November 29, 2006Videos of Funny Uncles RehearsalsHere are two videos from last week's on-going rehearsals of Funny Uncles: Watch first rehearsal video from last week (Windows Media format) Watch second rehearsal video from last week (Windows Media format) Just a reminder. "Gumdrops and the Funny Uncle" will be performed Saturday, December 2nd at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage at 6:00 PM. Performance is free!! View Millennium Stage upcoming performance schedule. Posted by at 10:58 AM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) November 28, 2006Ashley Searles Audio InterviewDuring Funny Uncles rehearsals the weekend before Thanksgiving, I interviewed dancer Ashley Searles. Click this link to listen to audio podcast (MP3 format) Ashley discusses her involvement in Funny Uncles, the last couple days of rehearsals and her background as a dancer. Posted by at 11:00 AM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) November 20, 2006Photos from Weekend RehearsalHere are some pictures I took of Funny Uncles rehearsals this past Saturday afternoon.
Posted by at 10:09 AM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) November 16, 2006Rehearsal Video "Chris and Ben Duet" with artistic Director CommentaryThere are two additional video clips that you can watch below from Funny Uncles rehearsals. They are both titled "Chris and Ben Duet of Cassie and Chris Movement." In the first video clip you can watch this section of the rehearsals with music. Then, in the second clip, you can listen to commentary by Peter DiMuro as you watch the movement once again. Watch "Chris and Ben Duet" with music (Windows Media format) Watch "Chris and Ben Duet" with audio commentary (Windows Media format) You can listen to an audio podcast in which Peter DiMuro discusses the overall approach to this movement generation phase of the rehearsals. Posted by at 1:45 PM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) November 13, 2006Rehearsal Video "Cassie and Chris Overlap" with artistic Director CommentaryThere are two additional video clips that you can watch below from Funny Uncles rehearsals. They are both titled "Cassie and Chris Overlap." In the first video clip you can watch this section of the rehearsals with music. Then, in the second clip, you can listen to commentary by Peter DiMuro as you watch the movement once again. Watch "Cassie and Chris Overlap" with music (Windows Media format) Watch "Cassie and Chris Overlap" with audio commentary (Windows Media format) You can listen to an audio podcast in which Peter DiMuro discusses the overall approach to this movement generation phase of the rehearsals. Posted by at 11:32 AM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) November 9, 2006Flyer for Baltimore PerformanceThere will be a performance of "Gumdrops and the Funny Uncle" at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson in Baltimore, MD on December 15 and 16, 2006. The performance starts at 7:00 PM and an optional workshop starts at 5:45 PM. Tickets are now available for purchase. "Gumdrops and the Funny Uncle" is a kid-friendly performance about celebrating our families - chosen, alternative, gay, straight, adoptive, emerging - in the true spirit of the holidays.  Posted by at 10:05 AM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) November 8, 2006Funny Uncles Blog Officially LaunchesWelcome to the Funny Uncles Blog! Today is our official launch. We invite you to learn about Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's upcoming performances of "Funny Uncles" through our recent blogs posts. You'll find pictures and videos as well as audio interviews from recent rehearsals and we'll soon be adding more multimedia content from Artistic Director Peter DiMuro and participating dancers. In my Great Dance blog today I wrote an extended post about the launch of this Funny Uncles blog. We invite you to share your thoughts and feedback. Posted by at 2:18 PM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) November 1, 2006Rehearsal Video "Trio Duet Overlay" with Artistic Director's CommentaryWith this post, we're beginning to upload video clips from Funny Uncles rehearsals. To learn more about this generative phase where the movement vocabulary is developed for this piece, you can listen to an audio podcast in which Artistic Director Peter DiMuro discusses this topic and provides a framework for understanding these videos. There are two video clips that you can watch below. They are both titled "Trio Duet Overlay." In the first video clip you can watch this section of the rehearsals with music. Then, in the second clip, you can listen to commentary by Peter as you watch the movement once again. Watch "Trio Duet Overlay" with music (Windows Media format) Watch "Trio Duet Overlay" with audio commentary (Windows Media format) Posted by at 2:07 PM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Our Approach to Movement Generation and Upcoming VideosWe're about to share videos from recent rehearsals and I wanted to set some context for this whole gallery of clips we'll be posting to our blog. What you are about to see are the beginnings of our exploration, the generative period, in creating enough movement material, thought material and text material to find out what the language is of this piece - the movement vocabulary. You can listen to following audio podcast to learn more about this generative process and also continue reading below: Click this link to listen to audio podcast (MP3 format) So none of the upcoming clips have been crafted more than through improvisations. And some of clips are total experiments to find ways to the next level and are not intended for performance. Having said that, I love the rare surprise that comes through when you start improvising and you try to capture that again for performance because it is spot on. To learn more about this process, you can visit the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Toolbox, which is based on our exploration, over 30 year period, of how to generate movement. 
As we continue to develop Funny Uncles, we'll start to craft these disparate experiments into a full work. But for now, you're about to see some of these experimentations which I find very interesting and fascinating, which I hope you do too. Posted by Peter Dimuro at 1:41 PM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (2) Contribute Your Stories to Funny UnclesI wanted to talk about why you might be interested in contributing written word, recorded word, images and videos to this blog. There's a real necessity for other voices to be heard in this work that address the themes of this piece that revolve around what is a normal family and who is normal in any family. In upcoming posts, Doug and I will write about the specifics of how you can contribute your stories and movements to this website. Click this link to listen to audio podcast (MP3 format) Posted by Peter Dimuro at 1:28 PM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Audio Introduction from Peter DiMuro, Artistic Director of "Funny Uncles"I wanted to introduce myself and this "Funny Uncles" project My name is Peter DiMuro and I'm the producing artistic director of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and I'm the artistic director of a new work that the company is creating called "Funny Uncles." You can click on the following audio link in which I offer background about the origins of Funny Uncles and the themes we will be exploring in our upcoming performances. Click this link to listen to audio podcast (MP3 format) Posted by Peter Dimuro at 9:22 AM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) |
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