1st+Rehearsal

Improv: (notes) RULES: 1.) The piece is 1 hour long; no more, no less. 2.) Chorus speak for all parts and do not move. 3.) Actors improv with either abstract movement or conventional movement. 4.) Anthony (music) leads; actors follow his sonic direction. 5.) Once we start we do not stop.

The Performance: Jessie: In the ending I was able to reflect on the process and how I felt about what was going on (was it slow/fast/positive/negative?)

Beginning moment: - Lindsay: heels are tough. - Katie: Couple of character traits that appeared: > Gray- hands in pockets. > Trevor- spiraling. > G & T- lot of comedy - Anthony: > When T & G enter the sound has a sort of "march" to it (emulates the "soldier" nature of the two men) - Katie: Lot of traveling btw the characters. - Jeremy: There was a moment when Jessie had the fan in btw her knees (interesting moment) - Katie: The beginning sets the tone of the piece. - Anthony: Worried about audience coming in, hearing Mariah Carrie, and commenting on the show - Katie: it's not recognizable enough. It's NOT satisfying, which is GOOD. - Katie: "inside voices" ?? - Katie: interesting set up of the three women that resembled a sort of family. Keep it, work with it. It was sort of "sistery." - Jessie: I've been very interested in exploring what I'm saying and what I'm NOT saying but Lily is saying for me. - Katie: we have a lot of potential for Annie to mirror the movements that you [Jessie] are doing. - Peter: The shapes changed so much--> The women began very structured and stiff while the men were very flowy. - Katie: Jessie was doing a very deconstructed/abstracted version of the "pop-lock-and-drop"/"bend-and-snap" motion. - Katie: Jessie was getting on the ground while traveling somewhere. This horizontal feel related to the act of traveling is interesting. - Katie: There was a narrative that T&G added in about needing to get somewhere. There was a lot of playing and fighting that was very iconic "boy" stuff. - Peter: The levels shared btw T&G was an interesting addition to the act of traveling. - Jeremy: G trying to elevate T was interesting. - Katie: Jessie spent some time dragging body parts around. She would drop a part of her body and PERHAPS Annie could put her back together. - Katie: Jessie's shoe/fan shrine. - During the dynamic dance segment: > Jessie: The memories became more corrosive/painful (there was more chaos) > Trevor: I was trying to get to her, draw her in. > Stephen: First time Trevor and Jessie touch. > Anthony: There's a man who has a few outcries. > Katie: there was a sense that Jessie was hallucinating at this point - Katie: There was NOT a lot of stillness in today's work (which is to be expected), but this is something that we will work towards later on. - Katie: With such poetic language, finding very literal moments is key. - Katie: I had a sense of "regularness" when Gray brought the x-mas tree out. - Katie: the music cut-outs were nice. - Katie: the shadow play was beautiful. Is there a way that we could incorporate?
 * Katie: I wonder if we can have the actors emulate those types of outcries in their dialogue.

Last 20 mins. - Lily: It was interesting to see Jessie and Trevor have this long span of time together to find different levels of being "together" (post-marriage) - Jessie: Where do we want the play to end? > Katie: a swift ending is valuable. We want to have a final build to a climactic moment that is immediately ended upon. - Katie: towards the end when the Chorus read one line every few minutes it was as though their lines became titles for scenes we then watched take place on stage. - Lily: There were moments where our (the chorus) inflections gave attitude to the lines. - Anthony: We might explore recording the chorus and doubling/manipulating their lines/voices. - Katie: This week I would like to work on having Jessie speak and the chorus members imitate the way Jessie is speaking or even harmonize. - Katie: tonight the actors were emoting while the chorus was apathetic or neutral, I wonder if we might invert that one rehearsal.

Hey guys, here are some dance/lighting inspirations that spoke to me after our first rehearsal. Potentially completely inappropriate, but things that interest me and came to me while rolling around on the ground yesterday.

-Jer

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