Lighted Rooms/ day 13/ july 4

Sometimes those lighted rooms feel pretty empty... look at this clip from the Old Fools:
Old Fools oops

Pamela leads Repulsive Monkeys

Guys' Over part

Randy is trying to get us to count in Leonard Cohen's Slow:  there are 7 eight counts, with a couple of 6 counts stuck in there.  We're trying, really, we are!

Where are we? (thanks, Tim!)

 Terry and Susan got to wave their arms around a lot.  Here's the link to the Nowlen video (minus arm waving): Nowlen again, and again, and again...

900 Project Day 12 July 3

GFHC on a gray morning of Canada Day weekend.  We have a new name for the piece:  Lighted Rooms, from Philip Larkin's Old Fools.  Randy takes us through the dance pieces and then turns us over to Layne.   He is good at getting us to push our envelopes and laugh while we do it1 

George's wasabe green runners are the subject of much shoe envy.

Phil noodles at the piano, Pamela listens.

Now Phil tells the story of Pansy,her transformation, and his subsequent melt-down.

Tim and the beauty inherent in a can opener

Terry has her caterpillar kiss and living trees.

Pamela smokes and kisses little Stevie Peever under the porta-classroom.

Grace, in HER turquoise Ford 4-cylinder long bed truck, trying to catch up with the oblivious Freeman on the big move north.

I have video snippets of some of our stories; but decided not to post them yet. 

900 Project / day 11/ June 30/ Bear River

900 Project...soon to have a proper name.  It seems we no longer add up to 900 years of lives lived as we are a smaller group this go-round.

Sissiboo Cafe in Bear River is an oasis of calm..and caffeine. 

Pre-rehearsal coffee at Sissiboo

Which is followed by mid-rehearsal coffee and getting out of town.

Layne has left the building

Randy ran us through the dance part of the session and then Layne sat us in a semi-circle and we told our stories.  He's good at getting more stuff out of us!  Our reactions to the stories were pretty varied and funny so there was lots of laughter.  No photos this time;  I kind of forgot!

Don't know why I have so many photos of George this time?  He brought in some beautiful images of his singing/dancing grand-mother and a small b/w snapshot of himself with her.

Video clips of Old Fools and the Limericks :
Why aren't they screaming? 
There once was a man from Nantucket... 

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....