Performance of Everyday Life [Week 2]
September 16th, 2024: WEEK 2
An Introduction and the First Assignment:
Reading(that inspired the work): Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men
Performance Prompt: Ask a family member or neighbor to tell you a little story; recount it
My second project for Barbara Browning's "The Performance of Everyday Life" class was a doozy! I had to present! I drew lots and mine was last, so I did a reading aloud.
Quite a way to jump into the course; the theory head performing, so here's the text of what I read:
Wonder Woman- September 15th, early afternoon.
Note: these are the notes I used to make my presentation, they are not verbatim what I said in my class; spacing has been inserted for visual clarity.
Method: Record as much as you can, but don’t let it overwhelm you…
Setting: I'm sitting on my roof, smoking a cigarette, and my neighbor come's upstairs.
Do you want me to a tell you a story you’d want to hear or do you want me to tell you a story my children enjoy?
I think I’d like a story you tell your children.
Ok, so it’s a story about Moana, and the Rock, and Wonder Woman.
This story is a personal favorite of my daughter, well my two youngest daughters. They like to hear to hear stories over and over again. It’s something a tell a lot. It’s one of those stories that puts them to sleep… and usually makes me sleepy as well.
It’s a story about Moana. Do you know the movie Moana? It’s a favorite in our household. My daughter’s the absolutely love it. I think I know every line movie in that movie. Not that I mind. It’s a great film.
The songs slap.
They do slap, don’t they?
So they’ve just beat all those little people, oh jeez, I can’t remember what they’re called, what’s their name?
Do you mean the crab? Or the mountain?
No, not those guys, the other guys. It’ll come to me.
Anyways, so she, MOANA, she’s on this boat, right? She’s on the boat with Maui… and with, um, you know, her two little friends Hei Hei and Pua and they’ve just defeated those people, whatever they’re called.
Maui says he wants to go for a swim. I tell more like he decides to go on a swim, but, anyways, he says he’s going swimming, and when he goes swimming.
He tells Moana he’s going swimming and that if she’s sails in a straight line, then she’s bound to catch up with; she will catch up with him.
And that’s all she has to do. Take his word for it and sail forward.
“Have Faith” that I’ll be there, yeah?”
I mean, I don’t say it that way, but that’s about it. So Maui goes swimming and here Moana is in the boat and Maui is gone and Moana sails in a straight line and all of a sudden she sees wonder woman flying overhead and she goes and crashes into the ocean and Moana goes and sails over to her to go save her. To pull her out of the water right?
So, she pulls Wonder Woman out of the water and they all sail off together and then Maui joins them and then they go off to beat Tomatoa.
It’s a like a little diversion, you know? It fits in the movie. It’s gonna be a part of our movie.
Does she have to sail in a different direction?
What do you think the story is about?
I guess it’s about perseverance and saving people. Right? The people who protect you are people you can save as well. The story is about...
See you all next week!
Ian/Apollo
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