Sunday Recap

Sorry it took me a while to get to this... work was busy this week. Crazy!

So to recap: Katie and I met on Sunday at my place and looked at some videos, the blog, and listened to the MMDP Mix 2. We also talked a lot and came up with some cool ideas (we think) and decided to start outlining the piece. Here is the basic stuff we worked on... please edit it if I missed anything. And feel free to comment, veto, add, etc. Oh, and we also estimated how long we think each part will take but this is purely hypothetical and now that I'm looking at the numbers I'm not even sure it all makes sense.

Anyway...

1- Setting Up: 5 min.
One or two people setting up for the party (literally bringing in stuff for the set, etc.) Audio: pre-recorded conversations of guests coming to the party.

2- Arrival: 2 min.
Guests start to trickle in until all of a sudden it looks crowded. The first few can help finish setting up. Someone goes over to the sound system and turns the music on. People start moving/dancing (not social but more abstract). Use that movement to move into a structured phrase done in unison.

3- Unison Phrase: 2 min.
This phrase will be repeated later in the piece in different ways. In this case it will be in unison and very "clean". It breaks the ice and signifies the Start of this evening.

4- Love Duet: 3 min.
EasyBake dings at end of unison phrase and this breaks up the dance. The young lovers transition into their duet (which is very dancy, cheesy, attention grabbing, and big). Everyone else is doing a structured improv (choices: eat, drink, leave, or mingle?) Their dance is more gestural--but not sign-languagey--and maybe more pedestrian than the couple.

5- Trio: 5 min.
During the duet people gradually leave the stage, including the young lovers, and eventually only 3 people are left onstage though they are not interacting. The notice each other and its awkward (like in the Anniversary Party when Parker Posey gets left all alone in the house). This trio is about people learning how to interact with each other, forming relationships, and being honest. By then end they have all bared themselves to each other, maybe there is some weird tension/attraction, clearly they have all been a part of something very honest/personal. Tension is high when it ends with an interruption. Maybe an EasyBake ding? or Maybe someone else walks in on them.

6- Attempt to Sit: 1.5 min.
This is fast and hectic. Trying to get everyone to set down to dinner. Some people are trying to take control, others are not so much into it. They are never all at the table together. Chases, under-the-table stuff, couples trying to sneak off, etc. Things have started to fall apart and this is an attempt to do what they are "here to do".

7- Together: 30 seconds?
Finally everyone is together at the table but it is very quiet and awkward. Everyone is just kind of looking at each other not sure what to do. Very intense. Eventually someone leaves abruptly. (maybe leaves the party altogether, maybe to answer cell, maybe answers phone at the table "yeah. I was just leaving.", maybe gets up and goes w/o any reason)




That is as far as we got. Still to come: (1) a few more "relationship dances" including a dance that is clearly happening in another room while the rest of the party is going on. They won't necessarily be couples, but they are dances that do not involve everyone at the party. Ideas for this????
(2) Twister!! Someone brings out the game in an attempt to get the party back on track (like charades in the A.P.) spinner is very serious about it, turns into people just having fun?
(3) Return of the unison phrase but now as a looser dance, maybe not in unison. Possibly more soloey.
(4) Alcohol/drugs dance? later in the night? more social?

Also we don't know how it ends yet. And I feel like I must have forgotten a lot.

Please fill in the gaps!!