First rehearsal after break, and 8bb is in fine form:
“Can we go from letter B?”
“If we must, but only if we play it really Voluptuously, as Kati has marked.”
“Just think of Salma Hayek.”
“Actually, I already was.”
“But letter B is only marked forte, so shouldn’t it be less “voluptuous”?”
“So we should think ‘Cameron Diaz’?”
“Or maybe ‘Scarlett Johansson’?”
“No! We have to save Scarlett for the triple forte at C!!”
This exchange took place during a rehearsal of Kati Agocs’s fantastic work from last year, Immutable Dreams. Apart from the Voluptuous marking, Kati has also asked for: Delicate and visceral, with a “sustained feeling”; Dirty; With limpid elegance.
2008-09 will certainly be action-packed (one old and one new program, a huge new multi-media project, Ojai Festival, trips to Europe and Australia…), so look forward to another year of blog entries that are, well, if not sublime then at least ridiculous.
It’s good to be back in the unreal world of 8bb.
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