Rainy-Day Mondays.
It started with a case of toothache and ended with drugs, the medicinal, pill sort.
As such, I did not go into work today. Instead, I transformed my walk-in closet into a reading nook, nand read through all of my old college papers. And I found this:
“What was your process for generating this audition?”
…My O-Works audition piece focuses on the dynamic between cultural relativism and ethnocentrism. This idea is illustrated through: Japanese and Western relations during WWII, specifically focusing on the “masculine western gaze”, the “feminine East” and the existing stereotypes revolving around a “dominate/submissive” romantic relationship. I’ve incorporated butoh and ballet choreography to parallel the dichotomy of “East and West,” with the through line of cultural assimilation and racist bias between generations. My piece consists of five moments which span three different “worlds”: the literal today, the recent past and the surreal mind. These are the worlds in which my Grandmother lives. The past and the surreal mind, for her, are malleable dimensions-she shapes her life into a specifically nuanced story because from this, is there relief from the literal today which has no conscience….I finished the textual element of my script, compiled an efficient dramaturgy packet, snagged my actors and started rehearsing the beginning of July. It’s been great.
“What do you hope to learn from this program?”
Everything I can.
And I thought to myself, when did my work stop responding to..to life? When did I become numb to it?… And then I found some pretty great John Wilson quotes that I wrote down during the course of Performance Art History and Theory…Since graduation, I’ve been waiting for that “Aha!” moment-that’s not to say that I haven’t been busy-but it means that this entire summer, I felt that I was waiting for SOMETHING, I could feel it coming-a premonition? An expectation? Something along those lines but possibly, or most definitely-more woo-woo. And it happened, on Tuesday-which coincided with my best friends birthday-I knew. I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life-in such a specific yet oscillatory way, I knew how I wanted to spend my short life-and it was such a feeling. Such a feeling.
The poster for Josh’s Senior Project. Keira Burton designed it, Josh drew the cartoons of us…another wonderful process finished! On to the next :)
Sasha and Syd’s show officially opened tonight. A success!
Here is the poster design for the short film that I directed for my Amy and Elena as their Senior Thesis. It’s a quirky, (almost) silent film. Come out and see :)
POSTER DESIGN FOR TWO AWESOME SOLO SHOWS!
Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom
Adapted from the letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by Sydney Tucker
Directed By Sasha Bailey
Lighting Design: Brandon Chapman
Scenic Design: Megan Tuschhnoff
Poster Design: Zoe Lammer
Dramaturgy: Allison Dunmore
Choreography: Carla Negrete-Martinez
Videographer: Sophia Watson
All of us have had a love that we couldn’t release. Maybe we were with that person for months, years, or possibly that person didn’t even knew we existed. Despite it all the love cut deep into our memories. We still blush with embarrassment at the thought of just how far we opened our hearts. Zelda Fitzgerald loved so fully and honestly that she was sneered at behind champagne cocktails, her art was discredited and eventually she was sent away. The present is a time of tightlipped correctness, a time that pretends to be without prejudice. But still, woman, man, or what have you, we fear great love and try to keep people at a distance for fear of catching the madness that is true love.
The HereAfter
By Sasha Bailey
Directed by Sara Porkalob
Lighting Design: Brandon Chapman
Scenic Design: Megan Tuschhnoff
Poster Design: Zoe Lammer
What happens when we die? This is the question that plagues many authors, poets and playwrights. There are people who think they know, don’t know, and people who don’t care.
Since the beginning of dinner parties religion has been an unacceptable table topic. The hemming and hawing the skirting around the topic, none of that will take place during this evening of theatre.
More photos from the Senior Cabaret :)
The opening number of Cornish College of the Arts Senior Cabaret: The Office
A mash-up of contemporary and musical songs. Enjoy :)
Courtesy of Thom Morgan!
Just a little bit of P&P-because I miss it :(
A little taste of The Office: A Cabaret-because it such a blast to do!
And..a little bit of holiday cheer where we all get socks :)
The Bennett sisters :) From left to right: Mary, Jane, Lizzie, Lydia and Kitty
