We had another participant join us yesterday, Jean Goto from New York, a member of the theatre company The Anthropologists. Having another join the group was revitalizing. We jumped back into working with the Buran script Bournijka the Boxer: American Mythology, Vol. 1. This led us into writing more personal mythologies, sharing them, and getting them up in their feet for a blizzardy devising session. Five narratives playing themselves out in tandem in the space. I believe today Ben Leifer in his session will find a means to relate this blizzardy effect of performance in Buran to his recent composition.
In the evening we joined Laurel Butler and the cast and creative team of The Great Negocio and did some clowning. Laurel and her creative team were so gracious to let us be a part of this workshop. It was a special moment for everyone to don the red nose and to play within Laurel's clown pedagogy. An exercise that closed out the workshop was The Awkward Moment - where two clowns started off dancing to music, when the music stopped the two clowns had to make contact with the spectator, looking straight at then, share a moment, and then investigate within that Awkward Moment.
That moment of confronting the spectator was so invigorating and a performative flair that we often encounter in Buran rehearsals and performances. Many commented that we had actually never done a lot of clown work before, but the physical minded approach was familiar and the sense of play and chaos were similar in certain respects to how we enter the rehearsal process for a Buran.
Sharing this week and finding the similarities that keep us bound as a community of artists is what has made this week so special.
I expect there to be many posts to come from the various individuals who have been in Albuquerque this week. So - stay tuned!
-Adam
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