BLOG

Final week

Posted by DCA Theater on September 24, 2009 in July-December 2009 Season, INCUBATOR Series: Striding Lion Interarts Workshop

by Karen Louis, Pioneers co-director

During our final full week of the INCUBATOR series, we lions have collected images and ideas from our environment, written our personal perspectives gleaned from observation and layered with experience, structured bits and pieces of performance and songs, and have come to the place where we are facing the final showcase with anticipation and excitement and the empty stage.

There is something exciting and daunting about walking into a theatre, as a performer, and greeting the space in which you are about to texture.  This is the blank canvas, and the work has been done to prepare to fill it.  The initial sight can bring a quick twinge in the stomach, a jump in the chest, and a moment to center and breathe.

There is also something about walking into a space and finding tables full of wigs, props and costumes.

This brings a shake of the head, grins, laughter, and the expectation that playtime is about to begin.

We’ve been playing with costumes, characters, absurdity, improv games and levels, applying these elements to the more structured work that has developed thus far

allowing us to inform the space of the stage with humor, specificity, and playfulness. But, as is the case with Striding Lion work, we never just stick to the stage itself.

As we round the final stretch of our workshop at the DCA, we are excited to share our process with you on Sept 29th at 7:30 pm, and invite you into the process with our upcoming season of open workshops and Night Roars events!