Posts in ‘ Embodied Practices ’
Performance Notes PLAY/WAR by Urban Research Theater As performed at Where Eagles Dare Theater, March 12 & 13, 2010 In the beginning, darkness. The creaking of a door as it opens…to admit two performers. A low vocal tone resonates in the small room… First one, then a series of these tones gradually coalesce into a fragment of vocal melody…A proto-song emerges. ... [ READ MORE ]
“The Moreno story seems to depict the fault line between the privacy of practice and the public domain of art. Do others also read it this way? In a class on political theatre, I found myself defending Moreno’s attempt against the idea that only qualified professional therapists should ever attempt to work with people’s real ... [ READ MORE ]
Last week I began a practice for its own sake. I’ve rented a studio for two hours each tuesday evening to work. Not to work on a product or show or technique but to work on practice. To work on presence. To see what I need as a body, a voice, in order to be ... [ READ MORE ]
This site is getting between ten and thirty unique hits per day, but most people who visit are not leaving comments. I wonder why. People are reading my “starting points” post, but not responding to it. Are the questions too broad? Too theoretical? Does it sound academic? Or esoteric? Part of the purpose of this forum ... [ READ MORE ]
For a little over a year now I’ve been working as an assistant in the studio of a master metal sculptor named Robert Cole. Mr. Cole has been working as a sculptor since the early sixties, for a long time in plastics (a material which he describes as too caustic to continue with), then in ... [ READ MORE ]
The obvious questions that come to our mind in this context are like this: What is the journey? Where is the journey headed? Whose journey is it? Why is it a journey? We all are very conditioned and comfortable with getting answers – but not questions. Questions unsettle us, make us uncomfortable, and sometimes force us to rethink and question ... [ READ MORE ]
When we pursuit work in the studio and call it Practice, we almost never achieve Play. When we pursuit Play in the studio we rarely achieve anything practical. Play occurs most spontaneously outside of the structure of “knowing” and the pursuit of “Technique.” And yet, it is through Play that we explore, discover and perhaps even develop practical ... [ READ MORE ]
Hi, I’m new to this forum and quite interested in what’s being discussed. I just completed what in the UK is referred to as a ‘practice as research’ PhD, meaning that a percentage of the PhD is judged based on practical work, which is in some way integrated with the thinking/writing in the written thesis. ... [ READ MORE ]
(translated with assistance from Francesca Netto and Ben Spatz) NOTES FROM THE YARD OF NON-THEATER (Part 1) “In the beginning was the word.” So begins the Book, and with the Book begins the era of writing. For long centuries, the Book has been the Truth. Today the word – the books – are mainly lies, ways of ... [ READ MORE ]
This week I will participate in the “Performance as Research” working group at the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) conference in Puerto Rico. The paper I have been developing for this working group turns on the notion of TECHNIQUE, which I now realize is probably going to be central to my dissertation as well. ... [ READ MORE ]
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