I’m following up on my last post. I’ve decided to tease out the themes of this blog and go into deconstruct mode. I’m keeping this blog (after a bit of a face wash) to focus on teaching and learning, adventures in digital learning and productivity. I’ve shucked off theatre, acting and performance to a new
Continue reading ...Web 2.0 has arrived in the performance space. A current class of acting majors is working on a one-person show with me right now. They have devised, written, and are developing the first phase for public showing in a couple of weeks. The work is being collaborated on with me (Google Docs) and we meet
Continue reading ...It’s “O Week” (Orientation Week) at university. Today was the first day. The place is full of new faces, and some more familiar, with the return today of the second-year acting class about to tackle a production of Mad Forest Caryl Churchill‘s terrific play about the 1989 Romanian revolution. It also happens to be my
Continue reading ...I spent yesterday afternoon watching a run-through of a play for which I am voice coach. After the run I had dinner with one of the actors, and we talked less about the run-through, and more about the approach to prepping the body and mind for the act of artistic-athleticism, aka stage performance. Pacing across the
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