In my current draft of the dance, lights repeatedly come up from blackout onto this pose (or variations of it) and different scenarios unfold. My favorite scenario: when released, the silver bowl clatters straight downward onto the stage and the ropes (unattached to the bowl) flutter limply to rest. Perhaps the bowl-dropper rolls backward, but everyone else holds the pose. In another scenario (which begins with the pose facing outwards) petals are catapulted into the audience.
Wow, I love the ass-- everything, really, but especially the ass-- of the guy in loafers. Costuming has to replicate the photo as much as possible, although I might put the fellow in the button-down shirt in pants.
I'm reminded of Frank O'Hara's chinos, even though on closer inspection it seems no one is really wearing chinos proper. . . & I felt the same way about that ass! the ass, and the shoulderblade of crouching boy.
ps you are a choreographer; I totally want to steal the flutter and petals.
Yes, let's put the buttoned-down fellow in dark chinos. In one scenario, he will dance Frank O'Hara-- potentially recite O'Hara. I now realize that he always was Frank O'Hara.
Miss X. Tooknap, you can steal, but I'd rather you collaborate. xo
Hooray! I will continue choreographing with the assumption that the boy in chinos will dance to this O'Hara reading. At another point, the ensemble will dance to excerpts from Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux-- these delightful little bird sounds played on piano.
dynamic tension
ReplyDeleteIn my current draft of the dance, lights repeatedly come up from blackout onto this pose (or variations of it) and different scenarios unfold. My favorite scenario: when released, the silver bowl clatters straight downward onto the stage and the ropes (unattached to the bowl) flutter limply to rest. Perhaps the bowl-dropper rolls backward, but everyone else holds the pose. In another scenario (which begins with the pose facing outwards) petals are catapulted into the audience.
ReplyDeleteWow, I love the ass-- everything, really, but especially the ass-- of the guy in loafers. Costuming has to replicate the photo as much as possible, although I might put the fellow in the button-down shirt in pants.
¡Another Who reference!
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of Frank O'Hara's chinos, even though on closer inspection it seems no one is really wearing chinos proper. . . & I felt the same way about that ass! the ass, and the shoulderblade of crouching boy.
ReplyDeleteps you are a choreographer; I totally want to steal the flutter and petals.
Yes, let's put the buttoned-down fellow in dark chinos. In one scenario, he will dance Frank O'Hara-- potentially recite O'Hara. I now realize that he always was Frank O'Hara.
ReplyDeleteMiss X. Tooknap, you can steal, but I'd rather you collaborate. xo
collaboration:
ReplyDeletehttp://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/dial/The-Dial-A-Poem-Poets_16_ohara.mp3
wait, did that work?
ReplyDeletehere it is with line breaks: just put it back together & paste in yr browser:
ReplyDeletehttp://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/
dial_a_poem_poets/dial/
The-Dial-A-Poem-Poets_16_ohara.mp3
Wait, so, is your reaction to collaborative potential mixed? At once an Ode to Joy and a To Hell with It???
ReplyDeleteDial-A-Poems blow me away, btw.
ReplyDeleteNo, no! I'm fully invested in collaborative potential! I just like those poooms! pure joy!
ReplyDeleteHooray! I will continue choreographing with the assumption that the boy in chinos will dance to this O'Hara reading. At another point, the ensemble will dance to excerpts from Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux-- these delightful little bird sounds played on piano.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the lighter Petites esquisses d'oiseaux would be better, now that I revisit the Messiaen.
ReplyDeletere: petites esquisses, it sounds like he's playing the BOWLS!!!! slingshot bowls, meditation bowls, Manut Bol, hari bol. bowl cut.
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