Day 4: Notes

Day Four: Linda Putnam Notes
August 16th, 2007

OVERVIEW

MORNING
30 minutes Led River (Linda)
15 Minutes Led River (Thrasso, paul, Hilary and tanya)
15 Minutes Group River
Pierre

LUNCH

AFTERNOON
Read out loud Tom Low / Tom High poems
Baby Wheel / 6 Part Ladder

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MORNING NOTES

In any of this work you can have an arena for DONT PLAY
DONT PLAY is a physically set area where you can go when you have an out - the only rule in don't play is that you have to keep talking about the work

See the image, say the image

Pierre

1. say the line
2. characters enact the line

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AFTERNOON NOTES

Q: Is 50/50 Tom High / Tom Low the same as the Return in the Corpse?

- yes - same as return to source - so you can find a judgementless place

- by the time you hit 50/50 in TH/TL 50 will be different in the progression - there is jugement in the progression from High to Low and vice versa - your task is to neutralize that judgement in the 50/50

- judgement is funny - we judge or states as much as we judge the content - thats why the questions are the more important than the answers - so we can figure out our range

Q; Where did the term Tom High / Tom Low come from?

- the name of the man that the technique was put on in the workgroup - Tom Crawly who took Grotowski's workshop in the States. The name given because the Polish name was unpronouceable

- we can work the Baby Wheel (anger, grief, joy)

- we have judgements about these 3 big states - grew up where someone owned these 3 big states - so right away we learned Baby Wheel within a certain tombre in it - Our job is to say: So? What's the next line? What are you going to do now?

- we fool around with a few more way s to express than in our kitchen life - our everyday life - we can work some tools into our everyday lives - so we can have a different relationship with our beloved and our enemies

- we work range in the room so we don't have to experience everything in our lives - all art is a teacher

- there is a quality of thought to the body - there is nothing wrong with image
- one of the reasons we'll push body through form

Q: Why?

- we desire judgement and speed - however, being an independent in training means you have time and patience with no desire for sucess or sucess dependednt on the teacher

GAP - the space between thought and body

Q: Is thought an image?

- we get hung up in the idea that technique isn't authentic - that it takes us away from authenticity - artist needs to develop a belief that you can be authentic through technique and you need to practice to be authentic - PRACTICE identifying what is AUTHENTIC - the brain is a body prastique - just another body part

Q; What is authentic? Why is something you wrote today more authentic than yesterday?

- when you're brought up in technique you may decide you don't belong in technique
- none of us know HOW
- technique can feel empty @ times

BABYWHEEL

Exercise

1. Take the word / image
2. Start in two lines / corridors if in a group, or in a caged river if your alone
3. inhale source
4. exhale source in anger and then to neutral
5. inhale source
6. exhale source in grief to neutral
7. inhale source
8. exhale source in joy to neutral
repeat
- call it for yourself (go faster and faster) until you feel the wheel begin to spin and run and then just run the wheel

Q; Why?
- the road to inconsolable tears - stop questioning and start studying impulse

Q: With the Babywheel, there are three primararies and are all pther emotions carried in between?

Q; How do you get off the wheel?

- you have to introduce rest
-right after sorrow intoduce rest
-stop in joy

- this is a transformation - its a trip - in a life it may take years to transform from one image in a babywheel to another

Q: How long does it take to learn forgiveness?

- life sucks but Im grateful to people along the way
- you have to know how to run the wheel - but also have to get off the wheel

Anger
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Grief .
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Sorrow


Six part Wheel / Ladder
6 part state of being / transformation

Envy
to
Happiness
to
Anger
to
Sorrow
to
Lonliness
to
Peacefulness
to
REST


1. Use a simple sentence that is envy as happiness expresses it
ex. Im so happy for you

2. use a simple sentence for envy the way anger would have it
ex. Its always been easy for you

3. Use a simple sentence for envy as sorrow would have it
ex. I never have luck like that

4. Use a simple sentence the way lonliness would hve it
ex. Are you going to Europe?

5. Use a simple sentence that is envy as peacefulness would have it.
ex. I loved Europe.

6. Use a simple sentence that is envy as REST would have it
ex. Call me when you get back.

- Rest has something to do with accepting your envy
- rest is when you desire the source more than the expression of the source
- rest is the feeling that you have everything you need