the best performers can do 2 tricks over the course of five minute and make you want to watch every single moment.
oh gracious yes. and how to do that is precisely the thing i most want to learn right now, and the point of taking johnny's class, for me, and the laban movement class before that, and...
and i think there are different ways of doing it. and maybe one is creating a story, so that the audience becomes invested in finding out what happens next in the narrative, regardless of what stunts it involves. and maybe another is telling a more abstract story in a language of movement, so that the audience wants to see what it leads to even if they couldn't describe it in words.
i guess i'm learning about a lot of different kinds of content a performance can have. :)
improv games are fun! another thing i am still completely terrible at is thinking of another trick to do, when i am in the air. i'm trying to come up with ways of working on that. ("just try it" sounds good, but leads to a lot of me hanging in the air feeling dumb with no idea what to do next until my arms give out and i sheepishly climb down...)
"leads to a lot of me hanging in the air feeling dumb with no idea what to do next until my arms give out and i sheepishly climb down...)"
aww.. yeah.
it helps to work with people, and not solo. people who can shout out suggestions, or ideas. people who have NOTHING TO DO with fabric, too.. who can say things like "what about a flippy-thingy?" or "i wish you would do something more stretched-out"
i say this... because i'm in the marekt for a fabric-buddy out this way, too! it's tough to find someone who has a similar schedule :)
good luck, and.. HAVE FUN! i love your zombie-fabric-act, still.. and the fact that you think of zombies on fabric, and slapstick, and pirates. i think that's really, well, FUN. run with it!
i think i'm resisting the idea mostly because i feel guilty for not already doing it! because i totally work out with a room full of other people, all the time. but, um, that isn't a good enough reason not to adopt a good idea, i realize. ;)
we did, in johnny's last class, trade our props with people who knew nothing about them to see what they decided to do with them. this was in fact completely awesome.
and, thanks! i was sad my schedule didn't work out to get out to see your recent show, alas. (i had both girls that day. i put serious thought into whether i could do it and survive.) but it sounded awesome. next time...
i will have fun with the slapstick, if nothing else. :)
oh gracious yes. and how to do that is precisely the thing i most want to learn right now, and the point of taking johnny's class, for me, and the laban movement class before that, and...
and i think there are different ways of doing it. and maybe one is creating a story, so that the audience becomes invested in finding out what happens next in the narrative, regardless of what stunts it involves. and maybe another is telling a more abstract story in a language of movement, so that the audience wants to see what it leads to even if they couldn't describe it in words.
i guess i'm learning about a lot of different kinds of content a performance can have. :)
improv games are fun! another thing i am still completely terrible at is thinking of another trick to do, when i am in the air. i'm trying to come up with ways of working on that. ("just try it" sounds good, but leads to a lot of me hanging in the air feeling dumb with no idea what to do next until my arms give out and i sheepishly climb down...)
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aww.. yeah.
it helps to work with people, and not solo. people who can shout out suggestions, or ideas. people who have NOTHING TO DO with fabric, too.. who can say things like "what about a flippy-thingy?" or "i wish you would do something more stretched-out"
i say this... because i'm in the marekt for a fabric-buddy out this way, too! it's tough to find someone who has a similar schedule :)
good luck, and.. HAVE FUN! i love your zombie-fabric-act, still.. and the fact that you think of zombies on fabric, and slapstick, and pirates. i think that's really, well, FUN. run with it!
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we did, in johnny's last class, trade our props with people who knew nothing about them to see what they decided to do with them. this was in fact completely awesome.
and, thanks! i was sad my schedule didn't work out to get out to see your recent show, alas. (i had both girls that day. i put serious thought into whether i could do it and survive.) but it sounded awesome. next time...
i will have fun with the slapstick, if nothing else. :)
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