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http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780472063840

HALFLIFE: Improvisations & Interviews, by Charles Wright (1989)

ScoreLab: Vida Rose and Laura Aschoff Photos of Stefan Gruber's notebook

ScoreLab: VIDA ROSE

ScoreLab: Jessica and Eli PHOTOSHOOT

Motivation/Inspiration/Impetus:

The communities that began here – queers, artists, weirdos, freaks, etc. Are they becoming marginalized, pushed out … MYTHICAL? Is the story of the Capitol Hill neighborhood now a myth? Your costume – mythical, ancient, vintage, explorer, adventurer, battle-scarred, superhero, treasure hunter, creature/beast, queer/weirdo/artist. Think about roughed up antique formalwear, think about Victorian muffs, think about telescopes, think about monocles, think about colonialism (have you been on both sides of the coin?), think about capes, think about old-school circus freaks, think about treasure maps. Bring any and all costumes and props you feel inspired to. My costume boxes will be of use as well. Then we will go out into the urban jungle. Posing through the alleyways and parks nearby. This character development might help and inspire you for Part 2 of our journey – the Walkabout Tour tentatively taking place on Sunday

Scores from Lab #1:

 Some Scores from Noam-ScoreLab #1

• Loving Kindness: Attune to ourselves, each Other, and our environment, Invite loving kindness, Notice what emerges, Repeat as necessary • Environmental love letters: Think about memories involving a particular place, and how it’s, Write love letters to the place, or to individuals one might find there, intuitively distribute the love letters to individuals, directly, secretly • Smurf on a string: One person at a time puts on a smurf stuffie tied to a string, Everyone else follows them around, noticing what their noticing, until they take off the stuffie necklace, Someone else can now put it on • Love’s blanket: Ask Love for details • Permission score:Travel, When you see someone you want to photo or audio record, ask permissio, Follow their wishes

Some Scores from Noam-ScoreLab #2

  Memory Score: Look around at the people, creatures, plants, rocks, buildings, etc. in your midst, Share any relevant memories

Cascade P-Patch Garden Library Score: One person at a time takes a book from the Garden Library (at the central west edge of the P-Patch, under the big cedar/cypress/juniper tree), opens to a random page, and reads the first words they see as if they were instructions, Everyone decides whether or not they want to follow the instructions

Scarecrow Score: There are some scarecrows, If you met them, introduced yourself to them, what gestures would you use?, Do they say things back?, What do they tell you about this land?, Have they ever scared crows here?

An Opening Meditation: Stand where you are.  Contemplate root.  Contemplate source.  How is place a part of who you are?  Who are you apart from place?  Feel rootless, adrift, adrift, un-begun.  How does loss of place play through these feelings?, Offering: Honor the space.  Note what’s changed.  Honor what’s gone.  Grieve.  Acknowledge what’s here.

Big Boulder at the Northwest End of the Cascade P-Patch Score: One person at a time adds themselves to the boulder, pretending they’re part of it., The last person left does not join the boulder but instead has 15 seconds to draw a “family portrait”

The Boss Score (Boss is a beautiful brown dog that came to visit): Say “hi” to everyone

Lily’s Not Screaming at Buildings Getting Torn Down Score: Instead, trying to think of it as a collaboration

Wild Beauty Appreciation Score: Group travels en masse, witnessing their environment, When someone wants to appreciate an image of wild beauty, they pause in front of it., Everyone pauses and joins,  silently appreciating the image, Someone begins enthusiastically applauding, Everyone joins in the applause, adding in hooping and hollering as desired, Continue from beginning, as desired

Cascade P-Patch Spiral Staircase Sculpture Score: Ascend the spiral staircase sculpture in the center of the Cascade P-Patch elegantly, with a piece of vegetation on top of your head (preferably edible.), Perhaps think about a metaphorical precipice which is approaching

Where am I?  What am I doing?  (Scan from the macro to the micro.)  Who is the doer?  Who is behind/beyond the doer?  BE that.\

Score for 4 People: People arranged like so or so or so—any arrangement will do, all in stillness, Person in the middle sits and writes 3 real time observations (could be bodily sensations, observations about the space, a thought/desire/fear/emotion/etc.), Person in the middle whispers one observation to each of the others then returns to stillness in middle, Others move, using the observations as a seed, staying present to whole ensemble, Person in the middle moves slowly in response to the others

Individual Loving Kindness Score: Ask yourself: “What do I want to do in this moment to invite loving kindness for myself?”, Do that thing, Repeat as desired, Periodically notice the ways your loving kindness for yourself offers loving kindness to others, Adjust your process accordingly

Imitate the movements of people & objects near you.  Try to reframe each move (e.g. take only the tiniest bit, 1 gesture) from each thing moving on to the next.  Ideal:  surrender into constant & fluid flow of info coming in & movement happening so your dance/move becomes its own coherent collage.

Sacred Group Organism Pilgrimage: Begin after already being sufficiently grounded in the wholesome delight of the Cascade P-Patch, connected to yourselves & each Other,  Improvise as individual and collective sound-and-movement bodies, very gradually migrating to the fence surrounding the [All Rise] sculpture, Throughout, engage in generous poetic expression & deep environmental listening

Sewer Symphony: Gather around the man-hole near the northwest corner of [All Rise] site, outside the fence, everyone bringing a substantial-sized rock, All make music with the rocks and the man-hole cover, while chanting & singing observations & intentions, Allow prayers to seep into sub-structure of the City, End in silence.

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