work samples 2010-2023
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for those that like a music montage work sample
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for those that like a raw footage montage work sample
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here is a highlight reel of a devising workshop facilitation
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to begin you must understand that devising is not a genre or a style or a form. it is an array of methods and ways of working that are as innumerable as the projects that are devised. it is entirely possible to devise a realistic, linear, narrative story play. devising is not, however, the usual mode of production for that sort of realistic genre or set of conventions. devising allows the theatre and performance makers to start with what they have: be that bodies in space, an idea, an object, an image, a song, a story, a gesture, a kiss, a fart, an explosion, or any combination of these and so many more possibilities not listed. to start with what is at hand and move towards an unknown endpoint that is usually a public performance of some sort. it is not the endpoint that can signal that a performance piece was devised. it is the method and way of working toward the end that was arrived at that will mark a performance as devised or not. with devising, there is no complete blueprint or roadmap. there is a series of impulses, and chance encounters and fuck ups. there is fumbling in the dark to just make something--anything--happen at all. because as long as something is happening, then it seems to be moving in the right direction. even if that right direction changes from moment to moment so that you end up where you started from. you will, however, have gone through all of that space to go from here to here again. and something will be different in that here.