April 2008

Another 31-Day Challenge!

30 April, 2008
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Blogging, Collaborative Learning
Posted by Kate Foy

Image: Thanks Stephen Downes Last August, and along with a smallish but hardy group of bloggers, I took the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge, led by the energetic and insightful Michele Martin of the Bamboo Project. As I’ve written elsewhere, this was a seminal event in my development as a blogger. (Use the

bb31days, Blogging, CoComments, Collaborative Learning, Comment08, comment08, e-learning, Firefox, Michele Martin, Sue Waters

Video and Blogging: the chatter increases

25 April, 2008
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Blogging, Technology and Creativity
Posted by Kate Foy

It’s been a while between drinks here on Spinning … . I’ve been engaged in a blogging and life-activity sense elsewhere. Not that I haven’t been busy in the world of e-learning, but it’s been the Clayton’s blogging (blogging you do when not blogging) i.e., tweeting, instant messaging and so on which has been occupying me. The whole Twitter universe seems to have expanded incredibly in the past week; I am being followed by hordes of people suddenly (hmm … another spammy manifestation which makes me feel as though I am being ‘collected’ randomly). Quite a few of my colleagues are suddenly ‘getting’ the point of Twitter. Me, still not sure, though good for a quick notification, help me out here, late night roundups of activity sort of thing.

Blogging, Facebook, Gen-Y, GenY, Seesmic, Twitter, Video, Videos and Sound Files, Wordpress

Happy 445th Will

23 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting
Posted by Kate Foy

The Groundling couldn’t let today go by without wishing William Shakespeare a happy 444th 445th. There are celebrations this weekend in Stratford-on-Avon and at the Folger Library in Washington DC and elsewhere, when there will undoubtedly be a rush of tourists eager to engage in further bardolatry. In my own modest way I intend raising

Actors and Acting, Asides, Folger Library, Globe, plays, Shakespeare, sonnets, Stratford-on-Avon

Auf wiedersehen Cabaret …

20 April, 2008
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Blogging, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Theatre is a cruel mistress sometimes, and never more so than when she breaks up a tight-knit ensemble at the final curtain. Many (like me) deal with this psychic termination, the ending of a beautiful relationship by treating fond farewells as lightly as possible … ‘No goodbyes … see you around.’ It’s easier that way.

Actors and Acting, Asides, audiences, Cabaret, theatre, Uncategorized

The Voice Warmup

19 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Voice and Text
Posted by Kate Foy

This is the most popular post on the blog. I continue to add to it with hotlinks and further comment on one of the more important skills for the actor. Scribbles to Myself (April 2008) So the voice is on my mind right now, not only because of my own recent scare in the run

Acting Notes, Asides, training, voice warmup, voice workout

Second night blues? Nope.

19 April, 2008
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Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Tonight clicked. There’s an old theatre furphy about second night being less good than opening night … or at least they can leave the actor feeling a bit ‘off’ and thus the performance is less good. I’m here to tell you that our second night was better than the first. The acting ensemble are firing,

Asides, audiences, Cabaret

Opening Night

18 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Is there anything more glamorous in theatre jargon that the phrase ‘opening night.’ Heck Broadway show tunes (Another Opening Another Show: Kiss Me Kate) and even whole shows (42nd Street; A Chorus Line; maybe even The Producers) have been written about this particularly thrilling time in the life of a stage actor. Tonight was ours.

A Chorus Line, Asides, Cabaret

Reader Appreciation Day: it’s the blogger not the blog

17 April, 2008
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Blogging
Posted by Kate Foy

It’s (late) on blog reader appreciation day, and I wanted to say thanks to everyone out there for your part in making my adventures in e-learning such a rewarding experience. The ‘Dear Reader’ was often acknowledged in those great 19th century novels; the Misses Bronte and others knew how powerful an incentive the readerly eyes

Apple, Blogging, Imagination, Art and Creativity, Learning and Teaching, Productivity, Recreation and Social Networking, Research and Professional Development, thanks

Just tell the story: Dress 3

17 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

And we did … with passion, care and joy. It works. In less than 24 hours, we’ll be in front of the final, missing ingredient … the audience. Bring them on!

Asides, Cabaret

More on that ‘moment’ we’re supposed to be in …

16 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting
Posted by Kate Foy

I’ve written before about one of those phrases tossed round by acting folk: being in the moment. I recall the brilliant Dawn French using it in that sweet comedy series The Vicar of Dibley. ‘Geraldine’ was directing the parish’s nativity play. She’d dropped her vicarly garb, and was dressed in requisite directorial kit. All was

Acting Notes, Actors and Acting, Asides, Cabaret, characterisation, creative process, interior monologue, rehearsal, subtext

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Archive

Another 31-Day Challenge!

Video and Blogging: the chatter increases

Happy 445th Will

Auf wiedersehen Cabaret …

The Voice Warmup

Second night blues? Nope.

Opening Night

Just tell the story: Dress 3

More on that ‘moment’ we’re supposed to be in …