Tribe.net. Local Connections Uti http://faeplayback.tribe.net/thread/a1411398-2a0d-4e4b-b091-f0f68b781807 2006-11-29T20:35:00Z 2006-11-29T20:35:00Z

<div>Live at the BRAVA! Vanessa Hidary's "CULTURE BANDIT" <br/> <br/>VANESSA HIDARY’S “CULTURE BANDIT” <br/>Sunday, December 10 @ 7pm <br/>THE BRAVA THEATER, 2781 24th Street, SF <br/> <br/>ONE NIGHT ONLY! <br/>BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW! <br/>Tickets: $19.75 <br/>http://www.brava.org/Pages/CurrentPro.html#vanessa or box office @ 415.647.2822 <br/> <br/>“Hilarious! ... Vanessa Hidary seamlessly blends the multicultural hip-hop of her New York youth with her strong Sephardic/ Mizrahi heritage in a cutting-edge, spoken-word show.” <br/> <br/>Inspired by her experiences as a Sephardic/Mizrahi Jew with close friends from different ethnic and religious backgrounds, actress/poet/playwright/native New Yorker Vanessa Hidary wrote "Culture Bandit," a solo show that chronicles her coming of age during the golden age of Hip-Hop and her dedication to fostering understanding and friendship between all people. <br/> <br/>Vanessa is a member of the troupe “Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad,” and is featured on HBO’s Def Poetry and in the film “The Tribe” which has been selected for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. <br/> <br/>More information: http://www.jewishresearch.org/events/culturebandit.pdf <br/>www.hebrewmamita.com <br/> <br/>“I’m The Hebrew Mamita, long lost daughter of Abraham and Sarah The sexy, Oy Veying, Chutzba having, non-cheaping, non conspiracizing, always questioning, hip-hop listening, Torah scroll reading, All people loving, pride filled- Jewish Girl! Bigging up all people who are a little miffed, cause someone tells you don’t look like, or act like your people. Impossible. Cause you are your people. You just tell them they don’t look. PERIOD!” – Vanessa Hidary, The Hebrew Mamita </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://faeplayback.tribe.net">Faerie Playback Theatre</a> - 0 replies </div>

Uti 2006-11-29T20:35:00Z ShadowWeaver http://faeplayback.tribe.net/thread/e745125e-eb4f-48c9-a099-7bd90b7b7f65 2006-03-09T23:55:21Z 2006-03-08T09:01:02Z

<div>Hey there, <br/> <br/>Any playback theatre faeries want to perform at Faerie Village during san francisco pride this year? There is still alot of room for performers on our stage. <br/> <br/>Shadow Weaver <br/>FFV Producer <br/> <br/>http://faerievillage.tribe.net/</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://faeplayback.tribe.net">Faerie Playback Theatre</a> - 1 reply </div>

ShadowWeaver 2006-03-08T09:01:02Z Mountaine http://faeplayback.tribe.net/thread/0fca8134-d163-4ec7-9636-6b772a2eb959 2006-01-13T21:02:28Z 2005-12-14T22:42:31Z

<div>Hiya. Those of you who worked with me in early March in San Francisco may remember that John Oleson approached me after the show to ask if radical faerie playback would perform at the 64th Annual ASGPP (Psychodrama) Conference in San Francisco April 27th through May 1st, 2006. I tried to reach John soon after we met, but didn't hear back from him until now. He is inviting us to give a radical faerie playback performance at the conference on Saturday afternoon April 29th. <br/> <br/>The conference is being planned now, and we need to decide. Yes, it's Beltaine eve eve. If enough of us want to do this, we could give Friday April 28th to an intensive practice session (required to perform in the show, I think), do the Saturday show, and then get our butts up to Wolf Creek in time for Beltaine eve festivities. We just need enough people (at least 6) to commit now to doing this, when it's over 4 months away. If enough of you want to, I'll do it with ya. <br/> <br/>There will be LOTS of playback at this conference, including a Sunday morning performance by Bay Area Playback (with nothing else scheduled at the same time) and a Thursday evening performance by Living Arts Theatre Ensemble (with nothing else scheduled at the same time). Saturday morning there will be a keynote address given to the entire conference by Jonathan Fox, the founder of playback (and a brilliant mentor for all playbackers) for the entire conference, followed by a workshop with Jonathan (which we presumably could attend) in a time slot with 13 other workshops offered, then lunch, and then we'd give an after-lunch performance. There would be 8 other workshops at the same time, so a good attendance at our show would not be guaranteed. But we'd be noticed big time in the playback and psychodrama worlds for being there, and some people would choose our event over other workshop offerings. <br/> <br/>I must say it's a very exciting opportunity - for any of you who are serious about playback, the Saturday morning address and workshop with Jonathan would be enough reason to attend. <br/> <br/>Please respond to this tribe, or email me directly at mjonas@madison.main.nc.us with your thoughts. <br/> <br/>Hugs without Slugs, <br/>Mountaine</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://faeplayback.tribe.net">Faerie Playback Theatre</a> - 2 replies </div>

Mountaine 2005-12-14T22:42:31Z Mountaine http://faeplayback.tribe.net/thread/3d477d95-172a-451b-82fa-6376fd649eb8 2005-10-17T16:18:48Z 2005-06-21T18:39:41Z

<div>I am now scheduled (airticketed) to go to Zuni Shamans Gathering (8/26 - 9/4), so I'll be offering workshops in faerie playback theatre there. Also 90% sure I'll do it at Destiny (Vermont) Lammas Gathering (7/29 - 8/7) and Short Mountain Fall Gathering (9/30 - 10/9). Looking to seed lots of faerie playback. <br/> <br/>Personally, my work has improved lots as a result of the recent Stoneleaf Theatre Festival in Asheville, where I took a 4-morning class in movement (expanding my ability to invest meaning in character work) and where I was part of 5 Asheville Playback Theatre shows - acting in 3 and conducting 1. I've gone some new and amazing places emotionally with this work - didn't think I'd ever be capable of true crying/sobbing onstage, but now it's happened and I know I can do it! <br/> <br/>Next week I'm taking a 5-day conducting class with Jonathan Fox, founder of playback. Gonna be even more READY TO SHARE with y'all. Lots of teeheehee, Mountaine</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://faeplayback.tribe.net">Faerie Playback Theatre</a> - 11 replies </div>

Mountaine 2005-06-21T18:39:41Z Mountaine http://faeplayback.tribe.net/thread/5c4fc4f6-088e-455d-a096-e4223c4236e7 2005-09-09T15:51:04Z 2005-09-09T15:51:04Z

<div>At some of our practices last week at Zuni, I read paragraphs of an article on playback as a spiritual practice. Here's a link to the entire article, as promised: <br/> <br/>http://www.playbacknet.org/interplay/journal/alex.html <br/> <br/>AND I'm planning to go to a playback retreat Sept 30 - Oct 2 on my way to Short Mountain (yes, a detour from Asheville, but worth it). Check it out at <br/> <br/>http://www.playbackschool.org/appel_farm_gathering.htm <br/> <br/>mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmountaine <br/>who is ever-increasingly open to discovering, giving and receiving true intimacy !</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://faeplayback.tribe.net">Faerie Playback Theatre</a> - 0 replies </div>

Mountaine 2005-09-09T15:51:04Z Michael-Abram-zero http://faeplayback.tribe.net/thread/2b6b6a93-a2dd-4714-9805-f90f7115ffa0 2005-09-06T05:32:22Z 2005-09-06T05:32:22Z

<div>i can only commit to being involved in this process until samhain (as i have little to no clue what is to follow nor where i'll be), but bitches i'm down! <br/> <br/>mz syn has prosposed the possibility of having a portland weeknd playback intensive and has asked for possible dates, wondering who's interested, venues, etc.... <br/> <br/>feedback from portland faes is requested at this point. is there interest? <br/> <br/>let's use this forum to dialogue...gan ganesha...om <br/> <br/>bliss, <br/>-e</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://faeplayback.tribe.net">Faerie Playback Theatre</a> - 0 replies </div>

Michael-Abram-zero 2005-09-06T05:32:22Z Mountaine http://faeplayback.tribe.net/thread/6efe1655-6c03-4fc4-b9fe-1498db3e8360 2005-06-22T00:46:50Z 2005-05-11T16:31:10Z

<div>This is gonna be the community column. If anyone remembers the name of the photographer at Zuni last summer, please let me know, so I can provide acknowledgment of his photos. And if anything is terribly wrong, let me know and maybe I can still get it changed. <br/> <br/>------------------------------------------------------------------- <br/> <br/>RADICAL FAERIE PLAYBACK THEATRE <br/>HAS ARRIVED <br/> <br/>By Mountaine <br/> <br/>Thirty years ago, two visionaries schooled in the power of psychodrama came up with a revolutionary idea. Jonathan Fox and his wife Jo Salas discovered that the theatre created in drama therapy could be as entertaining as well-performed scripted plays. They gathered a group of colleagues, developed a few flexible forms of improvisation, and began to create theatre from true stories that were provided spontaneously by people in their audiences. Jo and Jonathan could not have imagined the results they would achieve. <br/> <br/>Thirty years later, there are about 200 playback troupes active in 30 countries. Their styles differ as much as their cultures and languages, but the basic forms are universal. A typical performance begins with a warm-up in which audience members are asked to share personal feelings about various subjects, and a group of actors does brief “fluid sculptures” to dramatize what they hear, accompanied by live music. Then the conductor of the evening asks for someone to offer a story. An audience member comes up to the stage and is interviewed. The only rule is that the story they tell must be their own – it could be memory, dream, or fantasy, but usually it’s memory. The actors and musicians listen very carefully, the conductor gives them assignments, and then come the magic words “let’s watch”. The story is played back. At its best, the “playback” reaches into the story behind the story, serving the storyteller by adding insight and art to what she or he has shared. At its best, it’s as profound as the best performances of Hamlet. (Not surprising - it’s even more real!) Listening to people tell their stories and then watching those stories enacted is one of the strongest community-building techniques I’ve ever come across; that’s why it’s caught on in so many different cultures. <br/> <br/>Personally, I came to playback in 1995, when Asheville Playback Theatre was formed. Although I had some acting experience, all I knew of improv was the kind in which actors try to outdo each other (funnier than thou), and I didn’t like the competitive style. But over the past ten years, I’ve discovered that I can be as effective in a straight romantic scene (playing either the man or the woman) as when I’m cast as a lobster in a Times Square Steak ‘n Ale, or as God intervening in a violent monsoon. Practicing and performing playback has greatly improved my sense of spontaneity and has enhanced my willingness to trust my intuition. And it’s so much fun! <br/> <br/>A few years ago, I began to offer playback theatre workshops at faerie gatherings. Each time, I’ve been amazed at the fit between playback and the skills that faeries already tend to have. Many of us have learned to hear each other’s stories with compassion, in heart circles and in less structured settings. Since the ability to listen deeply and well is one of the most difficult skills a new playback actor has to learn, it’s remarkable how easy it is to teach playback to faeries. No acting experience is required; the kind of acting we do can be taught. The non-verbal communication that’s essential to playback is much harder to teach, and faeries are naturals! <br/> <br/>In August 2004, at the shaman’s gathering at Zuni Mountain Sanctuary in New Mexico, radical faerie playback really came into its own. Early in the week I offered an introductory workshop, with the idea that if 4 or 5 people liked it, we could practice a few more times and then give a performance to the 90-or-so faeries on the land. Over a dozen participants came to the first session, and their enthusiasm was really thrilling. In about an hour they had learned what might have taken a day or two with other groups, and already they were talking about starting playback companies in their hometowns. (The annual shaman’s gathering isn’t called “Faerie University” for nothing!) After a few more practices (in which the actors shared super-intense personal stuff, and developed a profound sense of family), it was show time. <br/>I’ll never forget the excitement of that performance. One by one, faeries came up out of the audience and told us funny / touching / awkward / meaningful moments from their lives. We had a dozen actors, and for most stories we only used four at a time, so all the others sat in the audience and played on musical instruments to support the mood of the enactment. Fortunately, there was a professional photographer from Europe on hand – what he captured on film provides a glimpse of the fun we had that night. <br/> <br/>--- insert 2-3 photos here --- <br/> <br/>For me, the experience at Zuni was so fulfilling that I became more persistent in promoting faerie playback. In March 2005, I went to San Francisco to teach a 3-day workshop and conduct a public performance. It turned out that all but one of the actors in the workshop had been at Zuni 6 months earlier, so we were able to build on the work we had already done. Again, in our practice sessions we played back several intensely personal stories of trauma and transformation, and the bonding that happened among us was miraculous. It was really hard work, challenging as well as invigorating. <br/> <br/>For the show Sunday evening we had 9 performers: Crystal Cobra, Ender, Lady Shalidon, Lucyfir, Mountaine (oh, that’s me!), Mouse, Sin-er-gee, Spiraleena, and Whiteeagle. The stories that evening ranged from Khol’s conflict about staying in the USA or returning to Canada, to Boomer’s story of getting gloriously lost at Wolf Creek, to Shandra’s memory of her first sugar high at the age of 4 at a rainbow gathering, to Storm’s tale of Glitter Bunny’s worldwide search for her tribe. It was a thrill to be hosted by the legendary Kaliflower commune, and because they were directly involved in the early days of the Cockettes, the entire event felt to me like coming round a full circle. <br/> <br/>As time goes on, I feel more committed than ever both to my home company in Asheville, to the global playback movement, and to planting seeds for faerie playback theatre. At home, I’m participating as fully as I can in prisons and in public shows with my ongoing playback family, who I love dearly. Globally, I’m helping organize playback companies in a series of theme shows (stories of “acts of kindness, and missed opportunities”) around the world on November 13th for World Kindness Day. And in faerie space, I am available to offer playback training wherever and whenever it’s wanted. If you’re interested in hosting a (free) workshop at a gathering or in your local community, please let me know via email at mjonas@madison.main.nc.us, or through RFD. <br/> <br/>This is my story. Sometime soon I’ll tell this story at a playback show. If the conductor feels like having my story done in an abstract way, she’ll tell the actors to do the story “sing-dance” style. She’ll ask me to cast an actor to play myself, another actor to play the radical faerie tribe, and a third to play the muse of playback theatre itself. She’ll instruct them to move but not to use sound. Then she’ll choose 3 more actors to stand still and just use their voices. With the magic words “let’s watch”, the movers will find a position on stage and “freeze”, then the sounders will start to make sounds, then the movers will move to the sounds, the sounds will shift, the movers will shift, the sounders will respond to the movement and the movers will respond to the sounds, and I’ll be watching the truthful essence of my love affair with radical faerie playback theatre. I hope you can be there to enjoy it with me! <br/> <br/> <br/>For more information about playback theatre, visit http://www.playbacknet.org. <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://faeplayback.tribe.net">Faerie Playback Theatre</a> - 4 replies </div>

Mountaine 2005-05-11T16:31:10Z Hitirus http://faeplayback.tribe.net/thread/a2991df5-3782-411a-87e2-9b79642fe0b2 2005-06-10T07:52:23Z 2005-06-10T07:52:23Z

<div>There have been many requests to have a repeat performance of Playback Theater this year at the ZMS shamanism gathering. Also a request for a study hall type discussion about the transformative uses of performance art and consciousness. <br/> <br/>angelfood for thought, <br/> <br/>HITIRUS @ ZMS <br/>http://profiles.yahoo.com/hitirus</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://faeplayback.tribe.net">Faerie Playback Theatre</a> - 0 replies </div>

Hitirus 2005-06-10T07:52:23Z Lucy http://faeplayback.tribe.net/thread/f6d2e90b-f512-4f94-888b-ff81595f77a7 2005-05-09T23:41:32Z 2005-05-09T20:59:30Z

<div>Hey there faerie folk <br/> I'm calling a playback play party this thursday at the House ov Wag in Portland. I'll be sharing what I learned at our 3 day workshop in March conducted by Mountaine. Feel free to come and play even if you have no experience. We will start at 3PM and the address is 4154 NE Glisan. <br/> At 7PM there will be a Sisters ov Nomenus/YesssGurlZ discussion pot luck as well. <br/>Lots ov love and sparkles <br/>Lucy Fur</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://faeplayback.tribe.net">Faerie Playback Theatre</a> - 1 reply </div>

Lucy 2005-05-09T20:59:30Z Mountaine http://faeplayback.tribe.net/thread/911db5f9-aed7-4d91-91af-1ddb69520675 2005-04-28T16:32:38Z 2005-04-28T16:32:38Z

<div>Hiya dearies and Happy Beltaine to us all. So this troupe from New York is unique and awesome, and I wanted to letcha know. They combine hiphop with playback with commedia dell'arte (their newest adddition) and they're REALLY good. (There's a new actor who sure seems queer to me.) Go if you can. Big hugs, Mountaine (rhymes with Beltaine) <br/> <br/>------------------------------------------------- <br/> <br/>WEDNESDAY, May 4th, 8 pm <br/> <br/>OPENING NIGHT <br/>YBCA Forum Theater 701 Mission Street, San Francisco <br/>Tickets: $20, $15 for students and seniors, additional group discounts available. <br/> Special performances by Danny Hoch and the improvisational theatre ensemble sensation Playback NYC and featuring some of the leading artists in hip-hop theater including Washington, DC's Psalmayene 24 New York City's Vanessa Hidary and Bay Area artists Aya de León and Dan Wolf. <br/> <br/>OFFICIAL OPENING NIGHT AFTER PARTY <br/>Featuring Dj Sake-1 of (((Local 1200))) <br/>@ Soluna Café &amp; Lounge <br/> 272 McAllister St., <br/> at LarkinCivic Center Plaza <br/>$5 with HHTF ticket stub <br/>http://www.solunasf.com <br/> <br/>THURSDAY, May 5th, 8 pm <br/> <br/>SHORT CUTS: Hip-Hop Flips the Stage <br/>YBCA Forum Theater <br/> Tickets: $20, $15 for students and seniors, additional group discounts available. <br/> Solo and ensemble hip-hop theater artists come together in an exciting evening of live theater including Bay Area beatboxer Yuri Lane, Jerry Quickley, San Francisco's Cultural Odyssey, Aya De Leon, Vanessa Hidary and Playback NYC. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://faeplayback.tribe.net">Faerie Playback Theatre</a> - 0 replies </div>

Mountaine 2005-04-28T16:32:38Z http://faeplayback.tribe.net/thread/06c0cacd-8536-4780-9159-ed73ed38801b 2005-03-14T05:24:46Z 2005-03-09T07:48:41Z

<div>i've seen peeps doing this before but got the jist of it. Can someone give me a quick run down? <br/>a summarized low-down? <br/>the spinal cord of explanation? <br/>xo</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://faeplayback.tribe.net">Faerie Playback Theatre</a> - 2 replies </div>

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