tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71650429693958083802024-03-19T00:47:42.973-04:00THAT MORNING THINGPerformances will take place at the Kitchen, New York, November 19-21, 2011.
Performers: Kimberly Bartosik, Gelsey Bell, Fast Forward, John Hagan, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Samantha McHale, Paul Pinto, Dave Ruder, Megan Schubert, Aaron Siegel, Samita Sinha, Aliza Simons, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Imani Uzuri, Madeline Wilcox, and Kimberly Young.
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Lights: David MoodeyFast Forwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12147707866371856096noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165042969395808380.post-81233425329591610312011-11-25T11:29:00.001-05:002011-11-25T11:32:22.190-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back, left to right: David Moodey, Sime Viduka, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Megan Schubert, Gelsey Bell, Dave Ruder, John Hagan, Brian McCorkle, Aaron Siegel, Imani Uzuri, Kimberly Bartosik, Kimberly Young, Tom Hamilton, Betsy Ayer and Fast Forward.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting to begin....<br />
Dave Ruder, Brian McCorkle, John Hagan, Aaron Siegel, Paul Pinto</td></tr>
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The Company (John Hagan center)</td></tr>
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Dave Ruder, Brian McCorkle, John Hagan, Fast Forward (foreground), Aaron Siegel, Paul Pinto<br />
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Dave Ruder, Brian McCorkle</td></tr>
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Imani Uzuri</td></tr>
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The Company</td></tr>
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Foreground: Fast Forward, Aliza Simons<br />
Background: Aaron Siegel, Paul Pinto, Kim Young</td></tr>
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<br /></div>Fast Forwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12147707866371856096noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165042969395808380.post-66368290027365022032011-11-04T18:05:00.000-04:002011-11-04T18:05:25.766-04:00Rehearsal for Act II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We had an excellent rehearsal for Act II today. Act II includes Imani Uzuri, Blue Gene Tyranny and Kimberly Bartosik. Here are some happy portraits from after the fACT. What does it sound like? You'll just have to come to one of the performances . . . but you'll have to move fast .<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vocalist Imani Uzuri and synthesizer maestro Blue Gene Tyranny</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, it's vocalist Imani Uzuri again, this time with the composer.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mid performance, Tom Hamilton, Kimberly Bartosik and Robert Ashley</span></td></tr>
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<br /></div>Fast Forwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12147707866371856096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165042969395808380.post-68026764711380897712011-10-18T00:44:00.007-04:002011-10-18T01:15:10.078-04:00connexions, specs, & familiar gesturesI have only recently met Mr. Fast Forward. I have enjoyed being in his presence for these early <i>That Morning Thing</i> rehearsals. I think it's fair to say that our interpersonal relationship was taken to the next level at the previous rehearsal when I, along with the other "men" in the cast, was given the task of mimicking and sampling Fast's physical movements in Act III. This can be rather intimate, trying another person's motions on. In public no less!<div><br /></div><div>In the rehearsal, the lowest hanging fruit of Fast's movement vocabulary was, for me, his tendency to hold & look at his lines and his frequent adjusting of his eyeglasses - Fast is answering questions from the "women", so there's a certain limited range of motion within the realm of the expected. The paper didn't register much with me, but the glasses had a notable resonance. I've been trying to think about why. Here's why I'm writing tonight; a possibly meaningless-to-anyone-else reason that I feel is important:</div><div><br /></div><div>I used to watch a lot of His Prime Minister's Question Hour on C-Span, circa 2004-5. We got a few cable channels for free. It was a Sunday night ritual with my roommates. We'd delight when a timid MP from West Shropshire West would stumblingly offer a question on juvenile delinquency (there was a great British euphemism for it I'm blanking on), we'd revel in the slouching body language of the cabinet & shadow cabinet, but most of all we'd squeal with delight whenever Tony Blair emphatically took off his glasses at the peak of his responses. Regardless of your politics, you have to admit there's something theatrically wonderful in this oft-repeated gesture (there's great lead up starting at 2:00 in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpVycRpa2L8">this clip</a>), a way of making one's point that I could never pull off and most people would never try. And the way the thing's edited, you never see him put them back on, he was just always ready to establish a rhetorical climax and whip off those specs.</div><div><br /></div><div>Where's the connection? Mr. Blair hails from Durham (I've been trying to memorize all 48 ceremonial counties of England for a few years, I'm almost there). Fast Forward has an accent that to me is hard to place, but I hear both familiar English & Scottish cadences in it. I could be way off base, but it seems logical to me (and I've been thinking this for a few weeks now) that he must hail from Northern England, perhaps even Northeast, given this accent (I've known Northwesterners, they sound different). Frankly, it's none of my business, just idle thinking. Nonetheless, as soon as I watched him touch his glasses, even though I don't think he ever whipped them off, a connection was made between what he's doing in <i>That Morning Thing</i> and this treasured dramatic nugget from my catalog of gestures. He's not even going to wear the glasses in the show in November, but I'm really, really excited for this section now. A tenuous connection that it took me a week to figure out is how I want to say: I think this production is going to be aces.</div>Dave Ruderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306407125917943994noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165042969395808380.post-64235126584822820642011-10-11T21:35:00.000-04:002011-10-11T21:37:16.595-04:00Men and Women Thinking<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhey6Z-TgPEbTWO1DGTEcroivDXN27f0tMX7_lzA3Ex1Y4bnvRnclxKaOt2fYkAsdoR7bBxOHw10NKD9stGDZ98CPzBZWcgAe14bUzDZoiNv9MuroSO9KqVu4aDfrkme4IX81_eORHlDD0/s1600/thinking_final.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhey6Z-TgPEbTWO1DGTEcroivDXN27f0tMX7_lzA3Ex1Y4bnvRnclxKaOt2fYkAsdoR7bBxOHw10NKD9stGDZ98CPzBZWcgAe14bUzDZoiNv9MuroSO9KqVu4aDfrkme4IX81_eORHlDD0/s400/thinking_final.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662413549672283442" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Aaron Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10290333114315563727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165042969395808380.post-65035920564108667222011-10-07T13:07:00.006-04:002011-10-07T13:30:57.262-04:00Earlier Recording of "That Morning Thing"<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/G_ASH_ROB_01">http://www.archive.org/details/G_ASH_ROB_01</a><br /><br />I was surprised to find this archive (supposedly of a performance from 1969 at Mills) of a complete performance of "That Morning Thing" floating around out there.<br /><br />My initial skepticism was undone when I heard the now familiar sounds of frogs (<a href="http://rgable.typepad.com/aworks/2008/11/that-morning-thing-1967-robert-ashley-streaming-1969.html">someone out there thinks they're ducks</a>) and the Smithsonian Folkways narrator Charles M Bogert (<a href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2421">http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2421</a>). Which is our cue to begin the process of Act 1 detailed near the beginning of this blog.<br /><br />The "Other Minds" Archive which hosts this recording has this to say:<br />"A live recording of the complete experimental opera, “That Morning Thing” by Robert Ashley, possibly from the Dec. 8, 1969 performance at Mills College. Composed in 1967 this was Ashley’s second foray into the realm of avant-garde musical theater, and is a work for five principal voices, eight dancers, women's chorus and tape. The mainstream media’s reaction, as well as that of some in the audience, was notably mixed, however rather than being a commentary on the ultimate quality of the work it seems to be more an indication of the audience’s unfamiliarity with Ashley’s trademark mix of electronic and prerecorded sounds with the more traditional elements of opera. Certainly for anybody interested in avant-garde theater in general or Robert Ashley specifically, this historic recording of one of his earliest and perhaps lesser known works should be of immense interest and value."<br /><br />Interested in where they got the information about the "mainstream media's" reaction to the piece, I found <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/C_1969_12_11">this site from the same archive</a> which contains a review by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Shere">Charles Shere</a>, who defends the piece against "critical consternation."<br /><br />He ends his review, which is quite a positive one, with "'That Morning Thing' will find its time and its audience or it will prove its own fears well-founded, and none of us will know the final result of our rejection of the life that has been put in our hands."<br /><br />"That Morning Thing" has found its time and perhaps its audience as well, I am honored to be part of time, audience, and performance!Brian McCorklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16989216003923345542noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165042969395808380.post-90797923165497280412011-10-05T13:40:00.000-04:002011-10-05T13:40:01.874-04:00Rehearsal for the epilogue "She Was a Visitor" Oct 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once again – ‘The purpose of moving the women around is to
put two women in hand-to-hand contact so that the lights in their sunglasses
blink — and allow the audience to look at them’.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The counting code for the man counting and the woman being
directed is:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“one” (rest) means
move “ahead”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“one”
“two” (rest)
means “turn left” (in place)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“one”
“two” “three” (rest) means
“turn right” (in place)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“one”
“two” “three” “four” (rest) means
“turn around” (in place)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“one” “two”
“three” “four” “five” (NO REST) means hand-to-hand contact with </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 3.5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">another woman (the lights blink).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 3.5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The most common direction is “one” (rest), move ahead. The left/right/turn around
directions cause the woman to stop moving forward and to turn to face in a new
direction. Then, the forward direction begins again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The (rest) has the same duration in the measure as is the
spoken number. So, for instance, the “<u>one</u>” “<u>two</u>” (<u>rest</u>)
direction [meaning: turn left] is three equal beats.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When the corresponding women make hand-to-hand contact,
it is maintained for 10 to 15
seconds. Then, the counting instruction — “one” “two” “three” “four” (rest) — tells the woman to: </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">take a step back and to turn around and go away from hand
contact.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The man counting determines the duration of the hand-to-hand
contact.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The “one” “two” “three” “four”
(rest) instruction can be used at other times, simply to direct the woman to
another direction of movement.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">WOMEN – STYLE OF MOVEMENT<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1) two feet together</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2) one foot forward for one step. The step is just the
length of the foot.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3) other foot forward, to “two feet together” position</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4) repeat this, alternating which foot goes forward</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The woman’s speed is <u>TOTALLY INDEPENDENT </u>of the man’s
counting speed. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because of this move-technique the women all move more or
less at the same speed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ACT III<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">WOMEN “QUESTIONS, DIRECTOR “ANSWERS”<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When the “Man in the White Suit” (Director) appears on
stage, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the WOMEN ask him “Questions” into their microphones. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The questions are mainly geography-philosophy questions: </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">e.g., How do I
get to Grand Army Plaza? <br />
Where are the Cloisters? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Why
are they way up there? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Where is the Upper East Side? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fast Forward will compose “answers” to be spoken into his
microphone. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The answers can be unusual. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Question-and-answer combinations takes 30 seconds each
— maybe</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some Questions will be asked while the previous question is
being answered.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">end.</span></div>
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