What happaned in Oregon?

Boy I seriously pooped out on blogging my trip to Oregon. Mostly because I was working the whole time and didn't have a whole lot of tangible activity to report. Here's our beautifully sunlit room in which we spent most of day 2 & 3. There were many beautiful meals, because Emilya always makes sure that we are extremely well fed...
And there were several shows we caught at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the highlight of which was Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, which Juan was in. I'd forgotten how great Miller is, and was surprised at how Shakespearean in tragedy this play is

Theatrical collaboration, especially with people who you don't know very well, and with different backgrounds can be extremely challenging... ESPECIALLY when there is no designation of each person's role in the process and no hierarchy of decision-making in place. I feel fortunate that the two people I'm working with on the U.S. team of Ifdentity are very intelligent, imaginative, reasonable, resourceful and, basically, game.

I regret that we may have spent too much of our time talking about ideas and structures, and not enough time on our feet, figuring out the details of arc and what actually works (and doesn't work). Although we came out of the weekend (and are going into our trip to Spain next week) without a definite structure to our "piece", we do have strong scene-ideas and elements.

A bit I particularly liked was a sequence we made with the 10 yards of ivory muslin. The fabric is light and sturdy enough that we can mask our faces with it, drag each other across the floor on it, wrap ourselves and each other in it.

And then there were these masks...