So the dust settles on a new performance. I still have 2 bags of table, desk and bedside lamps in my living room and I only picked up the shoes I left at the venue a couple of days ago.
We’re making to do lists and having planning meetings for the next project we’re delivering.
Feels very much like the post-performance week.
How did the show go?
Well, it sold out days in advance.
Hooray!
Planning and execution smooth and pain free.
Despite the potential havoc posed by a piano, failing light bulbs, and all the other little things that come up in the course of things, the show went smoothly.
Transitions, cues, moves and interruptions - just so.
Oddly enough, as smooth as it felt (and appeared?) it didn’t stop changing and growing until the point of performance. Endings, ways of holding hands, smiling, and shapes, orders all were subject to change until the audience were in.
Two solid days of rehearsal on the weekend prior to the show, we had drawn a solid line under the development of material. Hmm… the best laid plans of mice and men eh?
I think its ok though. It made the piece feel more alive when in its midst.
Site responsive work of the kind that we have made here lends itself to the ephemeral, knowing it is a one-off, a fluke in time, destiny…
In this space a gasp, a laugh, childlike characters in masks or something more sinister scatter and explode like fireworks flashing inconsistently, now near now far.
It won't be quite like that again.
It’ll splinter and reform, maybe to be something very different. For now we have to leave it packed up in bags and car-boots, quietly awaiting a revisit.
We’re making to do lists and having planning meetings for the next project we’re delivering.
Feels very much like the post-performance week.
How did the show go?
Well, it sold out days in advance.
Hooray!
Planning and execution smooth and pain free.
Despite the potential havoc posed by a piano, failing light bulbs, and all the other little things that come up in the course of things, the show went smoothly.
Transitions, cues, moves and interruptions - just so.
Oddly enough, as smooth as it felt (and appeared?) it didn’t stop changing and growing until the point of performance. Endings, ways of holding hands, smiling, and shapes, orders all were subject to change until the audience were in.
Two solid days of rehearsal on the weekend prior to the show, we had drawn a solid line under the development of material. Hmm… the best laid plans of mice and men eh?
I think its ok though. It made the piece feel more alive when in its midst.
Site responsive work of the kind that we have made here lends itself to the ephemeral, knowing it is a one-off, a fluke in time, destiny…
In this space a gasp, a laugh, childlike characters in masks or something more sinister scatter and explode like fireworks flashing inconsistently, now near now far.
It won't be quite like that again.
It’ll splinter and reform, maybe to be something very different. For now we have to leave it packed up in bags and car-boots, quietly awaiting a revisit.
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