postcards and another meeting?

POSTCARDS ARE HERE!
They are gorgeous and waiting to find new homes all around Baltimore!

Also, is everyone up for one last dance workshop next Wednesday night? 10pm-midnight? We could probably definitely knock out that last half of Seaside Rendezvous!

I'll bring the box of postcards to the meeting if anyone wants to take any!!

MEETING MINUTES YAY

AMAZING meeting ladies! I sent a video to all of you on facebook with me counting 8-beats over the first half of the song, including the full instrumental part.

Here's da minutes in case you forgot (OMG I JUST FOUND OUT HOW TO DO BULLETED LISTS ON BLOGGER):

1. SEASIDE RENDEZVOUS

• costume production: Elyza = bodysuits (four red, four navy, sparkly spandex), Sarah = flowery swim caps
• set? do we still want to do some cardboard waves? like two identical ones? do we need them?
• I sent to all of your facebooks a video I made of me counting 8-beats over the first half of the song, and I stopped it after the full instrumental part. The instrumental part goes for 10 eight counts. Mahla Pahkah- will you post your notes on the choreography?
• another workshop? could y'all post your availabilities for the next two weeks and we can see if we can work on the dance one more time?
• I honestly can not STOP practicing what we already have done!! I have probably done it over 30 times just this morning! It's so cute and so much fun and I'm SO PROUD OF US!!
  

2. TICKET TABLE

• Marissa or Rachel, you said you could do this yah? Info on it should probably just be something like "The GalHaus Revue presents: THE BIG SHOW! 8 PM, tickets $5"
• ask Nellie, Genya, and/or Maria if they would be willing to do it? Tickets go on sale at 4pm; show's at 8pm; we will also need 1-2 people at the doors to take/rip tickets. So maybe it will be good to have more than one or two people.

3. PROMOTION

• as soon as I get the files from Justin, I'll print out the posters (how many do you think we'll need? we can also always print more after break) and order postcards.
• PRESS RELEASE - Marla will write it up, deal with Events Office?
  

4. final write up on your act!!!

• This NEEDS to be done ASAP. Once you are done with finals, get it all down and post it up here. It's important not just so you know what you're doing and what you need to make /practice over the break, but also so that Annie will know what our acts our like and how she can segway between acts.
• What you need to write: SPECIFIC details of how the routine plays out; what your costume is, how they come off; any additional PROPS (and will they already be onstage?); post the youtube video of your song if possible; music cues (will you be on stage when the song starts? do you want the song to start and then you walk on?) any lighting cues (are you starting from black out? starting with all lights on? spot light? this information will also be necessary to pass on to the BBOX technicians).

Over break, PLEASE, it's important to keep up with the blog!! I'll do my best to send out e-mails if there's something SUPER important, but keep up with the blog and keep everyone updated on what you're up to over break. Post photos of your costume, any videos you might have of you practicing your routine. Find people to practice in front of (yikes) if you can, practice in front of the mirror, listen to the song over and over.

When we get back from break, you should be ready to practice, with your costume, with your music, in front of the group, and also other people. Seriously.

We will post up a rehearsal schedule once we find out the availability of the fitness center. But we DO have an already confirmed FULL DRESS REHEARSAL in the BBOX the night before, 1/29/2010, at 10 PM.

THIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING!!!

ELYZA!

Dance Workshop

Don't forget, we have a dance workshop this Sunday 12/6 from 8:00-10:00pm in the Fitness Center Studio in the Meyerhoff!

It was pretty steamy in there last time so dress for the occasion.

Please bring developed ideas for your routines, we have very few rehearsals after break and this is our LAST official meeting before finals and the holiday. Also, feel free to ask questions about costumes/prop construction.

trixie and monkey's visit

At the Trixie & Monkey talk, a couple things really stood out to me and I think would be useful for us as performers:

1. a "change" or arc in an act: Trixie was describing how in a lot of their acts they try to include a change from the beginning to the end. Example is her mermaid strip, where she starts out with a mermaid tail and ends up stripping off the tail and becoming a woman that can walk, or like her flea circus act where she is running a flea circus but in the process of losing her fleas, she has to remove all her clothes to find them. I think she made a good point with this since having an arc or a change or a story to the act makes it more dynamic and more interesting to watch.

2. thinking about AUDIENCE: Trixie & Monkey also talked about how they constantly think about the audience and how valuable performing in front of an audience of peers is. The way an audience reacts to different parts of the act can be extremely helpful in deciding what parts to play up, what parts to play down. We should probably schedule sometime in January when we're all back to have some of our own friends or some kind of small audience to a "preview" of sorts, which would basically be a dress rehearsal, just so we can get that kind of honest feedback Trixie and Monkey were talking about.

I had to leave the talk early though...any one else that was there, do you have anything else to add?

Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey at MICA

This email was forwarded to Marla, Elyza, and I from student activities a few hours ago. Hopefully some of you will randomly check this before 1:00!

Over the Thanksgiving Break a wonderful visiting artist
opportunity was organized for my Elements class, tomorrow the 30th,
M221 at 1:00PM.

Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey will be coming to my class to perform
and share about their performance work. They are burlesque circus performers
and famous in Baltimore -- often referred to as an Acrobatic Super Duo. In
our class they going to perform "Cirque,"
their parody on Cirque de Solei.

I want to invite members of the MICA Burlesque Troupe but do not have their
contact info.

As last minute as this is -- could you pass this info on to them.


Thanks,
Kirsten D'Andrea Hollander
443.386.6010

Videophone

...so, this is Beyonce in a Bettie Page weave (fast forward to 2:52)

Also, as much as I LOVE both Beyonce and Lady Gaga...seriously, why the fuck is this song about a video phone? The song kind of sucks. In my opinion, it's a wasted opportunity for a Gaga/Beyonce collaboration.

Ladies in Lingerie

The Victoria's Secret Fashion show is on December 1st. If anyone would like to come over to Meyerhoff 424 and watch it on our tiny television, you are more than welcome! We might even try to finagle a larger screen from a neighbor because this is IMPORTANT!