Yay video!
Hey, what do you know! The 18,000th try really is the charm. The sound, sadly, was apparently a casualty of my War To Get My Video On YouTube. Only the strong survived (and the music wasn't super audible in the first place). I encourage you to hum the tune of your choice as you watch:
Okay, now that it's finally live: the Works in Progress show was a very cool deal. A couple of people from work came to see why I limp in bruised and groaning every day. There were seven of us performing, representing hoop, several kinds of trapeze (including zombie trapeze!), hand balancing, and rope. Our acts were in various stages of put-together-ness, from people who'd been working on it for two or three years and were polishing it to a high sheen, to people who'd only barely memorized the order of their skills (*raises hand*). The others were lovely to watch, and they gave lovely feedback. Such as...
•The music goes with my character (you'll have to take their word for it).
•It feels like there's something missing when the music speeds up near the beginning (which it does, trust me)-- and it's funny, because there's a whole swinging section that wasn't quite ready for the showing, which goes in exactly that spot.
•Hold the positions for longer.
•Make the transitions look less like transitions.
No one mentioned me slipping right out of back balance (whoops-a-daisy), but I suspect that they were simply being polite. Daniela's remark, when we met for class, was that I can still push the character stuff further: as always, I find the acting stuff ten times harder than the physical side (although let it be said that four minutes is a very long time when you're spinning, climbing, and hanging from your ankles) so there is definitely more work to be done in that department.
Sunday Works in Progress is officially a regular thing at CC, with the next two scheduled in April and May. I intend to show up, if only to clap and learn, but I do also want to bring my act back in at some point and show it again. I'm skeptical how much will really have changed by mid-April, but that just means (as ever) that I need to get cracking. And I am still soliciting feedback: tell me what you notice in the comments.
•The music goes with my character (you'll have to take their word for it).
•It feels like there's something missing when the music speeds up near the beginning (which it does, trust me)-- and it's funny, because there's a whole swinging section that wasn't quite ready for the showing, which goes in exactly that spot.
•Hold the positions for longer.
•Make the transitions look less like transitions.
No one mentioned me slipping right out of back balance (whoops-a-daisy), but I suspect that they were simply being polite. Daniela's remark, when we met for class, was that I can still push the character stuff further: as always, I find the acting stuff ten times harder than the physical side (although let it be said that four minutes is a very long time when you're spinning, climbing, and hanging from your ankles) so there is definitely more work to be done in that department.
Sunday Works in Progress is officially a regular thing at CC, with the next two scheduled in April and May. I intend to show up, if only to clap and learn, but I do also want to bring my act back in at some point and show it again. I'm skeptical how much will really have changed by mid-April, but that just means (as ever) that I need to get cracking. And I am still soliciting feedback: tell me what you notice in the comments.
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