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It has become a part of a way of looking at playing the play. Developed over the years & seems time now to open and share. SoulWork: An Associology experiment on the play Grass Tomb by Oh Tae-sok . A Drama 119 class experience at "The Temple" (studio in Saskatoon) conducted by Raymon Montalbetti with music AeRan Jeong. Text Actors encounter a play. Read the playwrights text. Follow stage directions. Research the setting, the time & the place. Prepare to build a character. Create a role. Listen to the vision of their co-workers. Uncover emotional landscapes. Imagine a life. All this is known. It is the skin and bones, the tissue and muscles, the senses and thoughts and the heart and breath of a play and playing. What about the soul. I mean the soul of the play. Everything unknown beyond the play boundries. If a play has a soul how ... Peter Brook writes in the Empty Space : "In the theatre 'if' is an experiment." SoulWork is a noe...

The end of term brings final presentations.  A Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program ( SUNTEP ) group chose to play with the tool blacklight . They told a story of the creation of the medicine wheel. Mixing a natural animal soundscape with Electric Powwow  The Creator: 4 Medicines   a piece of disarming simplicity emerged to reveal untold depth. There was no narration just movement, sound & image. They affectionately called the music "dubstep powwow". The presentation ended with members of the class making a medicine wheel which glowed in the blacklight as seen in the photo. Within the written documentation was a deeply personal statement. Shared with permission. "A personal account that I had with a Sacred Eagle was last August.  Last August my 18-year-old cousin was traveling from Saskatoon to North Battleford when a tire blew. They did a 180 and landed in a ditch. My cousin got out of his vehicle and noticed there was an Eagle sitting...