SweeDenTender- The Musical

A musical for the 22nd century

2010-10-19T04:57:00.000-07:00

A musical organized by Sweet and Tender Sweden

and made/performed by

Arvand Dashtaray

David Wampach

Marco Milic

Marianne Baillot

Pavlos Kountouriotis

Perrine Bailleux

Rani Nair

Sima Khatami

Valentina Desideri

musical scene

2010-07-12T05:30:00.000-07:00

debra paget, indian dancing, charming the snakes.

i felt its connected to the work im doing at the moment, and possibly to the musical idea too...

parts of a musical

2010-07-12T04:27:00.000-07:00

what are the different parts of a musical

introduction

love scene

fight

ballade

unison

ensamble

jump scene

happy

dancing

dancing in the street

what could be a theme for our musical

sweet and tender

musical

Musical idea

2010-06-03T03:58:00.000-07:00

> I would go for the impossible... the musical!
We can find a way of organizing the work so that it can be made in such a short time. We could even rehearse in this lab and open it to people to participate in. We have a music committee, a choreography one etc, or whatever other simple and manageable principle, and at least we really try something and we might even have a lot of fun..
Otherwise it is like a 'fragment of experience' or a platform of individual work, which is also possible...
But yeah, I vote for the musical!

>> If we were to go for the wild thing (the musical idea), I had a thought that each one of us finds a clip - from a musical scene, and learn the song and moves, before we come. Also we all learn same scene that we can do in ensemble.
So when we get together, we already have some materials to play with.
We can decide on the story line, and change lyrics or put them differently etc, and make it a something?

>>> hm! I have something even worse! Why don't we also make our own songs that we can teach and learn, so different topic and styles will appear in the show.
I am definitely for this. When I just imagine the process of combining all these songs in one presentation and finding a way to present them on stage I get shivers down my spine. Feel like activism again :)

>>>> The musical seems to be a nice idea! We could define roles? One is in charge of the costumes, one is in charge of the warming-up; one is directing the things, one is choreographing? Yes, let's talk soon.

A manifesto for a Creative Blogging Experience

2010-05-20T04:46:00.000-07:00

Some people like it, some people hate it. It might be a great inspiration or a nuisance, be free to take any info you like.

Blog about 1. Obersvation Reflection Discussion Evaluation Recommendation (ORDER)
2. Automatic writing
3. Allow your thought to develop while writing or allow your writing to take you into paths you hadn’t thought before
4. Your own difficulties, discoveries, reflections
5. Don’t be critical for the sake of being critical
6. Situate everything in/about/concerning yourself, nothing about the other person’s difficulties, weaknesses. What did you get?
7. Keep it interesting, find ways to make it interesting to be read
8. Show your inspirations by other people (choreographer, dancers, books, artists etc)
9. How do you process the feedback given
10. Explain the/ your methodology? What is the/your strategy?

11. Why did you get interested, bored, angry, sad, excited? What does that say about you?
12. How does writing influence your participation?
13. Where do you find inspiration? What are your references? Can you be transparent or you prefer to hide it? Why did I do like that? Who/what influenced me?
14. Is writing enough to help you find your way for tomorrow? What did you decide? How do you need to work ? What did you learn from today or how do you want to approach your work differently tomorrow in order to solve any problems?
15. What is the limit of writing? What do I write and what not? Can I write everything? If yes, how do I write everything? If not why not? If yes is that enough? If not, why not more? Is enough really enough? Can you do more than enough? Can you force yourself? What happens other than being angry, tired or bored? Can you discover creativity through excess ?
16. What happened today? What experiments/games/exercises did we do? What did I do? What was my commitment into it?
17. How did I feel? Why did I feel like that?
18. How can I correct myself tomorrow? What is that I need to take with me tomorrow?
19. Am I defensive while writing ? Why then write this blog down? Why expose myself and be defensive? Isn’t it that by writing I allow myself to be vulnerable? Am I strong enough to be vulnerable? Do I have the guts to feel secure as to allow transparency? Why does that affect me? Can I expose myself without judgment or emotion ?
20. Why is a rainbow more interesting to watch/talk about than a bin full of garbage? How can I just see the garbage but concentrate on the rainbow? Do I need the rainbow? What if I don’t only see the garbage but remember that it was me who threw the litter in there?
21. Can I be glorious, spectacular and intimate while writing?
22. Who am I when I am writing? Is it me or is it me watching me? Or is it someone watching me? Or is it me watching someone else being me?
23. Can I be generous, grateful and munificent? Why is it difficult being generous, grateful and munificent?
24. Why being simply critical is not enough? What is more than being critical? Who is more and why ? Can I be more? Why do we write this blog?
25. Why do I write this blog? Where do I focus: on the negatives or the positives? Why ? What is easier to do good, focusing on the negatives or discovering what the positive elements are/could be?

My main preoccupation with blogging is the fact that it is a very heavy burden that even I found moments where I hated it, helpful though it might be. My question then is How do I keep the passion in me burning? How do I keep myself a devoted writer ? How is writing more important for me than anything else?

An Invitation

2010-05-20T04:41:00.000-07:00

Dear SweeDenTender - The Musical, Marko, David, Vale, Sima, Marianne, Perrine, Arvand and ofcourse Rani :)

I hope you are all doing great. With Rani we have been discussing that we should create a blog in order to start working on the preparation of our fantastic melodrama.

I have invited you all to become authors on the blog.

1) Please accept invitations.

2) Although blogspot is quite straightforward, in case you are not familiar with how to edit new posts on blog, ask me and I can always help you.

3)You can also add up your own links on the site of the webpage.

4) VERY important is that you ALSO become a follower of the blog. (Go to the left upper corner and click follow. This way you will be getting an email when someone posts something (easy as that)

So how is this blog to be used?

And how should we proceed now? Well I don't think there is any specific defined way for the time being.

I would suggest we decide the structure we want to organize our work. Maybe we say that within the next weeks (let's say end of June) we can find a lose scenario and then decide the division of work into parts (music, choreography, costumes, setting etc).

So then the blog should be used for posting:

- influences, inspirations, aspirations, dreams (photos, videos, texts or music)

- lyrics/ script ideas

- try outs of songs/choreographies/scenographies

- exchange of feedback

The most important we have been discussing with Rani is the idea to have everything documented. So I am already uploading this email on the blog. In order to make sure a smooth uploading of information, please let's keep as proactive as possible.

Hope you are all doing well.

Kisses