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Changing Room The Changing Room. Room for changing. A room that changes. We enter the transformed studio through a mock -up changing room (like in a department store, but fancier). Once through, We find costumes galore, an all-engulfing art installation, imaginative music for dancing, wacky new friends and dance toys. Everyone stars in this dance theater extravaganza! Here’s the deal: Changing Room is an ongoing series of dance celebrations, a chance for our expanding and overlapping tribes to come together to play and dance – and create! Each time the dance studio transforms into fantastic landscape. Step into the Changing Room, try on a few of the plentiful costumes, and see what happens. Changing Room is Community Created! That means you! We start with a motif and basic physical structure for creating the playscape and invite anyone who wants to create or offer something within that structure to do so. We even provide friends to help manifest your visions. You provide your imagination, props from your attic, working hands, perhaps an idea for an interactive offering at the dance. Whatever catches your fancy. You don't have to help out beforehand to come, but if you do you get in free. Sign up to help out! What's it like ?
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Call for Artists! Want to be a playscape design lead for a future Changing Room event? Small budget involved, with a little extra for you as thanks. OR See if you want to help out with the current Changing Room Contact Bruce |
Dust off that ART installation piece in the garage! Do you have potential props sitting around you'd like to put to use? You know, that crazy thing you made for your Solstice Parade float/burning man camp/Winter Feast/theatrical set. Masks, costumes, lanterns count! Show your stuff at Changing Room... Contact Bruce |
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Thing-a-ma-jigs
Items requested are for loan unless noted- we will happily and gratefully return them! |
Helping hands and skills
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The Changing Room guiding principles:
Changing Room entices us to relate to our environment sensually (with all 6 senses), This includes invoking the natural world; creating a sense of being contained in a physical space; stimulating touch with interactive, textural structures/objects; and encouraging social interaction (de-emphasizing the spoken word).
Changing Room supports the process of transformation. Costumes help us practice shifting roles and self concepts. Holding an intention to support change during the conception of the event and in the dance itself is important. Ritual, imagery, symbolic arrangement of space, and play contribute to the process.
Changing Room brings together the diverse community of dance, and forms bridges to neighboring tribes (FAC, Burning Man, perhaps theater folk and art crowd in general). I hope that these bridges can persist beyond the event itself.
Creating Changing Room forges new relationships in the process of its creation, and brings to its creators opportunities to work through the barriers to expression both as individuals and as community.
Changing Room endeavors towards sustainable practices, bringing old props back into circulation, raiding dumpsters, using found objects, finding new uses for things we already employ, recycling what we can't use anymore. Minimizing motorized transportation. Consider the full life cycle of what we use!
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Changing Room Nov 21st, 2009 Changing Room turns inward with the advent of Thanksgiving. We begin silently by walking through passageways, gratitude our siren song. Our contemplative journey will segue gently into the dance. As often happens with the power of gratitude, the walls will shift and blossom, or crystallize into new harmonious forms. Instead of costumes, this time robes and veils will support our transformations. Let us know you are attending: View evite Changing Room is a partner of the Fremont Arts Council check them out! |