Ouroboros

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Jae Gonzales, Lighting Design: Suki Xu, Photo by Carlo Marchet

PHOTOS

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Sarah Carter, Steven Hass, Chaucer Gilson, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Tamara Trbaric, Mavrik Sun, Max McLaron

Lighting Design: Suki Xu

Photo by Carlo Marchet

Performer: Katie Gherasim

Lighting Design: Suki Xu

Photo by Carlo Marchet

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Sarah Carter, Sara Van Gaalen, Chaucer Gilson, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Mavrik Sun, Max McLaron, Oliver Fusio, Hermella Araya, Inkara Julmagambetova

Lighting Design: Colleen Bayati

Photo by Carlo Marchet

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Sarah Carter, Sara Van Gaalen, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Steven Hass, Max McLaron, Inkar Julmagambetova

Lighting Design: Lucas Guo

Photo by Carlo Marchet

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Jae Gonzales, TJ Tan

Lighting Design: Micheal

Photo by Carlo Marchet

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Jae Gonzales

Lighting Design: Suki Xu

Photo by Carlo Marchet

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Tamara Trbaric

Lighting Design: Albina Dyusenova

Photo by Carlo Marchet

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Tamara Trbaric,

Lighting Design:Albina Dyusenova

Photo by Carlo Marchet

Performers: Katie Gherasim, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales

Lighting Design: Micheal

Photo by Carlo Marchet

Performer: Katie Gherasim, Sarah Carter, Sara Van Gaalen, Chaucer Gilson, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Mavrik Sun, Max McLaron, Oliver Fusio, Hermella Araya, Inkar Julmagambetova

lighting: Lucas Guo

Photo by Carlo Marchet

PERFORMANCE

Video by Haily Gil

CREATION PROCESS

REHEARSAL VIDEOS, PHOTOS AND NOTES

SCENE TWO: ODE TO GOD

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Tamara Trbaric,

Lighting Design: Albina Dyusenova

Photo by Albina Dyusenova

NOTES:

Initial Impulses: A conversation with God, the person is cold and angry at God. Bitterness, coldness, blunt, curt, longing, desire for connection. Heavy themes of life and death, mortality, prayer, and power status.

Quick Write: "Cold and frigid bones, closed off, but they are quite intelligent, maybe to intelligent- they don't allow themselves to feel anything to greatly. They are like the icy wind, that invades the exposed skin on the back of your neck where the collar of your shirt sits. But happens if they feel a touch of warmth?"

Feedback: Play to the round and preform through your entire body (your backspace). Have the human shift and move to meet God's hand, not the other way around.

KATIE:

I don't recognize you.

Do you recognize me? The weight of your excuses is dragging down the skin under my eyes.

"Everything happens for a reason."

No it doesn't? Or does it? I assumed you were precious and meticulous with what you have created- how you let existence unfold.

I didn't realise you would be so feeble. This small. So where does that leave me?

Do you recognize me? Or what is left? I'm starting to look like you; I have been told I'm ageing rottenly. Our egos do not wear us well.

My mother used to say " the universe is benevolent '', I know now people only believe that when they selfishly get what they wanted.

So was your desperate need for attention? Or just you fumbling your hands?

Why do some learn of love from the living, and I experience it from the dead?

I wish grief would consume you.

Gluttonous, it's ingesting you alive.

Desperately, you are trying to catch your breath as it tears back the layers of your exterior.

Tangling and knotting the cords in your throat.

Gorging on the textures of your heart.

Scrapping and thrashing against your ribcage, as it's far too big for your body

You can't breathe, there are far too many cavities in the groves of your lungs.

it settles down on your shoulders pulling what's left of your weight down.

Until it finds the raw flesh on your face again.

Performers: Katie Gherasim, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Tamara Trbaric, Oliver Fusio, Video by Albina Dyusenova

SCENE THREE: CACOPHONY

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Jae Gonzales

Lighting: Micheal

NOTES:

Score: For two minutes play foxes tail. Your goal is to have all the tails at all times, and the game plays in loop as you always put grab or protect what you have.

Feedback: Allow the lights to influence how you move throughout the piece. Ethier allow a pulsation of the moment or have full energy for the entire of the piece. Allow your breath to be heard.

SCENE EIGHT:WAX WINGS

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Sarah Carter, Sara Van Gaalen, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Steven Hass, Max McLaron, Inkar Julmagambetova

Lighting Design: Lucas Guo

NOTES:

Score: Starting with Jae and ending with Max, every performer must climb up over the group and land on the other side.

Feedback: Squat down lower, and don't bend your back down. Have a wide stance and take your time. Have variation in how every person land (example: landing on hands and other performers landing on their feet). Allow for small adjustments within the body and breath.

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Sarah Carter, Sara Van Gaalen, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Steven Hass, Max McLaron, Inkar Julmagambetova

Lighting Design: Lucas Guo, Video by Chaucer Gilson

AUDIO INSPIRATION

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Sarah Carter, Sara Van Gaalen, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Steven Hass, Max McLaron, Inkar Julmagambetova

Photo by Vicky Kwok

SCENE NINE:TOUCH AND GONE

Performer: Katie Gherasim, Sarah Carter, Chaucer Gilson, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Max McLaron, Steven Hass

Photo by Vicky Kwok

NOTES:

Score: Move and shape another performer. After being shaped, the performer who was sculpting will freeze, and the performer who was sculpted will move and repeat the process after. After Katie speaks for the first time everyone will monologue about a real person they know as the sculpt the other actors.

Text: "Best friend has the most contagious laugh, and that makes it my favorite laugh. We are always out of breath. I'll breath funny and he will lose it, then I'll lose it".

Feedback: Be more fluid with body and movement when being shaped. Stay presnet within body and project energy out the back, front, and sides of your body. Feel free to speak you text at the same time as someone else.

Performer: Katie Gherasim, Chaucer Gilson, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Mavrik Sun, Max McLaron

Photo by TJ Tan

Performer: Katie Gherasim, Sarah Carter, Sara Van Gaalen, Chaucer Gilson, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Mavrik Sun, Max McLaron, Steven Hass

Photo by Sarah Carter

SCENE TEN: ARTIST LEAD

Performer: Katie Gherasim, Sara Van Gaalen, Chaucer Gilson, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Mavrik Sun, Max McLaron, Steven Hass, Oliver Fusio

Photo by Sarah Carter

NOTES:

Concept: A drawing contest, however, your hands are not your own and the audience will shape the outcome of the visual art, and how the performers move within the space.

Feedback: Have more special awareness with everybody on stage. Take the contest seriously! How can we make this more genuine for performers and more amusing for audiences?

SCENE ELEVEN: SUMMONING PATIENCE

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Sarah Carter, Sara Van Gaalen, Chaucer Gilson, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Mavrik Sun, Max McLaron, Oliver Fusio, Hermella Araya, Inkar Julmagambetova

Photo by Vicky Kwok

Performers: Katie Gherasim, Sarah Carter, Sara Van Gaalen, Chaucer Gilson, TJ Tan, Jae Gonzales, Mavrik Sun, Max McLaron, Oliver Fusio, Hermella Araya, Inkar Julmagambetova

Photo by Colleen Bayati

NOTES:

Concept: Exploration of sound as an ensemble; the creation of a "sound bath". How can creating sound and melody as an ensemble recontextualize a monologue earlier within the piece.

Feedback: Take time before the show to conect as a group through sound exploration, so you are prepared for whene scene 11 occurs. Take your time through you exploration on stage, and allow yourself to find both harnony and disharmony.

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