- Buzz words: storytelling, plans, expected vs. reality, habit, responsibility, acceptable (socially), control, the everyday, waiting, normal, obligation, relationships
- Want to build a common vocabulary with performers.
- Looking to work with 2-3 actors/movers, comfortable with pulling inspiration from personal experience to create improvised characters and circumstances. I like to work with detail-oriented performers who experiment with both original language and movement.
- I am interested in exploring the “everyday life” – what is considered normal and expected and what happens when things don’t go to plan. This can be on either a small or large scale (i.e. as simple as missing a sock from the laundry and as complex as news of a divorce). I want to focus in on how everyday life factors in to personal relationship (family, friends, lovers).
- Schedule: I’m a very busy person and I know you all are as well. I’d like to meet 1-2 times a week during September and October(Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday afternoons are my best times, but I can be flexible), and up to 4 times a week, come November into early December.
Exercise
- Those auditioning will make 2 lines, facing one another.
- Look at the person across from you. Do you know them? Would you like to? Is it a face you’d remember in passing?
- Now close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths. Think about all the things you don’t know about the other person. Thousands of little things.
- Favorite color, biggest mistake, how long they keep their fingernails.
- Now open your eyes and approach your partner silently.
- You are going to tell a story together. Without any words, just your hands.
- Once the stories have been told, each person individually finds one statement that sums up their hand’s point of view. (i.e. “I could never really love someone like you”, “This is the last time I’ll be this weak”, "I know you borrowed my shirt and ruined it")
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