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Author: M. McNeal
One of The Househedz Project's primary dilemmas thus far has been the issue of developing its huge box of ideas.
With TRPC, and because of most of the members' investment/native status in house, we have had so much to pull from, explain, theorize, make sense of. How do we manage it all? How do we pull together house's spill/excess (in its local and global variations) into some kind of structural frame? How do we create a comprehensible map for those outside or new to house culture?
With the company of Brown University students, I am building on several thematic seeds that arose in the original choreographic process. These include: the fluidity of sexuality/gender roles in house music culture (i.e., using performance to play on/experiment with subjectivity); and, the persistent tropes of decolonization, freedom and critical utopia embodied through house performance (as transcendence, escape, catharsis and transformation). And because of the generational gap between TRPC's membership and the Brown students, this phase of the work will attempt an exploration of the intersections between the house generation (1980’s-1990’s) and current "youth" culture (e.g., dancehall, hip hop, krumpin', footwork, etc.).
In addition to a studio workshop component, our creative process will be facilitated online. The wiki will serve as a virtual rehearsal and dramaturgical archiving space comprised of contextual materials about house (portions of the original script/material and other relevant media) and participants’ reflections on this collected material (journal logs, poetry, etc.). This transparency of the creative process aims to make visible both the labor and energy necessary to building new critical performance work and hopes to incite discussion with the general community outside the actual rehearsal process.
This creative process emerges out of an organic progression by building the project through many phases, many applications and standing by a principle that has been firm in all of TRPC's creative processes: That through deep play and experimentation, we can creative provocative and empowering, though still critical, performed statements about how culture is used to make meaning in the daily-lived world.
This wiki is conceived as a virtual archive and forum. The hope is to build a networked frame wherein the choreographic process can be transparent and also be informed by input from a larger community. Thus, for this project, some of the wiki's possibilities are:
One of The Househedz Project's primary dilemmas thus far has been the issue of developing its huge box of ideas.
With TRPC, and because of most of the members' investment/native status in house, we have had so much to pull from, explain, theorize, make sense of. How do we manage it all? How do we pull together house's spill/excess (in its local and global variations) into some kind of structural frame? How do we create a comprehensible map for those outside or new to house culture?
With the company of Brown University students, I am building on several thematic seeds that arose in the original choreographic process. These include: the fluidity of sexuality/gender roles in house music culture (i.e., using performance to play on/experiment with subjectivity); and, the persistent tropes of decolonization, freedom and critical utopia embodied through house performance (as transcendence, escape, catharsis and transformation). And because of the generational gap between TRPC's membership and the Brown students, this phase of the work will attempt an exploration of the intersections between the house generation (1980’s-1990’s) and current "youth" culture (e.g., dancehall, hip hop, krumpin', footwork, etc.).
In addition to a studio workshop component, our creative process will be facilitated online. The wiki will serve as a virtual rehearsal and dramaturgical archiving space comprised of contextual materials about house (portions of the original script/material and other relevant media) and participants’ reflections on this collected material (journal logs, poetry, etc.). This transparency of the creative process aims to make visible both the labor and energy necessary to building new critical performance work and hopes to incite discussion with the general community outside the actual rehearsal process.
This creative process emerges out of an organic progression by building the project through many phases, many applications and standing by a principle that has been firm in all of TRPC's creative processes: That through deep play and experimentation, we can creative provocative and empowering, though still critical, performed statements about how culture is used to make meaning in the daily-lived world.
This wiki is conceived as a virtual archive and forum. The hope is to build a networked frame wherein the choreographic process can be transparent and also be informed by input from a larger community. Thus, for this project, some of the wiki's possibilities are:
- creating an open-ended exchange for interaction/community dialogue
- constructing a flexible holding (archiving) space that is less dependent on the parameters of time/space (i.e. as opposed to issues for making live studio work wherein renting space, scheduling logistics, and deadlines to finish creative work are often imposed)
- experimenting with digital modes of scholarship by allowing multiple formats of documentation/analysis to live together including the following components: Text/writing (critical thought, poetic, choreographic process notes); Aural (mixes, interviews, excerpts from rehearsal process); and Visual (moving images and still clips from rehearsal/performance, original cultural contexts, places/landmarks associated with house)
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