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Endless Photos from rehearsals and performances of Continuous Play at http://www.flickr.com/photos/inmixedcompany/collections/72157603919477263/
...pondering Isadora. Was just writing to Brian Nishii - westwell productions - my longtime collaborator and founding member of IMC. He didn't want to move up to Northampton, MA for 2 years while I pursued my MFA - some 'like-a-brother' he is, huh! No actuallly, he's been up twice, which is more than I can say for other biologically related members of my fam. the email composing became a bit of a rumination that I thought was worth keeping track of...
Team Roster and Basic Plays for 'continuous play'
While I'm still trying to nail down how to interface audience-with-performance-piece, I decided that it might be fun to share the playbook with them. GroundCrew Joe and I talked about the Bang on a Can All-Stars - how making the All-Star parallel allowed them to invite certain audiences into the level of complexity in some of the contemporary music they were playing. So, in that spirit, I'm working on how to bring the audience to a basic level of understanding and encouraging a deeper level of engagement - to the point of participation. I'm still working up more Standard and Advanced Plays. But here's my Roster and Basic Playbook.
Play Ground - Play Time - Play Offs - Play Mate - Play er - Play Date - Play Book - Play Hard – Play Fair - Play House - Play Boy - Play Girl - Play Toy - Play Thing - Play School