Hello One and All!
This will be the official blog spot for Bryan Reynolds and Chris Marshall's workshop: Transversal Acting.
This workshop is currently taking place Monday and Thursday nights @ 9PM in The Barn at UC Irvine.
Everyone is invited.
Come tired - they'll explain later ;)
Leave your thoughts and reflections here!
13 comments:
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I always walk into the workshop scared. I kept thinking--Is this gonna work? Are people going to show up? And then I'm afraid of the day when I walk in, and Chris would say "sorry guys, this transversal thing is over." But then I'm also hoping and waiting for a moment to come when I'll be like --WOW, I finally understood and experience what transversality is all about. And that will be pretty darn amazing!
haha, i dont really know what to say...
ah yes, so when i try to describe the philosophy of the class to people and what we do, i can't really convey the ideas. i grasp the concept of transversality but its rather difficult to explain. lets just say, i get a lot of confused looks.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to make the workshop last night because I'm currently out of town, but I really enjoyed last week's contact improvisation with the back...it reminded me of Butoh dance a little, possibly because it required us to really "listen" and "think" with the body, since no eye contact was allowed...a very visceral/corporeal type of consciousness.
so, you are waiting for the experience to either materialize or end, and yet you keep coming. i like that spirit! a thought for you: if we (collective) define, we step outside of the moment and we crystallize, yes? maybe stop looking for the understanding, the experiential definition and just show up scared: that might yield the most results; it seems to have done ok so far. the "pretty darn amazing" might be each of those scared moments rather than the resolution?? hope to see you next week... :-)
that was quite profound
Can you send us the script for the next workshop or is it supposed to be a secret? I felt like I barely knew the lines when doing the performance last week. And that made me put too much focus on trying to say the correct lines and not enough focus on what the other character is doing. Thanks.
We'll discuss this.
I'd kinda like to know one thing that everyone had trouble focusing on or connecting with, to perhaps help us notice our limits and then find way to move past them. Any thoughts?
I know that I was in my head a whole heck of a lot, noticing when I moved awkwardly, mentally taking note of the thoughts and decisions I made, which made me feel like I wasn't connecting with my partner
enough. As the night went on, and the exercises got a little more
...inventive, shall we say, I found that increasing, and I know next time, I am going to try and let the "reflexive conscious" float away,and focus on connection, with other people in the room, open eyes or not.
I missed last night.
I was very sad.. but I cannot wait for next week :) it better be amazing.
Would a confusion between "lizards" and "wizards" in the desert be considered a slippage, or merely a misinterpretation?
;-D
I’ve noticed that when people do the exercises, particularly the “Seeing exercise” I’ve noticed that people get into a “performance like” mode, where it looks like they are “acting” especially, when the exercise beings to incorporate word usage. I couldn’t help but feel that getting into an acting mode defeats the purpose of the exercise. However, I was also thinking about if one were stay away from the “acting” mindset how would the exercise get anywhere? Maybe it would?
Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you will not have a leg to stand on.............................................................
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