musicals are the most bizarre thing on earth

i am in rehearsal right now for the hot mikado, already generating strange ideas about the nature of performance, and then i decide to continue with readings on fluxus and john cage and the like. i do not recommend this combination, in short, it is a mind fuck. the point is, i think that the article written by Nyman is really smart. i feel as though i am gathering a good cross section on a specific type of performance art and coming up with great performance ideas for my personal work as well. i like the way nyman compares cage's approach to performance with brecht's , stating that cage sees "performance through total unpredictable configuration" and that cage is not so "interested in the quality of individual things", while Brecht "isolates the single observed occurrences and projects". for me, this comparison was important in thinking about ways of filtering gestures or concepts in a performative way. so a few performance ideas that i had while reading this stuff was to perform a variation of kosugi's piece Anima 2, (which i may do for the last class next week) and exercise of slowing down sounds or gestures, repeating sounds or gestures halfway in various ways. some other projects that i have thought about this term i now have the inclination of labeling "performances" (these include tee shirt assimilation and photo collection), due to continuing reading about performance. i think that these reflect a more Schechnerian observation on performance, yet nonetheless, i think may be more appropriately seen as performances. so rehearsal is almost over, and this has been pretty self indulgent so i will end this post, but on this note: today in dance class two girls were lifting up a stool in order to make room for us to dance and about five of us stood around watching. after they finished, i really wanted to clap. are these moments, which happen all the time, meant to be recognized out loud, or are they better left alone? cage mentions that " theatre takes place all the time, whenever one is and art simple facilitates persuading one this is the case."

puttin' on the fritz

what's wrong with the blog? it erased a bunch of posts and made fonts annoyingly big. it is bad and i hate it.

Beckett - Not I

Petey Greene: Messiah

PAROLE.