BREAKFAST NOTES

"I've done a lot of things for a ring [rim] job." ~M.M.

READING LIST (I've added the stuff from the ritual/theatre class, so it's listed):
-No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
-The Hero with One Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
-"Tu es le fils de quelqu'un" by Jerzy Grotowski
-The Complete Rilke
-Dubliners by James Joyce
-To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
-"A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf
-Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
-The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade, Chapters 1&2
-Theatre and the Sacred by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Prologue: Electra's transgressions & Chapter 1
-"Bodily Knowing, Ritual Embodiment, and Experimental Drama: From Regression to Transgression" by Bjorn Krondorfer, p. 1-12

MUSIC:
-looking at writers and reactions to war,
-American hymnody and European folk music?
-Over break, Asa wills tart to look at music in the bay area, perhaps Hildegard songs
-Mark will look at incorruptibles and mystics while at work
-Whatever we pick, it must be ours, not necessarily temporally/spatially "appropriate"
-Ukranian songs sung by women in the 1700's
-were a reaction to when Russians came, the songs were about war, about political violence
-polyphonic singing

TO DO:
-Read
-Listen to Asa's CD
-look at images
-Think about: 3-4 songs that we will earn and be able to sing together (Ukranian, Georgian, perhaps?)
-THREE-WAY [phone calls]

SAVE THE DATE:
-Farm in the Cave comes to Yale: March 31 & April 1, workshops; April 3-5 performances/symposiums
-Ghost Vaudevillians on the Summerland Circuit: April 3, 4, 5
-Big Love: April 10, 11, 12

Love love love,
GB