Headlines (2009)
Headlines (2009) direction: Paul Zmolek
A series of movement theatre performances as part of the inauguration festivities for Peggy Letterly Gunnerson's sculpture "Passage of Time" and at various Old Town Pocatello locations within First Friday ArtWalk. As Gunnerson's sculpture was commissioned to commemorate Pocatello's status as "Gate City", I wrote a text through free-association which then was used to create a physical theatre work. The resultant work was a bit too cynical for the inauguration ceremonies so I culled together various quotes about time to create another work to be performed ritualistically around the stylized sundial sculpture and saved "Gate City" for other sites in Old Town. Other works were created within the Practicum in Physical Theatre I was teaching at Idaho State University. Students wrote short "news items" that were prompted by three headlines pulled at random from a hat. They then created movement utilizing our creative methodology which was then structured into several short performance works. PZ |
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