900 Project/day 10/ June 27/ of hope & despair

Hope that we will remember word cues and despair that we won't.

Old Fools video link:  https://vimeo.com/172656515

Here is Limerick very rough cut from June 25:There was a young lady....
 
Alden Nowlen, a work in progress:   Nowlen

Nap time

Women at rest

900 Project/ day 9/ June 25 /Limericks 'r us

Randy gave us more word cues for the choreography for Old Fools, Over, Slow, and the Limerick Lalapalooza....  now we just have to remember them!

Sally meets Nat

When Sally meets Nat: the video

 

Toss & Turn: Pamela and George: 
The guys part of Over: Guys do Over
Layne made lots of notes and looked at last year's big piece of cardboard with some of our story notes.  And he was a most enthusiastic audience!

900 Project / day 8 / june 23 / Limericks to die for

GFCH on a gorgeous, breezy, summer day!  Randy says we are getting better at the 2-turn step in class!

Master of our universe

Here's us doing the 2-turn step: Turn, baby, turn!

George & Pamela.

George tries to stay awake after pulling an all-night shift.

Randy works with the guys on Over

More work...

Nat works on his own

The end of Over

And then the fun really begins with our renditions of some limericks; naughty and nice.

Hilarity ensues

Grace: when I itchez, I scratchez

Wayne got something stuck in his beard

A few of the limericks on video:
A few limericks

900 Project/ day 7/ june 20/ Bear River

 Sissiboo Coffee shop in Bear River is the angels' new go-to place:

Getting there is 1/2 the fun

Layne Coleman has arrived to whip us into some kind of shape... today he watches, makes notes, and then leaves to sit by the river.

Hard at work...

Grace waiting for that red dress

                             Video link for Alden Nowlen's I Sit Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded:
Alden Nowlen

And the link for Leonard Cohen's Slow
Leonard Cohen's Slow

Wayne...just waiting....

900 Project day 6/ june 18

We came from the Saturday's Farmers' Market, laden with veg, strawberries, bread, rhubarb tarts, and fresh spring rolls.  Then we had class.  Here's a fish-eye view of some of it:
Class Bits

Just hangin' around

Or lyin' around

Repulsing monkeys in Old Fools was next.... and a finish with arm-waving...in canon.  Sort of.
Old Fools canon

Phil reads the last stanzas of The Old Fools

You want us to do what?

I'm thinking, I'm thinking....

Randy started setting movement to the poem about the boy in a home.  Here is some of it:
New poem, new steps

June 16, day 5, GFCH

GFCH seems tiny after Bear River; however less room for errors! 

Ready to TURN!

Tim and Phil consult on Philip Larkin

 We're trying to synch our moves with word cues in the poems.  Sometimes it seems like a losing battle, but our leader is undaunted:   'Good, guys.  Let's try it again.'

Tim's pic of Randy's page-tuning for Phil

Old Fools repulsing monkeys was the next party trick: (video link)  Old Fools and monkeys

'Clumping' is our newest skill.  Who knew that inching our way backwards would look so interesting?  Here's the video link:   Clumping to 'Over'

June 14, day 4 Rebekah Hall, Bear River

We're on the road for rehearsal: at the Rebekah Hall, over the brand-new Sissiboo Cafe in Bear River.  The hall is a big almost - square room, a little drafty, but terrific to come from the corner in!  While Randy and George do the tech stuff, Grace lounges, Nat snaps pics, and Wayne looks around.

 Phil noodles on the keyboard.

It's a big day in class:  we learn to do a turn!  'That's good, guys,' says Randy.  We snicker. 
Watch the angels turn!

We run through The Old Fools, The Red Dress, and work on Over.  Randy suggests we write some of the movement down.  So maybe we can remember it next time.  Sally obliges.

Here's the link to Over:  Over

June 11, day 3

After some confusion over who was doing what at the Farmers' Market pool table, we arrive at the GFCH loaded with $8 carrots, $6 asparagus, spring rolls, Thai red curry and lots of Sissiboo coffee.

First order of business:  writing down the rehearsal schedule.  Subject to change.

Randy lets Nat lead class... a giggle was had by all.

Here's the link for our efforts with The Old Fools:
The Old Fools



Randy worked with George and Pamela on Slow.

Like this...

Like this?

Ooops!

How many people does it take to get George off the floor?

June 9, day 2

 During class, some of us have trouble finding the corners of the room.  Because, says George, the room is square?  And some of us need a skipping tutor...

 

As Phil said, why aren't we all SCREAMING!!?  Because we are having way too much fun.

Break time

Now to put some of the pieces together...here's the Vimeo link:

Beginnings...

This is the link for What Women Want ( you go, Grace! )video: 
The red dress

I always liked it slow video link:
I always liked it slow....

 

 Over!