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Password: Tigress
This is a rough structure that begins with a Flashback (and voiceover of Carlos saying"and she was just like a Tigres...(echo effect on Tigress). We then enter the demo cut with the Padam verse by verse. I was supposed to confide in the sakhi (friend) in the first verse, but I performed it in the second by mistake.
Also, the ending need lots of work. I was just improvising the ending drawing from gestures I had used throughout the piece but I need to set it more specifically. I will probably spin from demo to padam but other transition ideas are welcomed
Questions:
1) Is it effective to begin with the Flashback?
2) Should the gestures be more abstracted or are they working. I wanted to lead the audience in with a more traditional demo so it unfolds more or less as a surprise.
3) Where do you see the chorus happening? I envision it after I start the first verse of demo...i.e What? after 1st verse Really? after second vs. and NO in 3rd verse and then perhaps it builds/layers --goes to the rap we had done at end of residency...
1. I know I thought earlier that the flashback should be first, but now that I see it in context I'm not so sure, it's such an intense beginning. Perhaps it is still funnier to start with the Lec dem.
ReplyDelete2. I think the gestures work. Funny when they are describing non traditional aslpets.
3. chorus could start after first verse as you mention. Not sure how it develops. Maybe tomorrow when I'm more awake i"ll have ideas :-)
1) Right now I find the flashback slightly confusing...and the surprise of hearing Carlos' Mexican accent is slightly lost with this set-up for me. Perhaps if there is a break (other material) between this section and the rest of the piece? Perhaps the section is put into Mixed Bag, Round 3?
ReplyDelete2) I like the gestures, but right now the release movements only appear in the varnam section. I also wonder if there should be two kinds of vocabulary - one "real" and the other Carlos' vision of you.
3) Not sure I understand this question.
4) I like the rhythmic energy and dynamic at the end but don't totally follow the story. I'm also wondering exactly what you envision for the diss-embodied section. Just Sandra's torso with Shy doing Oriental doll? What would you be doing? Or do you do Shurpanaka in this section since it's the over-the-top vision of you as Tigress?
5) For the lec-dem sections, I kind of like the idea of one of us (Shy?) standing at a mic doing the announcements as you demonstrate.
1) About the flash back I like the sudden repetition of "tigress, tigress, tigress" after the dynamic moving. But in terms of narrative structure i got confused.
ReplyDelete2) I like them- but i do agree with Cyn about maybe rethinking the different vocabularies
3) need to talk to understand the question.
General- I love the dynamic, rhythmic energy. The energy is sometimes very similar to tonsil
I like Cyns idea about someone else doing announcements- also to distinguish from tonsil