The Prompt:
TITLE: Entrance Without Papers is Forbidden.
TITLE: Entrance Without Papers is Forbidden.
- Ensembles will select their sources of inspiration as their creative container (examples: a photograph, a poem, a fictional or non-fictional short story, a memory, interviews, a question, etc.). Ensembles will be asked to clearly articulate how their sources informed their process and product, form and content.
- Each ensemble will create a unique performance vocabulary informed by their source materials. This vocabulary should include movement, voice, visual image, sonic landscape, text and scenic environment and communicate the piece’s style and aesthetic.
- Ensemble should consider time restraints and travel considerations. These parameters are designed to form a creative container to spark your imaginations and deepen your exploration.
Logistics/parameters:
- Approximately 16’X16’ playing space; ensemble determines audience placement & interaction.
- Work lights up/down provided; any additional lighting will be ensemble-generated.
- Regions provide electrical power; ensemble must provide all technical sources (music sources, extension cords, projector, clip lights, etc.)
- There is a 20 minute time limit, which must include set-up, performance and strike. Set up and strike can be part of the performance.
- Contributions of the ensemble are to be balanced and evenly distributed.
- Not every member of the ensemble must perform, but the majority should.
- Faculty mentors may provide outside-eye feedback, but students should drive the work.
- No live flame.
- No smoking.
- No functional weapons.
Additional Information:
- Each showing will be given a short response from regional faculty and/or devising guest artists. Each deviser will be expected to speak articulately about their work, displaying rigor of process and responsibility for form and content.
- Devising isn’t an aesthetic; it’s a process. This approach to creating new work includes multiple aesthetics, production value spectrums, and performance styles.
- Participants should ensure that the content of their piece significantly reflects the prompt as it guides the creative process.
- Regions will only provide the space; ensembles must bring everything else. Be careful about making assumptions (availability of chairs, acting blocks, etc)
- Schools may enter multiple groups for the devising initiative.
- Deadline for submission – December 7, 2018 by 5:00PM. Send a Statement of Interest and a Cast List to Mike Ricci at MRicci@nhcc.edu by the December 7 deadline.
Please remember, in order to participate in this event you must register for the festival