Intro to Sustainable Theater
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In the Intro we'll be starting by having had everyone read Cradle to Cradle. We'll look at articles that students will be bringing in regarding their ideas of sustainability, start throwing out what it means to each of us, and why we are concerned with it. We'll all look at what makes performance, performance and how we can keep the essentials of the art while re-making the way we make it. We'll also reveal the final project, which will be to research and create a proposal for a sustainable change within the School's productions.
Sum Up
We shared our free associated ideas of sustainability. Here is the list of topics we touched on:
Sustainability
- Education
- Replenish, Reuse, Repurpose, Redesign, Recycle
- Respect
- Solar Electricity
- People in Power - Infrastructure
- Zero Sum - Sustainability as a circle - Closed system
- (Long-term) Health
- Economics
- Smart Cars
- Financial & Environmental
- American Culture - Theme Parks, Vegas, Marriage
- Scalability
- Sustainability of the Movement
- Local
- Old-Fashioned
- Ergonomics
- Generative
- Within Nature (against dominion)
In our next meeting we revisited our list of performance topics as well. Check out the discussion for students' full lists.
Performance
- Audience - for whom
- Community - for where - geo-specific
- Gathering
- Temporary Community
- Team Production
- Management Resources
- Meetings
- Contracts
- Ethereal (Create & Leave)
- Ephemeral
- Disposable
- Physical Things - New vs. old
- Collaboration - creative
- Convey Story... to accomplish?
- Longevity of Resource
- Storage - does it take stuff?
- Making Thing - (non)physical
- If we change what we use/do is the story different?
- process - what & how - discovery vs. invention - new vs. predetermined
- Energy - Effort, Creativity, Expression, to produce something
- Play - Entertainment, Fun, Capture Attention: Audience/Participant
- Art & Culture - Purpose Different from Commerce, reflection.
