WORKSHOP PROTOCOL — SIX-DAY LAB
WORKSHOP PROTOCOL — SIX-DAY LAB
DOCUMENTED STRUCTURE
The full protocol explicitly contains:
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
DAY 4
DAY 5
DAY 6.
The associated media archive labels these days Monday through Saturday.
Do not add dates that are not written in the protocol.
OVERALL ARC
The workshop develops through:
- open improvisation;
- Space;
- Shape;
- site observation and Grazing;
- Time;
- Emotion;
- Movement;
- accumulation;
- Flocking;
- 3 + 2 + 1;
- laundry-list composition;
- flow and soft focus;
- training versus process;
- building blocks;
- collective roles;
- Impossible Love;
- grid work;
- beginnings, middles and endings;
- Instant Composition;
- Open Viewpoints;
- Open Class;
- final Q&A.
SIX VIEWPOINTS IN THE WORKSHOP
The six materials were isolated for training, while the facilitators repeatedly acknowledged that the other materials remained present.
The purpose of isolation was to sharpen:
- awareness;
- vocabulary;
- embodiment;
- compositional choice.
TRAINING / CREATION DISTINCTION
The facilitators distinguish:
TRAINING
from:
COLLECTING PERFORMANCE MATERIAL.
Training places principles into the performer’s embodied awareness.
Material generated during training may later become useful, but that is not the immediate objective.