jörg can you dress in a little more light.

46 Maria great timing on gurney take

Matthias on skating sequence??

Claire Crtuch tight rope game??

Jörg should have more light for strip

Really miss front light on Lions (Follow spot or special.)

Maria laugh is good.

1:13 Pause start

1:32 Pause ended

Bridge wait until after Claire for audience interaction.

be on opposite side and back from Jörg and Maria.

Yoann – Claire’s face could get smaller faster.

Jess stay on bike longer, until M& J Stand.

tulip on Jörg’s pants. good

Bridge get to back during Tulip sooner.   Light is more interesting

New Direct path to toilet.

Light my fire dancing is great.

Wigs off is great

fight dance is great

M&Jget to board area sooner.

Jess go to center and then come back to bathroom.

Bridge and Jess Dance longer at end

Maria should have written much more and have time to get Mannequin

Matthias is that recording a particular late.

song is great.

Maria hit the light - mic?

Matthias and Jörg – how to die

Claire leave fridge openas last light?

Matthias computer screen?

Leave in Black until they clap

11/27/10

Great houses here in Potsdam.  After show discussion quite interesting.

Wolfgang Hoffmann doesn’t quite like it.  Says he doesn’t know where to look.

11/28/10

Last night in Potsdam.

Cold and starting to snow

Da Da Fest - Liverpool -Preview

11/30/10

Left Potsdam at night after last show, packed van and drove to Ferry to go to England.  Everything OK with visas and permits at Border.  But we get stuck on the motorway in a giant blizzard and spend the night in the truck.  Arrive much later than planned in Liverpool.

12/1/10

Dead day, we can’t load in here yet.

Could have come a day later. 

This festival is so badly organized.

Theater not at all appropriate.

Multi purpose room style stage, no rise in the seating.

Ugggghh

 12/2/10

One day for build up in sucky room

Show is nearly canceled when someone finds out there is nudity.

Community center director relents if we do a warning announcement.

Maybe 25 in audience

Mary Prestige there though, nice to meet her.

Show warmly received by the few people who made it here.

We strike and have nice hangout with Marc Brew and partner after the show.

12/3/10

I fly to Bonn  

Matthias and Daniela Drive the truck home.

Everyone else flies.

Reconvene in Berlin in a week and a half.

Uferstudios Studio 14- Berlin World Premiere

12/13/10

Load in- decide on riser set up, dance floor, curtains

Hang and focus

(Crazy Snowing in Berlin)

12/15/10

Build up everything

Space dancing

Tony and Ben Program

Tech/Dress

12/16/10 - Berlin World Premiere

Show runs well.

Berliners don’t seem to quite get it.

Visual Artists and foreigners love it.

12/17/10

Second night OK

12/18/10 Ufer Studios Performance

Night three decent crowd.

Morale is mixed.

Video Notes

No sound on recording really

Matthias 1 minute breathing

Tony 30 seconds for lights music fade

Claire very long before second pass with objects

was it offscreen?

bridge – light move is your first touch experience.

Claire walker sooner – too in dark

2nd follow spot should be on Jorg w/ roller

Follow spot stay with Maria as she writes.

Great Shadow with Jörg strip dance.

Jörg can you stay longer   wait til “Just before the dawn”

Bridge feel yourself in the tub??

B- How to make the mounting of the tower more of a dance?

Video could come 5 seconds sooner

Can Claire come from upstage door and follow light path to Godzilla?

why did video end??

Matthias center of circle for dressing

Bridge exchange coat for vest then bring hat.

2nd Act

Claire video only on space blanket until Godzilla is placed.

Claire this could all be 20 % faster.  too much long slow and meaningful

Tony –Move video from Space blanket when she turns to Don’t get video stuck on half white and black.

Move bike to center of Balck curtain.

Bring up light on Maria and Jörg with first light lift.

Bridge stay for head stand – then back away, don’t come to spot until I sing.

Tony- 2 bows then black out we stay.  2 bows then we leave.

12/28/10

Andrea Keiz shoots video.

André Therriault and Gabi Beier leave at intermission.

After show - Great Party

12/19/10

Closing night

Good show

12/20/10

Pack up and load out.

Crazy day transporting everything to ship to Miami.

Tony, Ben, Mira and me bust ass to get out of the theater in time.

Finished day in a cab with Mira, lugging major shipping boxes all over town in deep snow.

Finally got it all off though.

Off to America

Winter 2011

YBCA Gallery Lobby Installation January 2011

1/5/11 Production Meeting YBCA

Walk through with Gallery people to get logistical parameters for next week.
PR and Marketing Check-in
YB Gardens need proposal for outdoor installation

1/10/11 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

 First Meeting in Lobby ar YBCA- Trying to feel why we are here.  Feels far away all the conceiving and planning and organizing.  These slightly stubborn ‘mature’ artists that don’t share a vision. Sat around and did a freewrite – trust what got you here.

Free write Yerba Buena –

 Stairway access light is bright we are here at a different time of day and not so bright.  How do our strange little characters exist in this world and why?  What is our piece actually about, Transformations. Should we be transformingin front of people or not what are our questions?  What is a body? Which of the things that we do underline this question. I like lying around in the space at different times. Fake glasses and wigs and costumes in lying around and inhabiting the space. The remnants of what we have done and might do.  Inspiring people to ask“What has happened here?” or What might Happen here?”  I like riding the little bike with a globe on the handle bars and a trophy.  Koan riddles. We could hand out glasses to people as they arrive to see magically what they might see.  How do we ask people to look differently?  We can do the gazing score?  Should we ask some people to do the gazing score with us?  We could invite some of the people that might participate in the group installation to just come and put on fake glasses and watch whatever happens in the space.  I would like us to improvise in the next days.  Perhaps it makes sense to just meet later and to talk a bit and then have 4 hours where we don’t talk, but just do what we feel like and then talk after ward. or talk and then work an hour and then talk some more. and then work some more and let the process be public in our little corner here. I like hanging out and asking what is the performance and what is the rehearsal.

Jörg’s symbol/reference exercise

Jög proposes to go through the piece looking at each of the objects and actions he is doing and to research their referential or symbolic significance.  I think  it is an interesting exercise.  Reminds me of stuff I used to do in Contraband that no one would really care about.  What if this were an actual part of the installation?  A computer with all these references on it.

Jess Objects Actions – The search for Meaning or consequence.
Lying on the ground – Death, sleep, Breath, audience entrained?
Lying on Books – Books as physical objects, books as bodies, “The body of this Book” introduction to Peggy Phelan’s last book.My T-Shirt – 100% Stulen Konst (Swedisf for 100% stolen Art) joke about the making of ‘original’ work, nothing is original, everything is a stolen sign (even these words0 and we simply re-organize them in the moment.) The image on it is Caravaggio??? painting I like the tactile fleshiness of his work and it is an image of a body.(I don’t find it.
Sitting at the reading table. – St. Jerome Hieronymus often pictured with a skull and sometimes a lion as he supposedly pulled a thorn from the paw of one.

INSERT IMAGE HERE OF ST. JEROME

Three Arms –
Mannequin molding- Twilight zone episode  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_After_Hours
Skinny mannequins renew debate over unrealistic images http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Skinny+mannequins+renew+debate+over+unrealistic+images/3009209/story.html
Weight lifting/Shadow man
Cyclist

1/11/11 Rehearsal YBCA

Unpacked objects/costumes
I propose that everyone choose two or three images from material in the show that can sustain durationally as images. All begin in street clothes and glasses and change visibly in gallery at clothes rack. 

Images are:
Maria - Rollerskates, Jörg Duet, and Sleeping on Bed
Claire - object delivery and space man with lights and Godzilla, walking on me at end.
Bridge- Touch score as Bowery Red Man and then interacting with audience.
Jörg – Maria Duet – Trumpet playing Miles Davis.
Me – Gazing, reading books and chatting with people, riding bike, Getting walked on by Claire at end.
Went and bought Many fake glasses and Mattress for Maria
No Matthias music for these installations

1/12/11 –  Rehearsal

Ran through proposals, as gallery was open this was practically a performance in and of itself-  need comfortable space for Claire to hang out and rest in between appearances. 
Adjusted durations a bit to keep activity in space within a good  range of density. My ride should start later and last two hours. Claire needs longer break after object score, but if she waits too long we don’t have time together with bike/light
Figured out boom box placement for Matthias sound score.

1/13/11Installation Performance

Small but attentive audience.  YBCA estimates 100 people over the 3 hour span.
Last minute addition I made signed ‘Sweat Prints’ for viewers to take home with them. This idea needs more commitment, nice paper and some kind of sealable container to really work well. But it is pretty fun anyway and makes a nice audience interaction.

1/14/11 Installation Performance

Video Documentationday – Laura Lukitsch brings camera. Slightly disruptive in one way and yet it adds to sense of ‘event’ through the gaze of the camera.
Paced better.  Audience in Glasses is really working. at beginning.
Maria and Jörg are hilarious and tragic, Bridge odd and lovely, Claire quirky and fun with Godzilla/Boyfriend.
Staff at YBCA seem also to be having fun with it.

11/15/11 Installation Performance

Ran smooth,  no issues.  Everyone seems to have found their rhythms.
Strike and pack with Tony and Hope to transporton plane to Miami.

Miami Residency @ InkUB8 -   Tigertail, Florida Dance Association‘s Winterfest.

1/24/11Travel Day arrive Miami

Accommodations are interesting and funky.  An old inn near little Havana.   This is a car city, no really viable public transit except in the very central corridor along the beach.  Matthias arrives from Berlin.

1/25/11 Rehearsal

AM

 Load-in Hang and ciruit. Spacings set and spiked

Rental packages delivered or picke up:  Bike, Generator, Furniture (Fridge, tub etc.)

General spacing discussion with cast

My back goes out lifting something.

PM

Performers arrive -Spacing Discussion, Use roll-up doors to exterior patioor not?  How much ‘Installation’ energy to invoke. Lots of discussion a little acrimony. tabled

Evening

Inclusive Improv Master Class

1/26/11

AM

Tech with Tony, fine tune spacing,  sound setup with Matthias.

At lunch I go to a Massage Thearapistfor my tweaked backwho turns out to do a kind of psychic healing and does a kind of reading on me that really helps me think through some of the emotional issues coming up in our process.  I get a really strong encouragement tonot try to make everyone happy

PM

Performers arrive.

I decide to leave electric rolling doors open as audience enters and then close them for show.  Too much outside sound once show begins but nice border transgression for pre-show.

1/26/11 Evening

Class –Physical Processes

Played Performance/Gazing exercise.

Panel Discussion on Dance and Physical Diversity.

Slovenian Company visiting take part in all classes and panel.

1/27/11

AM

Lightprogramming notes moving lights are Ok but not perfect. I am impressed by Tony’s facility with them and we get lots of looks from 6 moving lights.  Some angles not perfect though.

Dress Rehearsal

Chunky but OK.  Issues with the tech booth as only real offstage space so traffic odd etc. 

Moods lightening.

1/28/11 Performance

Completely sold out –Good run- Standing ovations. Strong positive response.

Post show discussion very positive

Important shift in group morale here. People getting on board and seeing it work.  Is this perhaps a cultural thing?  Is the piece working better here than in Berlin because I’ve made it anticipating or mobilizing more American values?  Or has it just gotten better? or both?

1/29/11 Performance – Strike

Guy from bike shop came to see show and pick up rented Cervelo S2.

He was really sweet and loved the show and hung out forever.

Pack up tight to get everything to airport in the morning.

Yerba Buena Forum – World Premiere

2/1/11

AM

Tony and David Program and dry tech.

Load-in

Spike Set pieces.

Move into dressing rooms.

Tony and David get floor laid and lights hung and focused

PM

Performers Arrive

Space choreographies to re-expand after Miami

Re-check spacing, offstage areas and pathways

Maria skating paths, check floor for skate mark problems (none)

2/2/11

AM

(Shorter day for Dress Rehearsal)

Tony does Tech Notes

Matthias Sound set up

Guy wires me monitors for toilet. (awesome)

Q2Q with David for light cue fine tuning.

PM

Sound check with Matthias, Jörg, and Claire.

Arrange pre-sets with crew.

Techical Run thru of show.

Everything rolls fine just enough little fuck-ups to assuage my superstition.

2/3/11 - SF World Premiere

PM

Tech/Dress Rehearsal – light energy.

Evening

Full house, smooth run, appreciative audience.

It really feels like the show has arrived here.  I think everyone is quite happy.

Bar on stage at intermission is a winner

2/4/11

Sold-out show, They add overflow chairs, exciting.

Good run. 

Guillermo attends and takes part in post-show discussion.

Maria does post-show in blonde wig.

2/5/11

Sold-out.  Union problem with the extra chairs they put out night before. Adding seating requires a union call with a 4-hour minimum.  Chairs stay for tonight since they are already out though.

Good run.

2/6/11

Closing night, not quite as full, but great crowd.  very satisfying.

Strike, but leaving some stuff in storage for next installation process.

Everything else up to my house.

Yerba Buena Gardens Installation

Working with an all-star team of local SF Artists.  We took two days to share basic exercises from our DNFBprocess and created an installationin the Yerba Buena Gardens adjacent to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Community Collaboratorswere: Rotimi Agbabiaka. Alejandro Anastasi, Laura Arrington, Dante Baylor, Mary Anne Brooks, Cristina Carrasquillo, Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos, Rachael Dichter, Jesse Hewitt, Marilyn Jensen, Zari J. Matthews, Leroy            Moore, Megan            Schirle, Leon             Setti, Ernesto Sopprani, Sunny Taylor, Eugene Williams, Sandie Yi

2/8/11

Arrive

Warmup

Name Circle Checkin

Ishmael Identity Games

Contact

Presence Exercises

Gazing Performing Exercise

2/9/11

Warm up

Score Installation

Run through

Feedback

2/10/11

Arrive Warmup Prep

Perform Installation 12noon -2pm