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The Failure Project: September 2009
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009. Following on from the last post. So after my last post, which Chris Goode very kindly replied to. Unbelievable) he pointed me towards a post on Carousel of Fantasies, a blog written by Matt Trueman, about the very same topic. I wish I had seen it when it first came out, which was right before I handed the Failure Project dissertation in (always nice to have someone on your side that you can quote in these things). Monday, 28 September 2009. SO…now that everything’s. I also wen...
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The Failure Project: July 2008
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Monday, 21 July 2008. The Failure Project: Brie Sandwiches. This is the scene that inspired me when setting myself the grapefruit-eating task. In the special features on the Twin Peaks DVD, the actors speak about their reluctance to go as far as David Lynch wanted, and their fear of looking stupid, and I think this comes across in the scene - in my opinion, they could have taken it a lot further. So how does a performer let go of this fear, and how can a director encourage this fearlessness? Sylvia Brown...
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The Failure Project: Hello again!
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Monday, 28 September 2009. I’m back, and after many months of what can accurately be described as “crap” I’m starting to be creative again – I’m even properly starting on a new project (although The Failure Project may rear it’s ugly head once or twice again in the future). SO…now that everything’s. 8220;coming up Milhouse”. On now at the Royal Court…I managed to catch a rehearsal of the piece and was completely blown away by it. This. It was there – for anyone that has seen it, seriously, why? Having ta...
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The Failure Project: October 2008
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Friday, 17 October 2008. The Failure Project - Rehearsals! The Failure Project - Open Space Performance. Monday, 13 October 2008. Another film from the process. Wha is it with me and food-related tasks? I guess it's just that the addition of food to a performative exercise is not only unusual to see, but it also adds so many interesting dimensions to a performance - issues of disgust, pain, abjection, violation, emotion, involuntary actions, fluids, sounds, smells. Saturday, 11 October 2008. My boyfriend...
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The Failure Project: February 2009
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009. Not so much of an illusion. So I noticed this recently on the Guardian website:. Http:/ www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2009/feb/10/painfully-good-theatre. If you haven’t yet, go and read the article and the comments below it, which make up a pretty interesting discussion on the nature of theatre and its relationship to the ‘real’. Now tentatively entering its second stage, is back on the scene and will be shown at the Space on March 14. And not just pretending. This to ...
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The Failure Project: March 2009
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009. While faffing around on the laptop I realised that there were a few more videos of the process which I haven't uploaded onto the blog.so here they are. They are ones I made to accompany the dissertation and focus on particular elements of my arguments. Thoughts on how the Scratch went, and future plans, are coming up in the next few days, but until then. time for another word cloud? Thursday, 12 March 2009. At the start of something new. Since this is my ‘baby’, as i...It needs ...
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The Failure Project
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Friday, 3 July 2009. An issue has come to the forefront of my thinking in terms of The Failure Project and possible new avenues to explore, and it’s one that had first came up last year, soon after first showing the piece at the Festival. I always feel that if you have to explain the artwork, you’re doing it wrong – otherwise, just write an essay. Each task had a complex and profound link to the history of the performer undergoing it. Even that, though, was lacking: the camera screen was just another sep...
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The Failure Project: May 2008
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Sunday, 25 May 2008. Failure forms the basis of many aspects of comedy (one can think of a million examples of comedy based on the failure of a person, or people, to correctly carry out a task, communicate with others, or interpret a situation correctly). This is particularly true in the physical comedy one finds in clowning. What struck me most. Us' meaning the audience) stressing the need for the performers to establish, and then maintain, a dialogue between themselves and the audience. For John, the i...
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The Failure Project: July 2009
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009. Celebrating my 50th post with a small blogging holiday. Pina Bausch died last week. I unfortunately never got to see her perform live, but as a practitioner focused on the body in performance she has of course been a constant presence in the background of everything I have done, never understood or known except through clips on You Tube and bits and pieces read in performance books. Here is the clip:. How did I miss the obvious links to FP the first time around? 2) I need to focus...
