Pied Faces on Super Saturday
June 16, 2008
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Super Saturday
June 14, 2008
I’ve been creating new collateral materials to augment performing (BUSKING! AUGH!) at Super Saturday…
Poster board, monogrammed towels, gift certificates, etc.
It’s great to be in the flash of inspiration. Like the rubber chicken with the head cut off, actually.
Yesterday I realized I wanted to use laminating technology somehow. So I opted to have 12 of my business cards laminated for the 12 pie-in-the-face recipients to use as scraper/ spoon. It beats having to contribute disposable plastic spoons to Evergreen’s waste stream… which will be overflowing by 2 PM.
Also, as a way of avoiding additional paper towel rubbish, I purchased a 12 pack of terry cloth 14″ x 17″ shop towels and monogrammed them with red and black sharpies to match my spiffy logo.
I’ll connect with
Dawn of the Simple Fool’s Silly School of top Secret Esoteric Clowning
the Evergreen Circus Resurgence (2 members of which have volunteered to take a pie-in-the-face)
and, this evening at the Capital Theater, Pure Cirkus (in post-Jusby/ Comedy Consultant on 5th anniversary date attire).
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Protected: The Criss Cross Circus
June 6, 2008
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Protected: Evergreen Juggling Club/ Circus?
May 30, 2008
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Sanctuary teaser
February 19, 200817 seconds… even you have dial-up, you can watch dis
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cherie dehaven butoh
February 18, 2008cherie dehaven butoh
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Since doranne died…
November 22, 2007Since doranne died, Justin B. Wright, comedy consultant, has been telling the same two stories about her over and over, and that’s a sign he ought to write them down.
doranne preferred to leave both her first and last names in all lowercase. This isn’t one of the stories, but you ought to know in case you start suspecting Justin of laziness in the area of SHIFTING… or would that be SHIFTLESSNESS?
Justin suspects that doranne started it in homage to e.e. cummings, but he can’t remember any reason she gave. In graphoanalysis (a hobby of Justin’s) it would indicate issues of low self-esteem, but since doranne lived in a kind of bizzaro-world, a wonderful carnival mirror-world (if that feels kinder), Justin also suspects doranne used the lower-case to say, “Look at how I’ve become ego-less!” Consider how many people she would have had to correct who simply used the standard formula of proper nouns require capital letters to indicate respect.
Justin suspects he did not use the secretly respectful and more intimate lower-case when writing her name on official college documents such as Individual Learning Contracts and Evaluations.
Several years into their association, Justin noticed that doranne also wanted certain phonetic accent marks to be used with her name as well, like the flat line over the ‘o’ and the circumflex (hat) over the ‘a’. This meant, for the technologically challenged apprentice, writing in the marks by hand on posters/ playbills etc.
Justin will skip the accents in this blog. You can write them on your screen if you like.
Here’s the two stories, followed by a poem by e.e. cummings.
1. “I was getting stressed about my 20th reunion party, and I had taken up smoking cloves again. I got the e-mail that doranne had died from lung cancer, and I remembered that she had smoked cloves many many years ago. She told me that when her lungs started to bleed she gave them up. All the time I knew her she had been a health-nut. She danced. She did yoga. She ate healthy things and drank tea. She meditated. The message it sent me was: YOU CAN’T QUIT! I smoked the rest of that pack in her honor.”
2. “doranne was my advisor during my final quarter at Evergreen when I studied clowning. At the final performance, she was nowhere to be found. I asked her about it, and she said, “I’m afraid of clowns.” I thought, “That would have been nice to know 10 weeks ago when I was picking an advisor!” “However, we had been spending more and more time together over the course of two years, as I took every butoh module and leisure ed. offering, appeared in every Kagami performance, and arranged for video documentation of same. She was my teacher.
“During final preparations for one performance, she let us know what to wear. She said, “White button-up shirts and (looking at me) no polka-dots!” “Since I didn’t own a polka-dot shirt, I figured I was fine. The thought hadn’t crossed my mind. However, at the free box I found… a polka-dot button-up shirt! All I could remember was ‘costume-doranne’s instructions to me-polka-dots’, so I took it.
“I wore it to the performance, and you should have seen the look on her face! Luckily, I had a white T-shirt on underneath it, or I might have been cut from the show and troupe right then! That polka-dot shirt became my clown shirt. It has powerful magic.”
In conclusion, here’s a poem Justin sang during a jam session in Mod 317-A from around that same time. (emphasis added)
‘O sweet spontaneous’
O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the doting fingers of
purient philosophers pinched
and poked
thee, has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy beauty .how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and
buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods (but true
to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic lover thou answerest
them only with spring) — e. e. cummings
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An old self-evaluation
August 10, 2007I realize that I’m halfway through a story, but I’ve noticed that I’m getting a lot of hits from people searching for Doranne Crable information.
I found this self-eval archived on my old geocities webpage. It refers to several more of the many videos I have. It also uses obscure jargon or original words of my own invention.
“I conscripted a Boo! of three teratologists [monster studiers] to videotape Kagami in the witless landscape of the Recital Hall. They produced five tapes [Hi-8 and S-VHS] which I edited into a single tape of “Sanctuary”
Zen walking and waterfall yawning to the bamboo forest of baby monkeys before the
distant
dragon mountains
I inadvertently supported unofficial Super-8 filming which bred suspicions of hidden agendas and covert profiteering.
I videotaped two Kagami dancers in a public improvised piece facilitated by another contractee.
I produced a demo in the TV studio of the Laban Cube technique using two dancers on a bare set. I also instructed these dancers on the use of the TV studio cameras, so they could assist taping my solo which also used the Laban Cube but in the context of an Indonesian POWs story.
kagami also performed a piece called “Blue” in the 4 Seasons bookstore. I released my role of video coordination and fully entered into the dancer’s character as
a Rube with an allergy on the Coletrane to the loon bar
burning lightning bridges on the smallest violin.
By lamplight, the fortune telling miracle fish jumped, kiss-kiss-kissing indifferent and in love, activating the prelude to a mistaken identity rendezvous with the mirror and gesture to the center
of the blecherous lab rat territory
which was
pleasantly haunting
though I wish I could see it on tape. I’ve pressed into a potent membranous emotional frontier between the process of dancing and the product of a dance video.
At the request of Doranne and the dancers in the academic module I also released any videography of our final performance. For some it was their first performance, and I fully understood their desire to minimize the distractions. We performed in front of the Recreation Center at 4:44 PM with live musicians and more elaborate costuming than usual.
I wore hospital scrub pants with an inflatable life vest and large sponges taped to my feet. I carried a grocery bag of dried roses and walking stick insects to the center of the space where I offered them to the dancers.
The quarter had a terrific culmination in Seattle with the workshop and performance by the great Japanese master, Akira Kasai. His style is vastly different from the aesthetic that Kagami works in, but the intention is the same: to question and explore movement and sound using imagery from non-human sources. I had the honor of presenting Kasai-san with a copy of “Sanctuary” and the three studio pieces.”
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Related Background
April 11, 2005Clowning:
Member of Clowns of America International
Member of Olympia’s Clown Alley, the Red Nose Brigade 2004-2012, Historian/ Futurist, Webmaster, Convener
Over 600 Pies-in-the-faces Delivered, Dozens of Birthdays Appearances
Selected Performances: Lacey Spring Fun Fair, Tumwater Independence Day Parade, Oakville Parade, Lakefair Grand Twilight Parade, Fremont Summer Solstice Parade, Super Saturday, McLane elementary 125th Birthday, Lincoln Options Auction, GRUB Auction, Olympia Unitarian Universalist Auction, KAOS Spring and Fall Membership drive, Madison elementary assembly, Sherwood Forest Surprise Guest, Dance O’ Dance MC, Karaoke Oly music critic…
Clown Training:
History and Practice of Clowning – Catherine “Penny” McNeff
Clowning 101 – “Babs”, Lakewood Clown and Costume
Practical Physical Comedy, Working the Crowd, and Music Before the Routine – Kenny Ahern
Clown Character – Albert Alter
Prop Making For Dummies – Brenda Marshall
Discovering the Clown Within, and The Simple Fool as Performer/ Artivist – Dawn Stratton
Education, the Evergreen State College, 93 – 96
Bachelor of Arts, Emphasis in Media Production and Performance
Related Studies:
Dance: Butoh, Orissi Indian, Modern, Afro-Cuban Santeria, Jazz, Flamenco, Classical Balinese
Classical Voice Training
Fundamentals of Acting
Trapeze and Skinner Releasing,
Tai Chi Sword form, Indonesian Fan work and Tiger style
White Sash, Poekoelan Kung Fu
Foil Fencing
Employment:
Student Specific Paraeducator, Olympia School District (Olympia); 06 – the Present
Provided One-on-One Support for Student (s) with High Functioning Autism (Asperger’s) including Token Economy, Individual Accommodations, and Self-Monitoring Documentation
Instructor, Camp Invention (Olympia); 07
Taught Elementary School Age Students Basic Forensic Science and Deductive Reasoning
Classroom/ Bus Aide, Head Start/ ECEAP (Tumwater); 04 – 05
Generated and Distributed Parent Outreach Materials, Provided Support in an Active Environment, Contributed Written and Photographic Observations, Co-Designed and Developed Individual Learning Plans and Emergent Curriculum
Classified Substitute, ESD 113 & North Thurston School District; 03 – 06
Educational Assistance in Classroom, Library, Playground, or Detention
Edu-tainer, Mad Science (Lacey, WA); 04
Demonstrated and Led Science Experiments for Elementary School Programs & Birthdays
Academic Coach, 21st Century Community Learning Center (Hood Canal, WA); 03
Tutored Low Income and At-Risk Students during After-School Program
AmeriCorps*VISTA, Washington Reading Corps, Lacey Elementary (Lacey, WA); 01 -03
Coordinated Volunteers, Tutored Elementary Students in Reading Fluency and Comprehension, Planned Family Involvement and Volunteer Appreciation Events, Produced a Limited Edition Spoken Word CD including Students, Staff, and Governor Locke
Caregiver, Community Resources d.b.a. Wright Enterprises (Olympia, WA); 99 – 01
Registered Nursing Assistant, Provided In Home Nurse-Delegated Medicine and Care to Severely Disabled Adults
Production Assistant, TESC Electronic Media Department; 95 – 96
Video Peer Consultant, A/V Support for College Projects and Guest Performances
Professional Development
(Including but not limited to) ESL, Multiple Learning Styles, Student Management, Tutor training, Conflict Resolution, Team Building, Love & Logic, Compassionate Communication, Honoring Diversity, Brain Dance, Emotional Intelligence, Helping Students on the Autism Spectrum, Crisis Prevention Institute
Commercial:
WASTE MANAGEMENT – Extra, “Bicycle Messenger” Seattle, WA
TACO TIME – Extra, “Punked in Geneva’s” Seattle, WA
MTV, HIGH SCHOOL STORIES, Steilacoom, WA 2005 – Extra “Spanish Teacher”
Community Theatre:
PAGE TO STAGE – “Mock Twain” (Principle) 2003
THAT LOOK OF LOVE – Dancer
BIG SHOW CITY – MC 2003
APOCALYPTICS OF THE MILLENNIUM (d. Munio Makuuchi) – Butoh Dancer 1997
ABRAXAS (d. Arrington de Dionyso)- Butoh Dancer 1995
BOOMTOWN TRILOGY
THE SUNDOWNER (d. Mara West)- Clint Burke (Supporting) 1999
THE 802 (d. Sky Meyers)- Red Gunderson(Supporting)1999
THE CAMELLIA STREET HOUSE – Stage manager 1999
FRINGE FEST/ PISS TEST – Butoh Dancer 1999
FINGERTIPS & THIGHS – Dancer 1995
SGANARELLE (d. Kirk Haas)- Lelie (Supporting) 1992
AREN’T YOU HAPPY? (d. Dani Crocetti)- Dancer 1997
VISITATION – Masked Dancer 1997
BODIES OF WORK – Butoh Dancer 1997
PAIRADICE (d. Mara West)- Sal Amande(Supporting) 1997
NW BUTOH FESTIVAL – Butoh Dancer/ Videographer 1997
TELLING LIES, CHANGING NOTHING – Stone Cold Fission (Featured) 1997
CIRQUE O – Djinjinn/ Ridiculo 1996
THE HALFWAY DINER (d. Adrian Woods)- Yayo (Supporting) 1995
THE ODDESSY (d. Charlotte Tienken-Wooldridge) – Ensemble 1993
KAGAMI BUTOH (d. Doranne Crable) – Butoh Dancer/ Videographer 1994 – 1997
GAMELAN DEGUNG GIRIJAYA – Indonesian Orchestra Ensemble/ Video Liaison 1996
Video:
DANCE O’ DANCE (Public Access Series) – Producer, Director, Dancer 1997 – 2007
LOVE IS STUPID (d. Jenny Jenkins)- The Jerk (Featured)1997
FLIP OF A COIN (d. Chris Smith)- Wigg (Supporting) 1995
INFECTIOUS WASTE THEATRE – Co-producer, Director, Ensemble 1994 – 1996
Film:
THE TROPIC OF EMERALD (Emerald & Katena Films), Sukabumi Indonesia – Plantation Extra 1996
THE ROOM (d. Angela Jones)- I (Principle)1996
THE HONORABLE PSYCHE – Chester (Lead)1996
THE LIBRARY OF BABEL (d. John Kim)- Librarian (Principle)1996
Radio:
K.A.O.S. 89.3FM, Olympia, WA:
(((BACKATCHA!))) – Programmer & Host, Tuesdays at Noon 1999 – 2000
BREAKFAST SPECIAL – Programmer & Co-Host, Monday Mornings 1998
THE JAVA SAIL & ANCHOR SHOW – Programmer & Host, Saturday Nights 1997 – 1999
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