I picked up the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone deciding that now would be an appropriate time to reread the series, and then started feeling guilty so I put together one of the Artfessionals instead.
As promised, here are some responses to the question, "What does S.P.A.E. really stand for?"
As week one came to a close on Friday afternoon, we reflected on all that we had accomplished together. We'd had two movement workshops lead by L+G alum Michaela Tietz where the SPAE-ers collaborated to choreograph their own dances. We had two music workshops with Ron Kelley where they learned some STOMP and made up their own Woodsy-Jam to use as part of the Sherwood Forrest. We cast "Robin Hood" and blocked more than 75% of the show.
We built props, designed costumes and makeup, learned songs, had dance parties, assassinated each other, chopped each other in half, and through improvisation created around 50 tiny scenes together about the strangest stuff. My favorite scene that was built from improvisation was a secret Hokey-Pokey society that met in strange places to do the dance. We never established why it was so important that they do the dance, but there was always a real sense of urgency.
Each year there are sort of hot topics that end up reoccurring in many improvised scenes. This year too many seemingly normal scenes ended in either a zombie apocalypse or one of the characters leaving to find a unicorn.
Week one left me feeling simultaneously exhausted and exhilarated. There was still so much to be done on the show- but we had come so far as a community that I wasn't concerned so much with learning our lines and blocking our scenes.
What mattered was that we, in our individual pods and as the whole group, had gotten really good at "Big Booty," Screaming if we made eye contact with each other, and perhaps most importantly, supporting each other through everything we'd come across.
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