The Movement Theater Company’s Ladder Series is a development workshop dedicated to the creation of bold new theatrical works through dialogue and collaboration. On this blog TMTC Ladder Series Artists will post updates on their process as they workshop, and develop their ideas for an April presentation!!
Yet again, Ms. Jill Scott provides inspiration, and you will continue to do so for a few more posts.
"Here My Call" sounds so "musical" for an R&B Soul album, and yet it still maintains it's genre, with a touch of gospel (and not because she says "God")--it's in the piano. In many ways it feels like a Jewel, Tori Amos standard. Just a hair--just a touch--no?
My girl Ms. Jill Scott has an album out called Light of the Sun. I'm obsessed with this album because she really cracks open soul, and gets a little experimental, keep her poetic lyricism in tact.
The song Le Boom Vent Suite is a 9 minute song that seamlessly transitions from up tempo, to poem, to ballad. It kind of feels like an opera!
I was introduced to this artist by a friend of mine--the raw emotion, the use of vocals, the naked sound, is everything "love" in a relationship is. It's pretty sometimes, it makes harmonies--and sometimes it just doesn't. it's also hard, and takes work to piece together. It's authentic, and speaks from a place that has no name. sometimes it exists just in a sound. "ka ka ka ku kee kee ku ka ka ka" Enjoy.
I'm not your fantasy girl
I'm not your fantasy love
I'm not your fantasy flesh
That fits you like a tight glove
I know I've been away so long
You love me only in your dreams
But wake up
And see the whole line of what I'm giving
I know I've been away so long
You've loved me only in your dreams
Lucky for you, I do much better in real life
I know I've been away so long
You love me only in your dreams
Lucky for you, I do much better in real live flesh.
We are not what you wanted,
We are not what you asked for
Look at us
There's a pretty smile on a lion's roar
I know I've been away so long
and maybe you ca-ca-ca-can't remember
Look at me baby, look at me baby
No no dream will end if I scream
I know I've been away so long
You love me only in your dreams
Lucky for you, I do much better in real life
I know I've been away so long
You love me only in your dreams
Lucky for you, I do much better in real live flesh.
In a self-scripting class I said I wanted to talk about Love and my teacher--said, "that's too broad."
Bingo! I know it's too broad, that why I want to talk about it. It's the one thing that everyone/thing needs, but not everyone knows how to give it or even receive it. Love often gets confused with lust, sex, jealousy, obsession, and a variety of scary words---but love is just love--(until it's not). Love is also NOT "Like".
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (1 Corinthians 13: 4-7)
Such an overused verse-- available at every wedding ceremony--but it's truly the perfect definition of this "broad" word that dictates our every move.
We do things for "love", we don't do things for "love", we do things we don't "love".
Love is blissful. Love is painful.
"Love" is what we go to see in the Movies and in Plays--even the most disturbing movies like "Saw 1"---at the end he cuts off his limb to be with his wife.
"Happy" will be a piece that will attempt to dig into the deepest parts of love and bring it's complexities to light. Notice I didn't say understand it. But if we can at least identify it, then maybe, just maybe understanding will be in the foreseeable future.
It's a love story---but #therealone. #therawone. we're gonna leave the sugar at home, cuz there's nothing to coat. We're gonna be honest, and be liberated in the embarrassment, the awkwardness, the joy, and the tragedy that is the love between to individuals. the will be words, there will be music, there will be name calling, and if we're lucky maybe someone will make up. If we're lucky--maybe they won't
