Today is supposed to be all about taking a break from work. However, since I played down in Santa Cruz with Rachel Fowler this weekend, I don’t think I really need a day off. This summer session has been much lighter than the first. Without the Winters Shakespeare Workshop in the evening and being able to teach similar choreography, my days have been manageable. I have not worked on my thesis or on Dada as much as I’d hoped, but I have made good progress. And as I waited for the Groundling seating to open up on Saturday night at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, I did complete a list of things to play with in rehearsal for my thesis.
I certainly won’t be able to perform them all, but I will be able to play with each and see what works best and where the exploration takes me.
Right now the list includes:
the humours
clowning
the timing of a joke → through movement
creating/performing a comedic song or tune for theory/rhetoric
elements of being human
doctors who prescribe laughter
dirty/raunchy jokes
child character on a trampoline
stand-up jokes
French & Saunders “All That Jazz,” Jerry Lewis typewriter, Lucille Ball eating chocolate/stomping grapes
Telling personal stories
Since I feel that I have not been productive I have decided to back away from a light fall quarter and make the rest of my masters year jam packed. Along with voice, movement and acting, I decided to add the grad design class and am wait listed for Contact Improv. I also have 2 Independent studies – one with Jade for Dada and the other with Lynette for my thesis.
So, as I sit here on the couch with a glass of wine, blogging, I get excited for the work that’s ahead. And I look at the dishes newly in the sink from making a corn and potato soup, as well as my clean laundry bags by the door.
For that I can take break.
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