vendredi 24 janvier 2014

Treasure Island Newsletter #7

At this stage of the project, I'd like to address the children directly. Parents, would you please show the newsletters to your children? They/you can just read the paragraph addressing their group and this would be enough. Thank you!

Paragraphs are in alphabetical order
  1. Costume crew
  2. Parents
  3. Performers
  4. Props & Sets crew
  5. Tech crew
  6. Wish list 
1. Costume Crew
This week: 
- natives skirts: need to cut 1 more and sew 4 more
- native headdress: start learning how to make them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVkDFTd-un4&list=PLzyCEo0rLic_sM3PM1G8VAdgH6JAz9Udd
- cut and glue dog's ear
- cut parrot's costume 

2. Props & Sets

This week: 
- make 5 eyeglasses from pipe cleaners for 5 Jims, an old map, mugs, 2 black spots, 1 spyglass, 1 plate w. tofu patie & bean sprout. 
- prepare boxes and baskets for sailors to carry. 1 box has swords, 1 box has mugs. 
- saw a cane for Blind Pew
- set up & fix the palm trees
- cut 3 clouds
- make a hut

Next week: 
- make posters to advertise for the show, stick them around the school

3. Performers

Each of you have a Zip lock bag where to store your costumes. Each time you come to rehearsal, look for your bag, put your costumes on. At the end of the day, fold your costumes neatly, put back in the bag, and put the bag in the appropriate box. You are responsible for your costumes until the end of all performances. 
If you use something from home that could stay in the GLC, put that in the bag too. 

As of now, rehearsals on stage will be OFF BOOK. You are allowed to hold in the palm of your hand little note cards, in which you may write, one color for each of the following, one card per entrance:  
  1. cue when you should get to the stage
  2. cue when you should move forward to a microphone
  3. cue when you would start talking
  4. key words from your lines 
And you still need to bring your scripts to all rehearsal. Whenever you are not on stage, you can work on your parts, or can be prompters to your peers who are on stage. 

Remember the notions we learned last week: 
  • downstage, upstage, stage left, stage right, ...
  • full front, full back, profile left, profile right, one-quarter left, three-quarter left, ...
And apply at the next rehearsals: 
  • Never walk on stage as if you walk on the street. Walk with an attitude!
  • When you are not speaking, find a pose (level 1, 2 or 3) and stay like a beautiful statue, follow the conversation with your eyes, face, neck, chest, like a moving statue. 
  • Speak full front when you have a long sentence, one-quarter in other cases. Never speak in profile, three-quarter or full back. 
  • Open your chest, take a deep breath, on exhale speak from the belly. (Next week we'll work more with eyes and face, and add a few steps)
  • Sailors: always walk to the music (listen to the music and try to spot the rhythm!), deep bend of knees (demi-plie'), arms swing to the rhythm, opposite arms & legs. 
  • Natives: always clear the space in front of Ben Gun. When bow, bow in profile to center-stage. (Changed from previous instruction which was three-quarter)
  • Drummers: slower: listen to the soloists! Soloist singers: listen to the drum! Sing from the belly, open eyes, open chest.
Some of you have asked about the music pieces. You may purchase them from iTune or Amazon: 
Dances: 
  • Storytellers: Compilations/Adventures At Sea/ What shall we do with a drunken sailor.
  • Sailors: Rudy Sunde/ Chants de Marins Sea shanties/ Hornpipes
  • Island natives: Lyannaj/ Neve Bretagne Guadeloupe/ Sinanaye (Kaladja) or http://www.amazon.fr/Neve-Bretagne-Guadeloupe-Lyannaj/dp/B00B0U4HX0
  • Finale: Lyannaj/ Neve Bretagne Guadeloupe/ An pa kay (Padjanbel)
Songs: 
  • Across the line, sailors' song: Rudy Sunde/ Chants de Marins Sea shanties/ Across the Line
Parents
To help at lunch time, 12:30-1:30pm, please sign up through this Doodle link
I would love to loan 3 more drums for practice and performances, if you have ...

Wish list
  • Drums for loan until March 6
  • Empty plastic bottles of Coke (for bottles of rhum)
  • Toy crowns & jewels
  • Black, white, red clothing that you don't use at home.
  • Orange leggings, orange socks for parrot.
  • Cane for Long John Silver
One picture (or two) a day in Treasure Island in the Making 


Hao Bach-Thai Lueckhoff
Expressive Coach & Artistic Director
HaoExpression || www.HaoExpression.org
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