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“This reminds me of a place I used to work in National City, California, called Spotco Self Service,” Waits says as he leans against a pump. “I worked for a gentleman named Charles Spotco. I was always late for work. I used to stay out at night. I’d come dragging to work, used to get there about ten-thirty in the morning. He’d chew me out and scream at me for being late. He always said I’d never amount to nothing. I never thought I’d be standing in a gas station in Vienna Austria. If I’d of told him that one day, Spotco, I’ll be leaning on a gas pump at a gas station in Vienna Austria, he would have said you gotta be out of your mind.” - Tom Waits Sings and Tells Stories in Tom Waits: a Day in Vienna , a 1979 Austrian Film  ... was at that concert in Vienna ... his band was onstage for a good twenty minutes when finally he stumbled on looking disinterested & bedevilled ... nothing but a ruse ... the audience was restless ... it was the Vienna Konzerthaus not a bar in the...

Before fb & twitter & blogging is what it is now i wrote many a post like this. ... Herbert Blau ... knew of him only through his writings. The Impossible Theatre: A Manifesto came at the right time and i continued to read much of what he wrote. His theories attracted me at the start of my studies into theatre in the late sixties ... feel indebted to him & his passing causes me to pause & reflect on all those theatre workers who have shaped my path ... ... the first dandelions came this week ... a true celebration of spring ... await their arrival with patient anticipation ... my grandfather (now repeating myself though should write about Isadore Montalbetti) made dandelion wine & i love their sunny colour & their strength ... they have their season seeming to disappear in the heat of summer ... still each year they bring memories and smiles ... I stopped. The joy & discipline of writing/linking/searching/surfing waned. The purpose was never to b...

This past term had the oppotunity to instruct "upper year" classes. After an eternity of first year classes was excited. Posting the complete written responses.  STUDENT EVALUATION OF INSTRUCTION: WRITTEN COMMENTS  Course Number: Dram 467(02)           Course Title: Expressive Movement IV Instructor: Raymon Montalbetti  Academic Year of Course: 2012/2013  This class was fabulous to begin with, but as we proceeded the work revealed its meaning and lessons to us. There is no one besides Raymon that could have led us on this journey. I will never forget what I've learned here. Amazing. Thanks Ray!  This class had a very open structure which was something I was not accustomed to. I enjoyed my time, but sometimes found my attention waning as I didn't know what our learning was striving towards. Overall a very neat experience.  Raymon is a very unique teacher, one who I think that the department should use more wi...

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... associology is not highly plotted, but certainly is elaborately structured ... plot, character, setting and theme logic are potential paralysis ... related or corresponding event, recurring image and action are the essential substance of meaningful density ... repetition is a pattern of associology and also of dream and neurosis ... a condition ... without tradition, without belief the process is that of filling or emptying ... ... associology is breakdown or breakthrough work ... the self is the obstacle ... the only consolation & grace of work is to obliterate or to encompass ... "Now what?" Is always the question. Now what? A workshop. A workshop for creative workers exploring inner aspects of action. Starts with the whole body in space listening to the bones and singing the sound to develop a capacity of open, vigilant awareness. Moves to playing with & devising materials in improvisational time to experience and discover personal impulses of place...

trees breathe seasons time not still as boulders nor rapid as the river more like tall, tall grasses waiting waiting for a sign a companion's touch the whispering wind if I waited that long ants would devour me & the sky would darken to briefly open crying: "dance skeleton dance bitter before the moon." it was the bones singing with the one-eyed snake my father smiled from the bellybeast smashing fists down shaking his head: "Find the the lost eye." for years & years I have walked trails by the river listening for ancient stories the words no one knows climbing out over the water seeing nothing beneath but mud or the sun diamonds reflection sage & holy strangers, warriors & birds overhead I turn & wait another year to retrieve the flames under whatever floats around dancing whirlpools even under the ice of tears in this deeper absent sky "Find the lost." the uproot pelicans circle a...

Elements towards a Cartography of Training to Performance sources      vocabulary   environment   structure   interaction constraints  sequences   transitions      rhythm     exchange (training)    (etude) (score)           (play)     (performance) accept         commit         develop          offer          share         Glyph       Petroglyphs       Practice        Witness         Audience          substitution to augmentation to modification to redefinition                                     Three Key Characteristics  ...