I See, But... (post tour rehearsal) from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.
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Questions for feedback:
1. How is the use of the cloth in the Uma section and in the shame section?
2. How is the trajectory of build of the piece? Are their places it needs to build more?
3. The overall tone of this rehearsal is a bit heavier then previous versions. Do you prefer one tone over the other?
3. Other feedback or ideas?
PLEASE GIVE FEEDBACK BY JUNE 5
Sorry for this late feedback Shy:
ReplyDelete1) I like the use of cloth, how it surprisingly transitions to Uma's costume. I'm not remembering, but I think you got caught up in the cloth during shame section? I like that it became a big jumble and confused mess, sort of like the confusion you are having in sorting out the relationship btwn Uma and courtesans
2) I think the trajectory and build is quite smooth. I especially like how your physicality takes over for the words at many points in the beginning and I enjoy when you are experiencing the world of the people you are referencing and then come back to speaking as yourself
3) I did notice the tone is much heavier than the previous version. I like that there is more range and we do feel the emotional turbulence, but I also miss the light feeling the other piece had. If there is a way to bring it back to that feeling before it ends, it could be a nice note to end on
4) I love the use of physicality and how your movement relates to the cloth and the words. I also like use of the breath but feel it gets a bit too breathy towards the middle/near end. Maybe there are other tones/sounds of vocalizing without using words but as an alternative to breath
1. I like the use of the cloth in the shame section where you are rolling around and it gets caught on your legs, as well as the sari reference with the pallu over your head for the Uma section. I personally don't like the use of the cloth in the Uma section after its initial use as a sari (or, as Anj mentions, the dramatic use of breath) - because I find it to be emotionally and aesthetically redundant with "The Thorn, the Leaf, and the Butterfly."
ReplyDelete2. I miss the tightness of your old version, how it moved fairly quickly from one thing to another without a great deal of preciousness.
3. I think I prefer a lighter tone, though of course it is nice to have other emotional colors thread through. In this version I also felt much less of the women's resistance and much more of their abuse.
4. On a related note to 1 and 3, I've always understood this solo to be about you, Shyamala, thinking and wondering about the issues of the courtesans and Uma - rather than fully embodying them. If you do fully embody them, then I would make sure that it serves a different function than Ranri and Thorn/Leaf/Butterfly does.