for this week

Please take some time to respond to others' presentations/performances this week.

1. Post the text (or a version of that) of your own performance presentation on your blog.
2. Post comments to others' performances on their blogs. Your comments should address the following for each of the other class members' performance presentations:

Give specific feedback/response. What did you like about the work, why? What interests you about the work, why? How/what does this make you think about your own work? Do you have suggestions or ideas about the project (not critique but in terms of engaging with the work?).

schedule and assignments

For Wed 2/15 please come prepared to discuss the Ashbery, Duncan, and Helen Adam plays from Poets Theater anthology.

2/20 and 2/22 meet in library room 217 to do project 2 presentations.

Project 2 assignment: you are to present a textually-based performance work that incorporates some element of dialogue, some element of choreography, and some element of sound. These are open to your interpretation. You may utilize other class members in the presentation of your project if you like. Your presentation/performance should be 10-12 minutes in length.

2/20: Melissa, Matt Catania, Jonah, Kay
2/22: Emily C., Matt Mapes, Miranda, Emily R.

2/27-3/4 spring break

March 5-14 meet in Pray-Harold 308

for next week

For next week finish watching Godot (see links and info below)

Godot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKaDDWmFIjc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmiYSBJ54Io

Beckett:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1969/beckett.html
http://www.samuel-beckett.net/speople.html
http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~sek5/classpage.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfQUIy7TNIk


From the Kenning Anthology read the intro, the review (handout) and the following plays:

Mon: Spicer, Olson, Ashbery, O'hara
Wed: Duncan, Helen Adam

Come prepared to say 3 things, anything you want to say, about each... everyone will be responsible for the discussion.

consider submitting to these!

two places you should send some hybrid/visual/audio work:

http://yewjournal.com/index.html

http://textsound.org/index.php?ISSUE=11

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for Monday 2/6

This just in from Carla, to read from the Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater:

Carla Harryman's Third Man, Steve Benson's Views of Communist China, and Frank O'Hara's Try Try (I think it's in there...but maybe not). If not the O'Hara, then Baraka's Dutchman (we will read/discuss this on at some point if not Mon, another time).

Also, flip through and see what other things look interesting.

And bring questions, comments for Carla.