Everything Looks Like A Face: Wrote the narrative bits to link the songs together for Rough Cuts and sent them to the team. Erika: Watched another video on optimization.
Tag: Everything Looks Like A Face
A work of music-theatre in collaboration with composer Elizabeth Alexander.
context is everything
Everything Looks Like A Face: Wrote a synopsis to be used at the Rough Cuts performance to put the songs in context. We have two potential ways to order the scenes: chronological, and what we’re calling “mosaic order” – linked by structure, subject matter or imagery. There are two Rough Cuts performances, so we’re planning...
yer basic
Infrastructure: Got a rejection. Everything Looks Like A Face: Meeting at Nautilus with Elizabeth, Ben and Greg, the music director for the reading next week.
running to stay in place
Erika: Did some problems. After almost two weeks away, I un-master old skills just as fast as I master new ones; so even after a chunk of time working on problems, I am no closer to the next badge. Harumph. Everything Looks Like A Face: Worked with Elizabeth to refine/clarify the draft and sent it...
coalescing
Everything Looks Like A Face: Met with Elizabeth to further solidify what will be presented at Rough Cuts. Collated all the scenes and songs together. 60 pages! More than I thought.
impending
Everything Looks Like A Face: Responding to material from Elizabeth; working with her on a postcard blurb for the Rough Cuts performance.
good hustle
Mother Antonia: read Mary Ellen Chase’s A Goodly Fellowship, a memoir of her (Chase’s) teaching career. Her chapter on St. Catherine’s includes a widely-quoted paragraph about Mother Antonia (“[She] went at the realization of St. Catherine’s College with everything she had in her, and she had literally everything….She prayed while she hustled, and she hustled...
pattern recognition
Everything Looks Like A Face: Very productive meeting with Elizabeth. We start to see the larger patterns of give-and-take among the characters, and to sort out where there may be missing tiles in the “mosaic”. Erika: Did some problems. 11 skills away from the coveted Sally Ride badge.
baseline
Everything Looks Like A Face: responded to some of Elizabeth’s suggestions and comments. Erika: did some problems.
handful of tiles
Everything Looks Like A Face: have roughed out the rudiments of all the “tiles” – the individual scenes that will be juxtaposed.