Thursday, July 27, 2006
brief chronicle of time
we performed last night at a the second gallery space. this space was much bigger than the emerson and offered us opportunites that the smaller gallery didn't. for example this venue has a main gallery, a garden court yard and a small studio gallery. we used to the kitchen to make food and serve a variety of drinks.
when we go into these venues we start by looking at what scenes are well suited to the uniquness of the space. then we construst a running order, which is usually a putting together of the scenes as they move throught the areas of the space.
new to this production was to use the rock and roche scene at the beginning to move the audience through all of the space ending up in the studio gallery. we had been putting scenes in areas, but never had a scence had floating staging. a neat discovery, and an opportunity to explore the idea of orientating the spectators to the space we would be using for the next two hours.
scenes with particular interesting uses of space were the head scene that used a dug out hole in the cement floor of the studio revaled by removing an iron grate. from inside the hole stevn made strange noises and banged on the cover eventually sticking his head out of the hole with people looking down onto him. also was the staging of 13000 direction on a 50' long metal ramp. the ramp, located in the garden and the area below it, effectively evoked the shipping dock and the market that would have accompanied it in real life. a scene that was informed differently due to space was the tea party scene, which now made use of a table and chairs in the open air garden. a contrast to its previous stagings in small tight interior spaces, this outdoor setting had a more direct alice in wonderland reference.
as a whole it is important to be able to measure one's own sucecess. anytime these scenes reveal an important idea or image or location leaden in the scene one has to feel satisfled that we are doing something right.
for mine own part, i feel a sense of loss each time we are able to discover something so specail about the environments we encounter then face the reality that we must leave it and look for something new for the next perfomance. this kind of loss is inherently sad as it is tied to the reality of live performance. the moment exists for one brief period of time then it is lost to necessity to push foward.
but isn't that the same thing that makes it beautiful?
photos forthcoming...
when we go into these venues we start by looking at what scenes are well suited to the uniquness of the space. then we construst a running order, which is usually a putting together of the scenes as they move throught the areas of the space.
new to this production was to use the rock and roche scene at the beginning to move the audience through all of the space ending up in the studio gallery. we had been putting scenes in areas, but never had a scence had floating staging. a neat discovery, and an opportunity to explore the idea of orientating the spectators to the space we would be using for the next two hours.
scenes with particular interesting uses of space were the head scene that used a dug out hole in the cement floor of the studio revaled by removing an iron grate. from inside the hole stevn made strange noises and banged on the cover eventually sticking his head out of the hole with people looking down onto him. also was the staging of 13000 direction on a 50' long metal ramp. the ramp, located in the garden and the area below it, effectively evoked the shipping dock and the market that would have accompanied it in real life. a scene that was informed differently due to space was the tea party scene, which now made use of a table and chairs in the open air garden. a contrast to its previous stagings in small tight interior spaces, this outdoor setting had a more direct alice in wonderland reference.
as a whole it is important to be able to measure one's own sucecess. anytime these scenes reveal an important idea or image or location leaden in the scene one has to feel satisfled that we are doing something right.
for mine own part, i feel a sense of loss each time we are able to discover something so specail about the environments we encounter then face the reality that we must leave it and look for something new for the next perfomance. this kind of loss is inherently sad as it is tied to the reality of live performance. the moment exists for one brief period of time then it is lost to necessity to push foward.
but isn't that the same thing that makes it beautiful?
photos forthcoming...
# posted by DH @ 3:40 AM 
