Workshop in Vancouver

[HARRY HILL]

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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Adrienne Wong wrote:

> Hello everyone. I thought I would let you know about an exciting workshop
> that Rumble Productions is hosting in March. We are proud to bring
> Newfoundland theatre artist Jillian Keiley to Vancouver to conduct a
> five-day workshop on her creative process, kaleidography.
>
> Ms. Keiley is a director, writer and composer who graduated from York
> University (Toronto) with a BFA, specializing in directing. She is the
> winner of the Canada Council's 1998 John Hirsch Prize, and the 1996
> Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Emerging Artist of the Year Award.
> She is founding director of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and Artistic
> Associated of the Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company.
>
> In her artistic statement, Ms. Keiley describes her process, saying: "The
> central element controlling all that happens on stage is time... every
> second is contained and measured using music notation. Using our system of
> music notation and grid placement we are able to create visually complex
> scenes through relatively simple choreography. The term we use for this is
> kaleidography: synchronized movement harmonics. This works both in movement
> and aural aspects of performance; an actor has his monologue anticipated
> and reverberated by a twenty-person chorus through an underscored whispered
> fugue, with key phrases perfectly falling on the whispered echoes of the
> full group."
>
> COURSE OUTLINE FOR THE FIVE-EVENING WORKSHOP
> Day 1: Synchronicity
> This session will be devoted to getting the group to work on complete
> synchronicity. Using both composed material and organic synchronicity the
> group will work on identifying a leader and then move on to consecutive
> synchronicity where each person responsible for their own thing but
> completely interdependent. The session will investigate synchronicity in
> music, especially symphonic music, how this obvious musical tool can
> translate into theatre.
>
> Day 2: Aural 'Kaleidography' Acting within a score
> Participants will learn songs sung in rounds and with complex harmonies,
> and then use percussive accents within a 'soundscape.' They will touch back
> on Synchronicity and design harmonies. Then the focus will be on
> acting-mixing 'soundscape' and text, and lining up acting to fit a musical
> 'score.'
>
> Day 3: Physical 'Kaleidography'-Chorus as set/light/costume/sound
> The next step is to get the group to work on the grids using the
> 'Kaleidography' score. That's using grids and scores that Ms. Keiley has
> from previous productions.
>
> Day 4: Pre-Directing a production
> This session will concentrate on turning physical and aural 'Kaleidography'
> into acting and blocking and the notion of Pre-Directing a production.
> We'll talk about the actor's role in this and the differing approaches to
> text and development that this process calls for.
>
> Day 5: Right back to synchronicity.
> This is the session where participants will pull the works together.
>
> DETAILS
> The workshop takes place Monday, March 1 to Friday, March 5 from 6:30 pm to
> 10:00 pm at the Touchstone Theatre Rehearsal Space. Registration fees are
> $200 (+gst) for non-members after February 19th and $175 (+gst) for members
> of Rumble Productions. For more information, check out the Rumble website
> at www.rumble.org or contact Adrienne Wong (604) 662-3395, awong at rumble.org.
>