about “becoming a rose: a new bloom”
Becoming a Rose was without a doubt an intimate and honest exposé of my personal and creative worlds. Every day since this virtual theater piece was streamed live a little over two years ago, I keep going back creatively or emotionally to a scene from the play. Revisiting this crucial moment in my personal and creative journey seems not only inevitable but also necessary.
Becoming a Rose was without a doubt an intimate and honest exposé of my personal and creative worlds. Every day since this virtual theater piece was streamed live a little over two years ago, I keep going back creatively or emotionally to a scene from the play. Revisiting this crucial moment in my personal and creative journey seems not only inevitable but also necessary.
NOW! ON THE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT BOARD
On Making My Unknown Known
ON MAKING MY UNKNOWN KNOW
“There is certain freedom in being exposed. The question is ... do you run back for cover or move on uncovered into the unknown?” - Guido Luciani
“There is certain freedom in being exposed. The question is ... do you run back for cover or move on uncovered into the unknown?” - Guido Luciani
about using my own bare video to promote reboot
I’ve been working on my own Bare video to promote the reboot. Although this will be a “video” - yes, a product - it’s a necessary evil since not only, I doubt anyone will watch a series of recordings from the process but also, the process is different for because I’m doing this on my own, I have the training and I have being exploring this idea since before the original project.
I’ve been working on my own Bare video to promote the reboot. Although this will be a “video” - yes, a product - it’s a necessary evil since not only, I doubt anyone will watch a series of recordings from the process but also, the process is different for because I’m doing this on my own, I have the training and I have being exploring this idea since before the original project.
BARE CHARACTER STUDIES: VIRTUAL REBOOT
A virtual reboot of The Bare Character Studies videos. Actors experimenting with the connection between their instinctual impulses and their rational approach to acting
A virtual reboot of The Bare Character Studies videos. Actors experimenting with the connection between their instinctual impulses and their rational approach to acting.
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL PROJECT
A while back in NYC, I started a project I called The Bare Character Studies videos. After several sessions of training on the Sensory-Somatic approach to acting and an introduction to The Bare Character concept, a group of actors experimented with the connection between their instinctual impulses and their rational approach to acting.
NOTES FROM THE ORIGINAL PROJECT
ABOUT THE MONOLOGUES - The project was originally named THE MANTRA MONOLOGUES VIDEOS. The idea was to use the monologues as a “mantra” … something to say - without a necessary connection to the feeling or motivation being explored - that would not engage the brain for memorization, etc.
For the most part, the actors participating in the original project chose monologues that not only required memorization but that also were “pre-attached“ to a particular feeling so as a result, some of the actors had a hard time transitioning from the first non-verbal stage - the connection to their bodies and energy of that particular day - to the verbalization of their monologues.
Reboot Proposal: Even though we did work on the monologues selection, the ultimate decision was that of the actor’s and, we all picked the monologues using our “brains” rather than our bodies so, my proposal for the reboot is that of letting our sensory-somatic “MUSING ENERGY” choose the monologues.
ABOUT THE FINAL VIDEO - When the actors were first approached, they were told that the “final video” was to be mainly a “recording” of the results of the experiment and not an audition tape. THE PROCESS - the exploratory and training sessions - were the core of this experiment and THE PRODUCT or the final video was just a sort of a souvenir from the experience.
Reboot Proposal: Since the entire PROCESS will be virtual and therefore conducted via Zoom or a similar platform, the sessions will be “recorded” so this will hopefully take some of the pressure from the actors to “PERFORM” or focus on the final “session”.
ABOUT THE CHALLENGE
It is a “virtual” reboot so, teaching the SENSORY-SOMATIC APPROACH without the human contact is the biggest challenge for me as a director/coach and as for the actors, not being able to take advantage of THE COLLECTIVE ENERGY from having all the actors in the same space is certainly a disadvantage.
PROJECT DEVISING NOTES
CALL FOR COLLABORATION
At the moment I’m looking for actors to collaborate virtually in this project. There is no charge or pay to participate in this project. If you are interested, please contact me.
BACK TO LAT DIGITAL SPACE HOMEPAGE
WINDOW PEEPING: A NYC STORY
A LAT Digital Space production for the series NYC STORIES: Not Your Classic Stories based on my post: A Collective Energy of Some Sort.
A LAT Digital Space production for the series NYC STORIES: Not Your Classic Stories. Story about voyeurism, exhibitionism, self-confidence and a collective energy of some sort.
ABOUT THE FORMAT
Although this series was originally proposed as a collection of Short-One-Act Virtual Theater Plays for LAT Digital Space, I thought I better follow the ideas wherever they want to take me. Perhaps they will end-up as short videos, cross-disciplinary collection of works or - as they were originally intended - short virtual theater productions.
PROJECT DEVISING NOTES
CALL FOR COLLABORATION
At the moment I’m looking for actors to collaborate virtually in this project. You can either participate as an actor in a existent story or bring your own story (for stories requirements please contact me directly). If you are not an actor but would like to collaborate with the project, please contact me.
There is no charge or pay to participate in this project. If there was money to be made from livestream performances’ tickets sales or on-demand charges, the profits will be distribute equally among the cast of each show. For more information about the business side of this proposal, please contact me.
OTHER NYC STORIES CURRENTLY ON THE PROJECT DEVISING BOARD
BACK TO LAT DIGITAL SPACE HOMEPAGE
DIS-SCENT: A NYC STORY
A LAT Digital Space production for the series NYC STORIES: Not Your Classic Stories based on my Dissenting Scent story.
A LAT Digital Space production for the series NYC STORIES: Not Your Classic Stories based on my Dissenting Scent story.
ABOUT THE FORMAT
Although this series was originally proposed as a collection of Short-One-Act Virtual Theater Plays for LAT Digital Space, I thought I better follow the ideas wherever they want to take me. Perhaps they will end-up as short videos, cross-disciplinary collection of works or - as they were originally intended - short virtual theater productions.
OTHER NYC STORIES CURRENTLY ON THE PROJECT DEVISING BOARD
PROJECT DEVISING NOTES
August 18th, 2023
Since I no longer live in NYC, in order to convey the city’s inspiring energy, I first must explore the particular “energy” for each proposed story and to do so, I probably will end-up creating a series of sub-projects “triggered” by the original musing energy.
CALL FOR COLLABORATION
At the moment I’m looking for actors to collaborate virtually in this project. You can either participate as an actor in a existent story or bring your own story (for stories requirements please contact me directly). If you are not an actor but would like to collaborate with the project, please contact me.
There is no charge or pay to participate in this project. If there was money to be made from livestream performances’ tickets sales or on-demand charges, the profits will be distribute equally among the cast of each show. For more information about the business side of this proposal, please contact me.