WEBVTT 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:25.600 Good evening. My name is Mila Parish and I'm very pleased to be with you 00:00:28.489 --> 00:00:34.085 this evening to share with you something up here, Chair Pillow, 00:00:34.118 --> 00:00:40.576 Interactive Gateway digital Classroom. In this short presentation, we will 00:00:40.609 --> 00:00:44.875 provide background information and strategies implemented in this research 00:00:44.908 --> 00:00:52.207 project. Like most research projects. This project has many facets. First 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:59.156 and foremost is the creation and the reconstruction of Chair Pillow, a 00:00:59.189 --> 00:01:04.135 dance choreographed by Yvonne Rainer in 1963. 00:01:04.168 --> 00:01:08.486 As part of the Judson Dance Theater, Chair Pillow is part of a work called 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:13.456 Continuous Project Altered Daily. In addition to the reconstruction of 00:01:13.489 --> 00:01:17.947 this work, we wanted to revise the existing lava notation score for the 00:01:17.980 --> 00:01:24.046 dance and develop a dynamic interactive online curriculum for high school 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:29.745 students and their teachers. This curriculum is multifaceted. It focuses 00:01:29.778 --> 00:01:36.316 not only on Yvonne Rainer, postmodern dance, but the 19 sixties, 00:01:36.349 --> 00:01:38.346 political 00:01:38.379 --> 00:01:44.096 technological as well as the music of the 19 sixties. A really exciting 00:01:44.129 --> 00:01:49.745 aspect of this research project is the implementation of webcasting. All 00:01:49.778 --> 00:01:54.186 of our rehearsals and performances are being webcast on the internet. And 00:01:54.219 --> 00:01:57.816 in fact, this performance is being webcam. 00:01:57.849 --> 00:02:02.546 We had many people help us with this research project, first and foremost 00:02:02.579 --> 00:02:06.096 is Yvonne. 00:02:06.129 --> 00:02:11.267 Yeah, I'm gonna check with you. That was one of the most remarkable 00:02:11.300 --> 00:02:15.786 experiences in my life. And certainly, I, I think of the dancers lives 00:02:15.819 --> 00:02:21.267 prior to Yvonne coming out, we met Pat Patterson who set the dance and 00:02:21.300 --> 00:02:25.585 coached us in the nuances of this work. She worked with us for three days 00:02:25.618 --> 00:02:31.596 straight. So it was an intensive experience. In addition to Pa Valerie 00:02:31.629 --> 00:02:37.225 Mocky came out in order to revise the existing la locations for for the ST 00:02:37.258 --> 00:02:41.995 now, three really important graduate students assisted us with this 00:02:42.028 --> 00:02:45.577 research project. First and foremost is Jennifer Walker. She worked for 00:02:45.610 --> 00:02:50.646 the entire year on this research project assisting us with curriculum as 00:02:50.679 --> 00:02:55.775 well as teaching the classes. April. See you see a video video camera in 00:02:55.808 --> 00:03:00.225 her hand. She was our dance documentary. She is our video goddess. She 00:03:00.258 --> 00:03:04.467 videotaped absolutely every moment of this research project we have over 00:03:04.500 --> 00:03:10.267 60 hours of videotape. So it is a daunting task that she has in order to 00:03:10.300 --> 00:03:16.416 catalog and then edit and then post this video online. In addition to 00:03:16.449 --> 00:03:22.797 April, this is Nancy Campbell. She is our queen of webcasting. She 00:03:22.830 --> 00:03:29.975 assisted in every aspect of online webcasting with lots of troubleshooting 00:03:30.008 --> 00:03:35.525 and problem solving. Next, I'd like to bring out Kathy Lindholm Lane and 00:03:35.558 --> 00:03:39.517 she's gonna share with you some of the workshop strategies implemented in 00:03:39.550 --> 00:03:45.666 this research project. Kathy. 00:03:45.699 --> 00:03:52.386 Thank you, Mila. Good evening everyone. 00:03:52.419 --> 00:03:56.166 Our cast was made is made up of 16 performers. Six of them are high school 00:03:56.199 --> 00:04:00.066 students from the greater Phoenix area and 10 are university students. 00:04:00.099 --> 00:04:04.646 These dancers worked for 2.5 hours every Saturday since mid November. Plus 00:04:04.679 --> 00:04:09.267 , put in additional time when the guest artists were in residence. Early 00:04:09.300 --> 00:04:13.396 activities in the workshop focused on building community between these two 00:04:13.429 --> 00:04:17.217 groups. Uh Here you see our dancers performing one of Deborah Hayes's 00:04:17.250 --> 00:04:21.075 circle dances for everyone. 00:04:21.108 --> 00:04:26.127 A significant amount of time was spent observing and watching. Um Here 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:30.176 students are watching a student perform her autobiographical dance which 00:04:30.209 --> 00:04:35.887 was inspired by the work of choreographer Remy Charlotte. 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:39.217 Throughout the process, participants experimented with postmodern 00:04:39.250 --> 00:04:44.346 choreographic methods and ideas. They played a game of twister when 00:04:44.379 --> 00:04:48.656 investigating game structures and later, this game of twister became a 00:04:48.689 --> 00:04:52.447 metaphor for the struggles of the sixties. 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:56.245 After discussing and reading about the social, political and historical 00:04:56.278 --> 00:05:00.286 issues of the sixties, students identified the women's movement, the 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:05.726 Vietnam War and the civil rights movement as issues that they wanted to 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:11.555 investigate further in choreography. The resultant dances were blended 00:05:11.588 --> 00:05:15.877 together and performed at the high school dance festival in February. It's 00:05:15.910 --> 00:05:18.705 a state high school dance festival. This piece was called Speak Out 00:05:18.738 --> 00:05:22.116 Together. We have a voice 00:05:22.149 --> 00:05:27.067 as Milo mentioned, we would broadcast every rehearsal performance and 00:05:27.100 --> 00:05:31.786 guest artist residency. Uh This image is from the first time that we 00:05:31.819 --> 00:05:34.745 webcast and you can see all the dancers getting on their cell phones and 00:05:34.778 --> 00:05:40.967 calling friends and family to get online and and see them work 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:48.127 long intensive rehearsals also helped to bond this community of dancers. 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:53.197 We even s staged a sixties happening outside in the lobby. This group of 00:05:53.230 --> 00:05:57.906 dancers chose to make their happening occur on the stairwell. 00:05:57.939 --> 00:06:01.567 This group used the whole lobby area upstairs downstairs and even the 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:05.627 recycling bin. 00:06:05.660 --> 00:06:09.026 It was vital for students to reflect on and write about their experiences. 00:06:09.059 --> 00:06:12.736 At the end of each workshop, it is this information that we will use to 00:06:12.769 --> 00:06:16.596 refine and test the curriculum. Next year, 00:06:16.629 --> 00:06:20.217 our final exploration before Aunt Vonn Rayner arrived was centered around 00:06:20.250 --> 00:06:24.127 the work of Anna Halperin, a West Coast dancer who greatly influenced the 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:30.015 Jets and Dance theater. The dancers performed her earth dances in 00:06:30.048 --> 00:06:35.676 preparation for creating and performing outside this group stance is by 00:06:35.709 --> 00:06:41.645 the Hayden Library and this is by the Business School 00:06:41.678 --> 00:06:49.678 and then Yvonne Rainer came and it was a phenomenal experience. 00:06:50.629 --> 00:06:55.765 This is an excerpt of the Lavin location score for Chair pillow. It's like 00:06:55.798 --> 00:07:01.166 a music score in that a dancer who's trained in LA A notation can read it. 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:06.567 But unlike music score is read from the bottom up. 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:10.546 It is our goal to provide a comprehensive curriculum on postmodern dance 00:07:10.579 --> 00:07:13.955 that leads to other artists and events of the times for students all over 00:07:13.988 --> 00:07:18.745 the world. The site can be viewed through arts work and there are small 00:07:18.778 --> 00:07:23.046 postcards just before you go out the door, they look like this. We'd like 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:27.377 you to pick one up and you can access the website on the address on, on 00:07:27.410 --> 00:07:31.156 the, through the address listed here. We'd love to hear what you have to 00:07:31.189 --> 00:07:36.757 say about the site. And this is a page from the website 00:07:36.790 --> 00:07:40.046 down at the bottom. It may be hard to tell, but this is a movie. We have 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:45.567 several movies embedded in the website to illustrate the curriculum. 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:53.026 And finally we end where we began with Yvonne Rayner and Chair co Thank 00:07:53.059 --> 00:08:01.059 you 00:08:33.259 --> 00:08:41.259 when I was a little 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.395 and you young 00:09:45.428 --> 00:09:53.428 and 00:13:13.109 --> 00:13:21.109 mhm. 00:19:18.650 --> 00:19:24.717 I see a canal and it's very quiet there and there's a forest surrounding 00:19:24.750 --> 00:19:29.565 it and it looks like it's in the middle of the afternoon. On a summer's 00:19:29.598 --> 00:19:32.315 day. 00:19:32.348 --> 00:19:37.696 I see four dresses hanging up on a clothes line. They look like party 00:19:37.729 --> 00:19:43.045 dresses. They have lots of ruffles on them and they're all unzipped. They 00:19:43.078 --> 00:19:50.526 come in yellow, pink, green and white. 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:57.117 I see a bunch of people of different ages on a boat. Many of them have 00:19:57.150 --> 00:20:03.377 carnations in their hands and many of them look very sad. They seem to be 00:20:03.410 --> 00:20:09.867 waving at someone down below, but I can't see them. All I see is the water 00:20:09.900 --> 00:20:17.397 and the ridge of the boat and a bunch of people huddled together. 00:20:17.430 --> 00:20:24.147 I see a newborn baby boy and he's lying down in a bunch of leaves. He has 00:20:24.180 --> 00:20:28.805 a cardigan on. But the cardigan is not covering him, it's just around his 00:20:28.838 --> 00:20:35.006 arms. It looks like this baby was just born and it looks like he's been 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:38.835 traveling. 00:20:38.868 --> 00:20:44.916 I see another baby boy and he's being held up by his grandfather. 00:20:44.949 --> 00:20:50.857 The baby boy seems really excited and it looks like he's seeing his mom or 00:20:50.890 --> 00:20:57.357 his dad or someone, he knows his grandfather stands behind him and he's 00:20:57.390 --> 00:21:03.097 also smiling but he's looking directly at the baby's back. 00:21:03.130 --> 00:21:11.130 I can tell that they're at the beach and that it's really sunny outside. 00:21:12.328 --> 00:21:14.877 I see a Concord, 00:21:14.910 --> 00:21:22.910 I see two Concordes. 00:23:31.989 --> 00:23:39.989 Um, 00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:18.175 ok. 00:34:18.208 --> 00:34:26.208 Yeah. 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:35.566 Um, 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:40.945 no. 00:34:40.978 --> 00:34:48.978 Uh, yeah. 00:35:02.329 --> 00:35:10.329 Leave the, 00:35:12.030 --> 00:35:16.706 yeah. 00:35:16.739 --> 00:35:24.739 Oh, 00:35:37.500 --> 00:35:41.006 it, 00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:44.106 ok. 00:35:44.139 --> 00:35:50.376 Them, 00:35:50.409 --> 00:35:54.876 ok. 00:35:54.909 --> 00:36:02.909 Um, 00:36:16.219 --> 00:36:24.219 and 00:36:24.250 --> 00:36:26.967 on the table 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:35.000 crowd. Ok. 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:48.155 Ok. 00:36:48.188 --> 00:36:56.188 Yeah. 00:36:58.340 --> 00:37:06.340 And 00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:11.885 oe 00:37:11.918 --> 00:37:14.456 never 00:37:14.489 --> 00:37:22.489 about, 00:37:34.619 --> 00:37:42.619 uh, 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:14.039 French. 00:38:21.809 --> 00:38:24.717 Yeah. 00:38:24.750 --> 00:38:26.750 Uh.