{"id":816,"date":"2020-10-23T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T11:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=theatre&p=816"},"modified":"2020-10-21T16:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:56:51","slug":"performance-score-built-with-undated-performance-notes","status":"publish","type":"theatre","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/performance-score-built-with-undated-performance-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"performance score built with undated performance notes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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the time taken to memorize<\/p>\n

the distance between yourself and the thing<\/p>\n

change is only legible in relation:<\/p>\n

use another genre<\/p>\n

invite another idea into yours because of what it does<\/p>\n

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What happens when we imagine the edifice, those galleries, walkways, lobbies, and that state-of-the-art theater, no longer in its current use?\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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a set of influences (past, present)<\/p>\n

a world within it that normalizes (and makes impressive) certain tropes or gimmicks<\/p>\n

the subtext of \u201cblackness as worse than the worst thing imaginable\u201d in this sick fantasy<\/p>\n

making the hatred clear but doing nothing about its putridness amongst the rubble<\/p>\n

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When going about business-as-usual loses its cohesion, but the building still stands?<\/i><\/p>\n

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looking for the scales to tip, looking for ways to draw the boundary<\/p>\n

only write when you want to share a revelation, a moment of surprise, with other people<\/p>\n

start with concept, then medium<\/p>\n

rehearsal is all talk, get to the movement<\/p>\n

decide what kinds of gaps need filling<\/p>\n

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When moss grows over it all and we have to choose to climb through the structure together, make it safe for children again?<\/i><\/p>\n

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welcome the audiences to share and move through the stage space<\/p>\n

create the \u201cillusion\u201d of a performance in a dark theater<\/p>\n

move out of it, ignore its usual uses<\/p>\n

(categories are\/as lineage)<\/p>\n

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Will it still be a useful place? (Do the speakers and lights still work? Can we crack a hole in the ceiling to let in more light?)\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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sharing rhythm creates a political question about who determines rhythm and when<\/p>\n

trio in unison, with the possibility of becoming either backup dancers or soloists<\/p>\n

open-ended and absurdist and nonsensical<\/p>\n

shame as part of gaze<\/p>\n

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Will we let each performance make its mark \u2014 hack out part of a staircase here, paint that wall turquoise, bring our own furniture, put in shag carpet (or finally take it out)?<\/i><\/p>\n

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living death (we\u2019ve gotten used to dying), living with it<\/p>\n

care and the carceral<\/p>\n

a solo aligned with therapy<\/p>\n

dancer not as victim but as person<\/p>\n

entering the stage after silence<\/p>\n

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Who will show up to use it after the signage and logos have fallen off? What will they believe about what being together to make or watch a performance requires?\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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ask them to reinvent some piece of the museum\u2019s conditions<\/p>\n

what has this artifact been conditioned to narrate?<\/p>\n

breathing archive into the present<\/p>\n

given enough time, sweat through to the past<\/p>\n

ancestor work is trickster work<\/p>\n

disorientation practices, habits and behaviors<\/p>\n

pressure and traction, consonants and vowels<\/p>\n

love notes<\/p>\n

levitating, like baptism<\/p>\n

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who do we allow to think our problems out loud?<\/p>\n

(we can\u2019t fill in the imaginations of people for them)<\/p>\n

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Are these unreasonable questions?<\/i><\/p>\n

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how to put your pulse back up your sleeve<\/p>\n

the difficulty that propels us to perform<\/p>\n

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What tenderness do their answers inspire toward the work to be done in the present, under \u2014 or because of \u2014 the circumstances?\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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perhaps we are past help<\/p>\n

but where, exactly?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Note: The elements of this piece in italics were inspired by a conversation with artist C. Davida Ingram.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"sharing rhythm creates a political question about who determines rhythm and when\r\ntrio in unison, with the possibility of becoming either backup dancers or soloists\r\nopen-ended and absurdist and nonsensical\r\nshame as part of gaze","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/theatres\/816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/theatres"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/theatre"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}