Group of the Week, Open Studios & more!

THANK YOU to everyone who came out this week to see our Group of the Week presentation on Thursday and the Blue Sky Open Studio on Saturday!

We hope you enjoyed the preview of what's to come at our Final Performance/Exhibition, in addition to the side-material and general overview of how the project's been coming along and what we BlahBlahs do day-in & day-out.

For those who couldn't make it, no worries.
The Final Performance/Exhibition is just 2 weeks away! Crazy.

We've been diligently planning and practicing, working on our sound and video, having fun, staying loose, and preparing the Exhibition space (an undertaking everyone at Blue Sky has been cooperating wonderfully to complete - Resident Artists, Student Artists, and Youth Participants alike).

If you haven't done so yet, check out our Flickr.com gallery to see new photos.
Including new vignettes:

PacSun @ Dayton Mall

Yesterday (June 29th), we field-tested a variation of our Gesture Study.
The exercise involves observing and mimicking body language, considering how we intentionally and involuntarily behave and present ourselves, and what different factors may influence these movements.

With a big THANK YOU to the Dayton Mall and Sarah from PacSun, the Youth Participants (plus Carolyn Ruck, Student Artist a.k.a Resident Artist's Assistant to Blue Sky Project Resident Artist Marin Abell), were able to pose as live mannequins in PacSun's storefront window display. Fully geared in merchandise, our group surprised and confused Mall-goers - posing, dancing, mimicking their actions and observing their reactions.

see MORE PHOTOS!

video coming soon

National Social Media Day

This being very relevant to the subject matter of our group's project, we thought you should know: Today (June 30th) is National Social Media Day!

Created by Mashable.com (see event page), it is a day recognizing the ways in which Social Media has changed our lives. How do you use or view Social Media? How do you interact with or communicate through it? Do you prefer some sites or mediums more than others?


Look for our Social Media Survey coming soon!

Bucket Brigade

Shared by Blue Sky Project Resident Artist Kaz McCue, documentation of a Bucket Brigade collaboration between his group and ours.

see their original blog post WITH VIDEO!

see MORE PHOTOS!

Snapshot Vignette

Our "snapshot vignette" exercise relates to these definitions:

1. A short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, an idea, or a setting and sometimes an object.
   see Vignette (literature)
   
2. Collect information by presenting hypothetical situations and asking participants a set of questions to reveal their perceptions and values.
   see Vignette (psychology) 

The objective is to tell a story through a limited number of photographs (around 3-4 shots), capturing expressive body language and use of space, framing, environment, props, etc. 

see MORE PHOTOS!

a MUCH more elaborate example

 

see another example

Viewpoints

Viewpoints is an improvisational practice that supports another vocabulary for movement on the stage, beginning with pedestrian movement and growing from there. It is VERY helpful in creating a sense of "ensemble" or group-team-togetherness.

The 9 Viewpoints are:

Space

• Architecture (movements/pathways based on the space/environment and any objects or elements in it)
• Spatial Relationship (distance from someone in the ensemble)
• Topography (landscape, floor pattern, design, etc)

Shape

• Shape (lines, curves, angles, etc formed by the contour of the body)
• Gesture (behavioral and expressive)

Time

• Tempo (fast or slow)
• Duration (how long a movement or action lasts before it ends or changes)
• Kinesthetic Response (impulse reaction to something or someone outside the body)
• Repetition (internal - repeating one's own movements , external - repeating the movements of another

 

Viewpoints on Wikipedia

Viewpoints Facebook Page 

The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

Thought of You

This was shared by Student Artist Tami Liss.

An animated short by Ryan Woodward that includes figurative works, 2d animation, EFX animation, and modern dance.
See the original and more at conteanimated.com