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Imagine/Generate
Tory, Mary & Merle talk about a project to be performed at Pope Art in Terrace MN. -
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Only The Land Shall Remain
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Plan/Prepare
Tory talks with Craig Farmer about a VIsual Art component and Shannon Hannigan about poetry and contacting Will Weaver. Discussions with Janika about original music, and Social Studies teacher Bob Frey. -
Plan/Prepare 2
Shannon, Craig, Tory, Janika, Mary share family farm & rural stories with students first while gathering of all 80 students in same location. -
Visual Art & historical context
Visual Arts Instructor Craig Farmer works with students on Visual Art aspects of "Gravestones Made of Wheat". -
Music and Literary Explore/Focus
Janika Vandervelde's Songwriting class r& Literary Ars Jr's read "Gravestone of Wheat" with Literary Arts instructor Shannon Hannigan. Multiple discussions and wrting assignments ensue. -
Theater--Explore/Incubate--Source-Work
individual arts area- theater uses Anne Bogarts source-work and composition-work to create pieces based on themes of Death, Work, Water, Morning, and Children. -
Theater and Dance Explore/Focus
Theater and Dance students read "Gravestone Made of Wheat" with Literary Arts Instructor Shannon Hannigan. Writing Assignments ensue. -
Explore-Incubate
Tory and Mary make two visits to Oliver Kelley and phone prep- another state agency -
Present/Peform/Refine
Music and Literary Arts students present their songs and poetry in a coffeehouse fashion in PCAE's glassbox. -
Dance Explore/Incubate
Dancers improvised on concepts of love/loss, view several site specific works (Bill T. Break, Fenestrations, Frozen Grand Central,Stephin Koplowitz) discuss landscape and historical time. DAncers chose original music and create 5 dances. Mary creates "Haunted House" with Eli Bentley and theater Students.Students choreographed Partner, Dancers orderProloguePartnerWorkHouseLoveWindHaunted House -
Explore/Incubate
Tory travels to Terrace to meet with Merle and videotape/photograph the space and environment. -
Refine/Evaluate
theater and dance came together, looked at everything, established a show order, started stealing/refining from each others work to create a holistic and unified performance. -
Refining
Refining You suggested, Maggie solo before funeral, you added dancers in 2 scenes 9 funeral, wedding monologue, theater replicated movement in the work scene, dance added gesture to partner danceReceived and Selected poetry from Literary Arts. Focused on work that had least contemporary references. Chose selections that had universal time and closely related themes to "Gravestone Made of Wheat".Added after -
Present/Perform
Travel 150 miles to Terrace, MN and arrive around 11:00 a.m., allow kids to aclimate to surrounding and begin dress and spacing rehearsal at 2:00 p.m. Finish about 5:00 p.m. to allow students opportunity to eat and ready themselves for the evening. -
Present/Peform
Perform at 12:00 p.m. (NOON) in Terrace, MN on the open field. 12 had many farm references for us and the time was specifically selected to re-enforce those references. -
Spring Dance Concert
May 19-21 Dancers and Theater students perform the Dance pieces in the spring concert. -
Reflect/Refine
Periodically dancers, Musicians, Literary and Theater students come together to run and refine the performance for Oliver Kelley Farm. -
Present/Perform
MN OriginalPerform "Haunted House", "Water", and "Love" for TPT2's MN Original a weekly celebration of Minnesota artists, working in all disciplines, across all cultures. MN Original inspires viewers to think about the arts in new ways, increases visibility of Minnesota artists and arts venues and cultivates new audiences by promoting a deeper understanding of the creative process. MN Original provides educators valuable resources and documents the work of Minnesota’s creative community. -
Perform
Perform at 6:30 p.m. at Oliver Kelley Farm in Elk River, MN
