Final Presentation Day 2 - 16 March 2022
Click here to watch the entire open session for the Moving Text presentation.
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Click here to watch the entire open session for the Moving Text presentation.
We embarked on a new poem After Him, originally written as part of a poem-cycle White Sails Over Blue Blue Sea. This time, we launched...
Moving away from Singaporean texts, we explored an American text next, but with a classical theme of Greek myth. This text is adapted...
We continued exploring the Descendants text by sharing our individual research on Cheng Ho as a personage. Because the text says very...
We embarked on a new text – a prose work this time – the opening speech from Kuo Pao Kun’s Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral. Jon pointed...
One metaphor in Maybe Not Me that led to a lot of discussion was the ‘body underwater’. Applying another strategy from theatre, we asked...
We discussed various other strategies of engaging text that have been useful in theatre and other disciplines, in particular Speech Act...
In this session, we continued to discuss the relationship between form and content, and how we can combine them into a complete audience...
We started the session by asking Aiden how he would feel about showing last session’s raw improvisation to an audience? What value does...
Dreaming forward, we outlined some qualities that Moving Text should have : Organic – each moment must evolve from the moment before...
To lay a foundation for the upcoming process, the team began by discussing how contemporary dance and spoken word differ – in performance...