The DbD Experience: Chance Knows What it's

First, pick up a copy of Rachel Rosenthal's inspiring The DbD Experience; Part manual, part manifesto, part memoir, then head for Los Angelesâ€¦ FRIDAY - Origins Arrive at the Doing by Doing workshop to be greeted by Rosenthal, pioneering theatre explorer and your host for the weekend ahead. Explore non-human ways of living and moving. Begin to develop a shared vocabulary with your fellow students through exercises. SATURDAY - Connections Continue to connect with the group on an energetic level. Make the journey from Kansas to OZ. Collaborate and create as a group, moving and vocalising without language. Improvise boldly at every step. Treat music, voice, lighting, costume, sets, props and fellow performers as equals. SUNDAY - Power Learn to arrive in the moment when you are needed. Engage with transformative processes and take part in the Star Meditation. Understand your own individual power, joining your physical and emotional self. Perform solo improvisations and the Rambler the final, extended culmination of everything that you have learned through the 34 hour experience.

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
What is Doing by Doing?	p. 22
Improvisational performance and its relationship to life	p. 25
Writing the DbD book	p. 30
More about DbD	p. 30
Letters	p. 32
Our Letter	p. 32
Friday: ôOriginsö	p. 35
Opening Circle	p. 35
Slaves of Love	p. 36
Rules	p. 37
Just Do It!	p. 40
The Genie	p. 40
Circle Talk: ôOriginsö	p. 40
Techniques	p. 42
The Triangle and No-FocusFocus	p. 42
Guided Standing and Moving Meditation	p. 44
Seed to Tree	p. 46
Paired-Off Processes	p. 47
Ball of Fire	p. 47
Mirrors	p. 50
Shadows	p. 50
Puppets	p. 50
Dolls	p. 51
Dolls at a Distance	p. 51
Power at a Distance Dance	p. 53
Power at a Distance in Improvisation	p. 53
Demonstrations	p. 54
Forms	p. 57
Units	p. 57
Levels	p. 58
Units and Levels	p. 59
Feedback	p. 60
Group Improvisations	p. 60
With theme: ôThe Mayan Temple and the Jungleö	p. 60
Without theme: ôBIOYAö	p. 63
Entrances and Exits	p. 64
Music	p. 64
The Density/Duration Ratio	p. 65
Assignment	p. 65
Assessment of Friday	p. 66
Saturday: ôConnectionsö	p. 67
Circle talk: ôConnectionsö	p. 67
Dogs	p. 70
Nature and Us	p. 71
The Blob	p. 73
The Blob instructions	p. 74
Connections Dance	p. 75
Technicals	p. 77
Lights	p. 77
Props and Costumes	p. 78
Voice	p. 79
Posture	p. 79
Head Roll	p. 80
Breath	p. 81
Vocal Chord Vibration (ôPurringö)	p. 81
Vibration Into Sound	p. 82
Voice Placement	p. 82
Voice Circle	p. 83
Additional Voice Exercises	p. 85
Unison	p. 85
Duets	p. 85
Duets with Movement	p. 86
Combos	p. 86
Solos with Combos	p. 88
Assignment	p. 89
Two Simultaneous Solos on an Earth Theme	p. 89
ôEyes Out!ö	p. 89
Techniques	p. 94
Single Images	p. 94
Double Images	p. 95
BIOYA Redux	p. 95
Object Exercise: ôOne Person, One Object, One Emotionö	p. 96
BIOYA again	p. 100
Sunday: ôPowerö	p. 101
Circle Talk: ôPowerô	p. 101
Star Meditation	p. 104
Power Movement	p. 107
Climbing The Mountain	p. 107
Processes and Forms	p. 113
Life Story Solos: ôThe Story of Your Life In Three Minutesö	p. 113
Hidden Aspect Solos	p. 113
Brief Encounters	p. 113
Thaïs	p. 114
Rambler	p. 115
Final Circle	p. 115
The Dibidi Story	p. 116
Addenda: Post-DbD Letters	p. 122
Postscript, June 2009	p. 130
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