Eight Feet and One Half Inch

Devised and directed in collaboration with Thomas Leabhart.

Texts by Gaston Bachelard, Marina Warner (Parkett 87), and William Carlos Williams,
used with permission of the publishers.

Additional texts by Octave Chanute, BC Kites Canada, Orville and Wilbur Wright,
and Young Tseng Wong.

First performed at Pomona College, May 2011. (See previous posts.)

Many thanks to Prof. Thomas Leabhart, faculty, staff, and students of Pomona College and the Department of Theatre and Dance for creative support, work space, time to make work, and performance and rehearsal space.

Semara Dahana

Balinese dance and Mime. Collaboration with Nyoman Wenten on an adaptation of
Semara Dahana – The Burning of the God of Love.

Performed with the Pomona College Gamelan Ensemble Giri Kusuma, May 2010.

Directed by Nyoman Wenten.
Performed by Nyoman Wenten and YT Wong. Original music composed by Tyler Yamin.

Video ©Pomona College Music Department, used with permission.

The discipline of attention

A post by Andy Horwitz at Culturebot on watching performance.
Inspiring for performance-making too.

There is the audience and there is the stage and there is that other place where our will to suspend disbelief meets the projected imagination of the artist and we collectively create and enter into an alternate reality. This alternate reality is where we imagine new ways of seeing the world. Hopefully these visions are rich and transporting, hopefully they offer us something to bring back to our everyday lives, some bit of wisdom, compassion or humor that adds to our mental/emotional toolbox. It makes us wider and deeper and somehow more than we were before.

Preview of “Eight Feet and One Half Inch”

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Sketching in

Short clips from current piece in progress.

Movement score roughly laid down. No phrasing yet. Lots of fine-tuning and detail work to do. Next, memorize and drop in the speaking text. Practice, practice, practice!