A few years back, I abandoned the notion of normal linear writing. I stopped trying to make sense, and began focusing on creating a multi-sensory perceptual experience. The internet is ideally suited to this kind of experimentation as you have quick and easy access to remixable reference points which you can use and reuse to [...]
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Special Monkey Times
November 17, 2009 – 4:27 pm
I don’t know a lot about or watch spectator sports all that much. But given the nature of my research - into traveling performance traditions - I can’t help but collide with the topic.
I didn’t really grow up with sports as a social bonding ritual in my family. So I never have really been [...]
Haptic Response In Performance
November 16, 2009 – 3:55 pm
With physical performance skills, I’ve been noticing that you simply can’t learn how to do a particular action or move unless you actually engage through the full-motion of that move. That is, you can’t go right up to the edge, the beginning of that action and stop it short. You’ll only be teaching your nervous [...]
Universe as Rube-Goldberg Device
November 16, 2009 – 3:54 pm
Maybe that’s all the universe is. Cosmos, the clockwork universe, things are what they are and they are only trying to simulate themselves - survival, reproduction, the Great-Chain-of-Being.
Connected closely, no doubt, to the Rota Fortuna and the Cosmic Machine, I’ve seen with eyes closed. It governs repeatable patterns, processes and functions, especially those which recur [...]
Constructing a guillotine for the stage
November 16, 2009 – 3:53 pm
During the first season of my unofficial apprenticeship in the theatre, the summerstock company I worked for performed a production of The Scarlet Pimpernel a not very good rock-ish musical re-telling of the older story of aristocratic espionage - essentially yet another excuse to dress up in costumes and get paid for it.
One of [...]
Quick-change acts as sleight-of-hand
November 16, 2009 – 3:51 pm
Quoted from Everett Quinton, as interviewed by dramaturg Naomi Greenberg-Slovin in Everyman Theatre’s program for The Mystery of Irma Vep:
Charles [Ludlam] wanted to do a quick-change act and Irma Vep is a quick-change act. Charles was a magician as well. He was into magic and into the Magicians’ Society and not into giving away how [...]
