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Lab III: Joanne responds to Chrystene's writings

Joanne read my condensed version of The Big Living (<- link),  the narrative of my experiences around the 'seizure events'  which I posted to the blog after our last collaborators' meeting in October, and came up with something that this whole story seems to be yearning towards: namely, the concept of multiple realities which, in the end, become one inseparable cosmic whole. It was amazing to watch this and see that my 'script-bones' are coming to this same conclusion, and we have even independently come up with many of the same images to describe things.

Big Living/Big Dying is an ASL poem about three worlds. There is so much in  here I would like to draw from! It's giving me tons of ideas already... thanks, Joanne!!

Big Living - Big Dying
by Joanne Weber

Bird Woman - gloss for ASL Poem (from Joanne)

Hands in front of face

Book open (Facebook sign)

Bird,  hand reaches up toward sky

Flutter down (flutter five hand shape) and lands on shoulder (double crook fingers)

Bird,  hand reaches up toward sky

Flutter down (flutter five hand shape) and lands on head (double crook fingers)

Bird,  hand reaches up toward sky

Flutter down (flutter five hand shape) and lands on chest (double crook fingers)

Three hops to mouth (double crook fingers)

move into mouth,  open wide,

surprise (with eyes)

Both hands at chest (as if grasping baseball bat,  but pointing toward chest)

Hands flutter open slowly (flutter five hand shape)

Move up to head and both hands are at the side of the face

Look out of the portal (as created by the hands in similar position to facebook sign)

Surprise,  intrigue,  curious (show through facial expression)

sit on swing (double crook fingers atop of two fingers of opposite hand)

swinging motion 1 -  work up momentum,  show effort with set teeth

swinging motion 2 -  continue momentum,  show effort with pursed mouth

swinging motion 3 - final push -  two hands become wings of bird

flying motions (can be whatever you like)  (flutter five hand shape)

show surprise, curiousity,  joy (with face)

gradually bring hands back to chest (baseball bat position toward chest)

Double crook hands hop two or three times

bird sign

fly out of mouth - (flutter five hand shape)

look of loss, disappointment

hands at side of face (facebook sign)

close hands in front of face

Note:   hopefully this will be easy enough for you to try in front of the mirror!  Let me know how it goes!


Lab II: Joanne responds to Berny's piece
in response to Berny's video: Lifebook

Bird Woman [with ASL poetry]



Bird Woman [with voice]

The Big Living - story excerpts

Hey everyone --

This is a wild adventure, wow. It's been very hard to dig into this stuff but what a gift you all are! The support and excitement and creative energy that circles around this project is jaw-dropping. I feel so privileged and honoured to be able to work with such incredible artists, all willing to take risks and adventure into the unknown with me!

Also, Anne Bogart gave me some good direction in her suggestion of separating my own personal experience from manifesting the material as theatre/art, so I am getting my feet under me again (even if sometimes I am at a loss for words!)

Here are links to a pdf and a word doc of some compiled writings from the throes of those days that sort of outline the story as it happened, and the final resolution that I am still living with -- that everything is one, the Big Living and the Big Dying are all one and the same.

This might be a solid end-goal for the theatre piece.

Here are the links for downloading:

PDF
DOC

if those don't work, here are the long links:

http://chrystene.com/kaleidocycle/TheBigLiving_Blog.pdf
http://chrystene.com/kaleidocycle/TheBigLiving_Blog.doc

Love and adventure to all!

Words Fail Me

Words fail me.

Truth is never stated,

Words are over rated

And if this line should end in mid
No one of us would stop flying.

Formed wails,
Words fail me.

Feral wisdom: Dream is flow.

Wascana Lake: Response I from Joanne

Wascana Lake [with voice]

full size available by watching on youtube:

http://youtu.be/hK0z9t9eJZI

Wascana Lake [with ASL poetry]

full size available by watching on youtube:

http://youtu.be/hK0z9t9eJZI