Monday, November 20, 2006
girl fight.
Anne Bogart & SITI Company Update
for November 20, 2006
Conversations With Anne welcomes Viewpoints innovator Mary Overlie on Monday Nov 27th
Conversations with Anne is a series of events that provide a forum for leading artists to discuss and exchange ideas about their creative process with Anne Bogart. Past guests have included Peter Sellars, Paula Vogel, Julie Taymor, Bill T. Jones, Ben Cameron, Tina Landau, Oskar Eustis, Robert Woodruff and Molly Smith.
"Mary Overlie is a remarkable innovator. She single-handedly dreamt up The Six Viewpoints. In doing so, her work changed the landscape of the American theater. Emerging from the post-modern dance world, and inspired by the Judson Church movement, her ideas were immediately accessible to actors and actor training.” – Anne Bogart
WHEN: Monday, November 27, 2006 at 7 pm
this landed simultaneously in the best one's mailbox and my own.
these people have no idea what they're dealing with.
when the best one and i were just baby friends, we took a workshop together with mary overlie. it was one of the strangest episodes of my life. there was this one point when she gathered us for a short lecture, and we all sat down with our notebooks, and she:
proceeded to not talk. thirty seconds went by, and then a minute. two. longer. pretty soon it is like five minutes, and everyone is just sitting there, and i think i am the only one who is freaking the fuck out wondering if she is having some kind of stroke because the silence is so total, she is not saying anything and we are not saying anything and i can only think of this friend of mine who watched his mother in law choke almost to death on a grain of rice because they were in a public place and he didn't want to make a scene by giving her the heimlich. he said, i will never scruple again; it is worth looking like a fool to save someone's life. and so i wanted to intervene, but the social pressure to match the herd was too strong. i was convinced mary overlie was dying and i would be culpable.
and then, after like seven and a half years, she cleared her throat. "thank you," she said. "i'd like to thank you for giving me that time, for understanding and staying silent, patient."
mother of god.
performance workshops can be strange in many ways, but that one takes the cake. i'm not even telling you about the lozenge and weird spastic child thing she does with her arm.
the other thing was that she was WAY bitter about anne bogart. WAY. if i weren't under fourteen guns in terms of deadlines, i'd want a front row seat at this showdown.
for November 20, 2006
Conversations With Anne welcomes Viewpoints innovator Mary Overlie on Monday Nov 27th
Conversations with Anne is a series of events that provide a forum for leading artists to discuss and exchange ideas about their creative process with Anne Bogart. Past guests have included Peter Sellars, Paula Vogel, Julie Taymor, Bill T. Jones, Ben Cameron, Tina Landau, Oskar Eustis, Robert Woodruff and Molly Smith.
"Mary Overlie is a remarkable innovator. She single-handedly dreamt up The Six Viewpoints. In doing so, her work changed the landscape of the American theater. Emerging from the post-modern dance world, and inspired by the Judson Church movement, her ideas were immediately accessible to actors and actor training.” – Anne Bogart
WHEN: Monday, November 27, 2006 at 7 pm
this landed simultaneously in the best one's mailbox and my own.
these people have no idea what they're dealing with.
when the best one and i were just baby friends, we took a workshop together with mary overlie. it was one of the strangest episodes of my life. there was this one point when she gathered us for a short lecture, and we all sat down with our notebooks, and she:
proceeded to not talk. thirty seconds went by, and then a minute. two. longer. pretty soon it is like five minutes, and everyone is just sitting there, and i think i am the only one who is freaking the fuck out wondering if she is having some kind of stroke because the silence is so total, she is not saying anything and we are not saying anything and i can only think of this friend of mine who watched his mother in law choke almost to death on a grain of rice because they were in a public place and he didn't want to make a scene by giving her the heimlich. he said, i will never scruple again; it is worth looking like a fool to save someone's life. and so i wanted to intervene, but the social pressure to match the herd was too strong. i was convinced mary overlie was dying and i would be culpable.
and then, after like seven and a half years, she cleared her throat. "thank you," she said. "i'd like to thank you for giving me that time, for understanding and staying silent, patient."
mother of god.
performance workshops can be strange in many ways, but that one takes the cake. i'm not even telling you about the lozenge and weird spastic child thing she does with her arm.
the other thing was that she was WAY bitter about anne bogart. WAY. if i weren't under fourteen guns in terms of deadlines, i'd want a front row seat at this showdown.
