Projection Mapping

Projection Mapping used by Anarchy Dance Theatre

From lighting and scenic designer (Spring) Tina Barrigan

Resilience: Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress — such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors. It means "bouncing back" from difficult experiences. (http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/road-resilience.aspx)

 

I have been participating in some “Resilience training” the Army Reserves is offering my husband as part of his training schedule and I am continually struck by how important some of the ideas are.  This seems to really touch on what “Plan b” wants to explore. How to we “hunt the good stuff”? How do we resist “catastrophizing” situations? How do we mentally center ourselves to come back strong? 

Some interesting reading regarding resilience: 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/resilience

 

Also, regarding plastic bottles:  the top photo is a drop constructed of plastic bottles.  I saw Xochitl Gonzalez speak about this dance piece last spring. This is amazing and beautiful.  http://decanteddesign.com/2013/11/26/xochitl-gonzalez-quintanilla-won-best-lighting-design-award-at-world-stage-design-2013-cardiff-for-her-work-on-ex-stasis-staged-at-placia-de-bellas-artes-mexico-see-blogroll-for-a-link-to-her-bl/

Door Number 1

There's this:
"Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?"  [Stick with Plan A, or go to Plan B?]

Television Show: "Let's Make a Deal" circa 1960's

According to Wikipedia: 
"The problem was originally posed in a letter bySteve Selvin to the American Statistician in 1975 (Selvin 1975a), (Selvin 1975b). It became famous as a question from a reader's letter quoted in Marilyn vos Savant's "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade magazine in 1990 (vos Savant 1990a): Vos Savant's response was that the contestant should switch to the other door (vos Savant 1990a). Under the standard assumptions, contestants who switch have a 2/3 chance of winning the car, while contestants who stick to their choice have only a 1/3 chance.

Many readers of vos Savant's column refused to believe switching is beneficial despite her explanation. After the problem appeared in Parade, approximately 10,000 readers, including nearly 1,000 with PhDs, wrote to the magazine, most of them claiming vos Savant was wrong (Tierney 1991). The problem is a paradox of the veridical type, because the correct result (you should switch doors) is so counterintuitive it can seem absurd, but is nevertheless demonstrably true. 

Here's the math:

Here's my image in movement: 

Three doors (moveable, on wheels, spun around by dancers) Other dancers manipulate the reveal of a toy car and two toy goats attached to doors labelled 1, 2 and 3. 

A very rapid series of spinning doors 1,2,3 match the above chart at a dizzying speed. 

PLAN B: mY musings

Plan B:  Do you even have a Plan A?  Are you a Plan A with a Plan B type of person?  Do you spontaneously improvise your Plan B when Plan A doesn't pan out? My Plan B is a philosophy, "If it doesn't work out, it wasn't meant to be."  (B?)
Umbrellas, parachutes, an extra pair of socks, my aunt's warning: "Make sure you wear nice underwear at all times, just in case you are in an accident."
Plan B - out of your control.  The plight of the Syrian refugees.  Of all people living a normal life and a government makes that normal life impossible, the only choice to flee.
Plan B- out of your control.  Being young, male and black in America.
Plan B- The environment, "We have no Plan B."  Is it too late?
Plan B - The Italian Prime Minister re: the refugee situation, "We have a Plan B."
Plan B - The birth control pill.  Is it aptly named?

The scouts motto, "Be Prepared"

A story from this summer (Ebony, Taylor and Sophiyaa explored this with me for a performance at Skwirlhaus in Atlanta) Iraqi cellist, in response to the bombings.  He shows up at a bombing site and plays his cello. As a way to hold onto "Beauty, civility and compassion." This to me feels like a Plan B response.

Image from Maddy, As hundreds of plastic bottles are released from the overhead, one person who has "been prepared" with an umbrella all the time, opens it.

Image: a costume that is made of hundreds of plastic bottles, with a long train of plastic bottles.  A person wears this costume around campus.  Anonymous.  For the months preceding the show, and somewhere in the performance they appear, enter the space.  Something happens.


I would like the arc of the show to be from sweet, warm, and funny with our own "Plan B" stories, then go into some harder "Plan B" stories, and then...?

For those who want to come think about Plan B with me - this Friday. 5PM. My house. Pizza and Plan B.

Welcome Dance Ensemble/ACTivate Fall 2015

We have begun!  Dynamic week one - we started with a complex "Described Movement" phrase, and then on Thursday had the great pleasure of having Jeremy, from Kyle Abraham dance company teach a master class for us.  What a way to begin.
Our topic this year: Plan B.  That is a little nebulous at this point but together we will explore ideas and see what evolves.