April 2008

Playing notes: Dress 2

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

Tonight was a night of fix-ups all round for the Cabaret kinder; there are always final tweaks as the creative team finesse the show: lights, sound, cues, costume. We spent 20 mins or so pre-show reworking the blocking for a couple of exits. There were also acting notes from last night’s run. There are also

Acting Notes, Cabaret, notes, rehearsals

Watching from the wings: Dress 1

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

Watching from the wings is one of those special perspectives only granted to the inner circle of a production. I’ve often thought audiences would be fascinated by what goes on ‘out there.’ You could sell tickets maybe! As an actor, I’ve been lurking a bit in the wings, soaking up the energy on stage and

Asides, Cabaret, dress rehearsal, ensemble

Entering the stage world

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

Today begins the final part of the journey as we enter technical and dress rehearsal time. We’ll work through two days of technical rehearsals where lighting, sound and media are integrated into the live action and become part of the story-telling, and of the mise-en-scene of the production. Tech rehearsals can be a trying time

Asides, Cabaret, Mise en scène, Stage management

Video on Flickr: a traveller’s moving postcards

10 April, 2008
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Blogging
Posted by Kate Foy

Image by pixiesticks23 via FlickrI got all excited this morning when I learned that Flickr have finally introduced video uploads for Pro users ($US24.95 a year). Yes, I know YouTube is free … but aesthetics as well as economics enter into the equation when you’re deciding where to host your creativity. Personally, I like the

Flickr, Globe, great tools, holiday, iLife08, London, Nokia N95, photography, theatre, travel, Video, Videos and Sound Files

Tiny, wee movies and moving postcards

10 April, 2008
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Technology and Creativity
Posted by Kate Foy

From today, the fabulous Flickr photo application allows pro users ($US24.95 a year) to upload up to 90 secs of individual videos to their site. Formerly users could submit still shots only. I’ve been shooting and collecting images in a ‘theatres’ set on my Flickr page for a few years now. This morning I added

Asides, Flickr, Globe Theatre, National Theatre, Shakespeare, South Bank, Videos

On musicals as social barometers and a publicity call

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

Image via Wikipedia I did a radio interview this morning, part of the groundswell of publicity for Cabaret as we count down to the season’s opening next week. It was quite a relaxed 10 minutes or so in the late morning and on the national broadcaster ABC, but pitched to a more local, regional audience.

Asides, Broadway theatre, Cabaret, Empire Theatre, Musical theatre, Queensland Theatre Company

Photo shoot, make-up and corsets!

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

photo credit: fluzwup A night off from rehearsals but valuable nonetheless; the cast were called for the program photo shoot. It was a chance for us to see one another for the first time in costume, and to realise how powerful a role the element of body adornment plays in visual story-telling. Body-masking is the

Acting Notes, Asides, body-masking, Cabaret, Costume, rehearsal

The State of e-learning in Early 08

8 April, 2008
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Collaborative Learning
Posted by Kate Foy

Image from WikipediaOne of my favourite sites is The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies which contains a link to Jane Hart’s blog. Jane keeps a finger on the pulse of e-learning and she’s doing some great longitudinal research into who is using what tools and where. I’ve been signed up via her blog this

blogs, Collaborative Learning, del.icio.us, e-learning, great tools, Jane Hart, research, survey, tools, Web 2.0

Auf wiedersehen Sitzprobe

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

And with 10 days to go it’s sounding and feeling good! Tonight’s sitzprobe finished up the play. So we’ve been through all of the songs, interludes and dance numbers with the orchestra. It was not as daunting as I had expected; thrilling, yes! One or two intervals … picking your note from a great concatenation

Cabaret, sitzprobe

Moving Postcards

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

photo credit: Leo Reynolds

I’m on holiday, so I’ve been playing with Animoto again today. I produced a short animated postcard on life around my place, here on a ridge in southern Queensland. It’s called Yarrawonga, which in the language of the indigenous people means ‘place of trees.’ I took the shots from the Project 366 set I’ve created on Flickr.

Animoto, Art and Creativity, Coolpix L16, Flickr, great tools, holiday, imagination, iPhone, Nikon, Nikon D40, photography, Project 366, Videos and Sound Files, YouTube

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Archive

Playing notes: Dress 2

Watching from the wings: Dress 1

Entering the stage world

Video on Flickr: a traveller’s moving postcards

Tiny, wee movies and moving postcards

On musicals as social barometers and a publicity call

Photo shoot, make-up and corsets!

The State of e-learning in Early 08

Auf wiedersehen Sitzprobe

Moving Postcards