Creative Process: Creative Explorations Brainstorm

After our July meeting we took our 4 top guiding questions below and brainstormed ideas of creative explorations in relation to each. The Scores and research posted after that date are related to these.

Top Guiding Questions:

1. how are we asking the audience to participate in desire? -can we ask the audience to participate in desire?
2. how does Maude Allen’s transnational trajectory between Canada, Europe and the US relate to the PNC process?
3. how does the past influence the present and vice versa
4. what can we do with pearls?

Ideas for Creative Explorations: 

A. how are we asking the audience to participate in desire? -can we ask the audience to participate in desire?

1. Audience could decorate the performer
2. Come up with a score to ask the audience as a prompt to decorate the performer
3. Come up with a score that includes 3 performers, 2 cameras, pearls, honey, and the audience
4. Feed the audience honey
5. Come up with a score that asks the performer to decorate the audience or the audience to decorate each other
6. Create an authentic movement with a physical playback or written echo of Sandra’s movement in their body
7. Create an improv score for 3 performers 1 camera and pearls and honey
8. Eye contact?
9. Write a Nindasthuti to Maud Allan (talk about how much you hate the "God"/person, trash talk the God throughout the whole thing), sarcasm. Hate as a form of attachment

B. how does Maud Allan’s transnational trajectory between Canada, Europe and the US relate to the PNC process?

1. Make a map of Maud Allan’s movements, make a map of PNC, and use the maps as movement scores.
2. Segregate the audience by Nationality and see how your performance changes with different audiences, or what the audience sees from different places.
3. Research Maud Allan reviews from different places.
4. Research Maud Allan’s touring places.
5. What is the difference between her personal life and her professional life (secretary as lover), and figure out how this might affect her geographic movements?  
6. Look at Maud Allan’s personal relationships and make a narrative
7. Make a duet between Maud Allan and her lover
8. Research some of the historical homophobic targeting by that British MP guy and reconstruct Salome based on that

C. how does the past influence the present and vice versa

1. Research historical homophobic targeting by the british MP guy and the current policy stuff
2. Exotifying gaze compare Maud Allan and Sandra’s experience as brown woman in Germany.
3. Critically reread or refigure the figure of Salome, Salzburg Opera Festival (  (200-600 euro!)(https://www.panoramatours.com/en/salzburg/events/salome-1326/)
4. What would queering Salome mean? What would it take 21st cent artists to queer the attraction to Salome?
5. Salome whitewashed, reclaiming the brownness.  Have salome talk/dance back (especially about representations of her). (Oscar Wilde as an author of Salome, all the white western male gaze fantasy, like the Cleopatra piece Cyn and Shy saw)
6. write a twitter war between Maud Allan and Noel Pemberton Billing

D. what can we do with pearls?

Put pearls on audience members

Ask the audience to write pearls of wisdom on paper mache pearls (https://www.stitchncraft.co.uk/cotton-pearls-and-papier-mache-c102x3282679)

Insinuate pearls as sexual toys

Brainstorm set design ideas that uses copious amounts of pearls

Create videos with pearls (oysters bursting)

Movement exploration with pearls

Create prompts for the audience to do with pearls (dip pearls in honey and lick)