routine hearings

went to a really interesting theater production - or i don't even really know what to call it. in any case it was this show where everyone received an audio head set that played different media clips from the late 1900s to present day and audience members sat on a "stage" and posed depending on their reaction to what they were hearing. so in the first stage, everyone sat in chairs and if, for example, you were drawn in by what you were listening to then you leaned forward, and if you were ambivalent then you turned to the left and covered your right ear and there were four different poses. and everyone had different media clips at the same time so people are both having different reactions to the same media and same reactions to different media etc. etc. then, in the second stage, everyone was reaction to media again but this time with walking forwards and backwards or standing still and staring at the ceiling (for distracted). this was really interesting cuz people were walking in circles or walking all around the grid on the "stage" and then every once in awhile someone would just stop where they were and look up. it was especially cool when we were doing the practicing of the movements that went with whatever adjective we were feeling and we'd be moving forward, say, to show that we were drawn in, and then the narrative would tell everyone to act distracted and the entire group would stop and look up at the ceiling - it's kind of hard to explain but i promise it was really cool. the last stage of movement was freestyle so people were just really doing whatever they wanted in reaction to the media clips they were listening to at the time - so some were lying on the floor for parts, or leaning on each other, or one person had their shoes tied on top of his head...just lots of different stuff. for the final part of the production (this was really really cool) we watched a video of everything we had done on fast forward and sometimes you could tell who you were and sometimes you were just one of the dark bodies on the screen - very interesting...

if you're confused about it, i understand, it was definitely an unorthodox production, but i'm glad that i went.