Saturday, May 16, 2009

Kurt Hartwig

Elizabeth and I went to see Kurt's one man play at Moct Bar in the 3rd ward yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a touching play on a past relationship dealing with issues of who we were, are and will be in the face of death.  Just add movement to the layers of relevance and I'm in.  We highly recommend it.  The show is on again at 8:30pm... he's leaving for Prague next Monday to perform it at the Prague Fringe Festival.
 
We had a meeting the other day about our 2010 season.  The show that precedes our show will be titled "uncovered."  This started me thinking about our show and made me think of how the whole world is a bed and that if someone pulls the sheet one way then someone else get uncovered.  This is something I've been thinking a lot in response to the present economic situation and while identity is a huge issue, the greed present in our communities is uncovering our jobs, our schools and our safety.  

On a more practical note - we need to decide whether we will have the show on the weekend of June 18-19 or June 25-26.  Right now I'm committed to a performance with Present Music on June 18th. (this happened in the past couple days...)  This would be a solo with music and interactive design from Chris Burns.  I should know soon if Kevin chose to put the performance on the 11th or the 18th.  

We also need to decide whether we are ok with two nights or we would like three nights or four nights...  Since we don't really know what we are about to do it's a bit hard to think about the performance format.  

Another practical issue is our rehearsal format - normally we have a rehearsal period per dance piece being built.  In this case Elizabeth is also building something for Summerdances 2010.  We were thinking of creating a rehearsal period for the KSE 2010 show that would start in Feb 2010 on (just guessing here...) Mondays and Wednesdays from 2-3:30pm with a Friday rehearsal from 1 to 3:30pm and then a rehearsal time for Elizabeth's piece of Tuesday and Thursdays from 1 to 3:30pm and a Friday time of 1 to 3:30pm.  We would use as much of the same dancers in both processes which would allow us many permutations...  For example Heather and Elizabeth could rehearse for 2 weeks everyday with everyone and then I could come in and rehearse MW while Seth would work TR and then we could all meet on Friday... anyway, let us know what you think of that format.  

Another issue is the title... As I was writing this I got to liking the book title Birth of Pleasure... maybe something along those lines for now?  Birth of...  

Anyway this is a lot to think about on a blog...


Birth of Pleasure

http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?id=1214&type=book&cn=98

I've not read the book myself but I thought I would share a link to a review...

What I've read in the past few months (also suggested by EAJ) is The Mind and the Brain by Schwartz...

http://www.curledup.com/mindbrai.htm

Friday, May 15, 2009

Another Nelken Clip, Since Seth Hasn't Seen It

This blog looks great, Luc!


Hello, everyone. I'm so excited to be working on this project with you. I thought I'd begin by posting something that's been very influential to me, Bausch's Nelken.

Another Try at a blog

In this blog... we can move it to our server and we can have multiple users...

Does this work?