Thursday, March 3, 2011

Notes from Class Today (3.3.11)


Notes from today. They are kind of scattered, but it's all I have. If there are any questions, let me know, :).

Questions about our Society

What is our name?

How did we start?

What do we do?

Where are we at?

Kinship/ relationships (Age)?

Main festival (Festival of Light… we can work on the title)

Logistics/ Roles (not quite complete and can be changed!)

Supplies
Headdresses
Pants
Bells
            Rhonda can make bells! (have an estimate by end of spring break)
            [We should get] Belly dancing bells!

Dancing
Aliana
Kristina
Kaitlyn
Caitlyn
Rachel
Rebecca

Assignment
Rebecca: sewing
Caitlyn: sewing
Rachel: has sewing machine
Giang: sewing
Rhonda: ceramic bells

Headdresses
Kristina
Gabrielle
Olivia
Alliana
Kaitlyn

Narrator: multiple narrators

Ritual (WHAT ARE WE DOING?)
~birth of new year, new harvest, new seeds
~natural harmony of our society
            ~is some difference in ages and what you wear/do, but then
~use of age in our society? (significant? Want to include?)
~talk about significance about props
            ~bells
                        ~different size bells: different sizes, different sounds
                        ~different bells with people sitting down,
            ~seed bombs: gift of life, plan to give to others,
           
~possible setting? Natural setting?
~how about this is the final day of a longer ritual?
            ~have making of seed bombs as part of ritual during week
            ~finale! (like climax of a movie!)

~costumes
            ~wear part of costume for each day of the ritual
            ~on final day: wear entire costume, entire paint

~performance
~make a path?
~procession?
            ~young girls make path, dance down to our final destination
            ~carry seed bombs in cool vessel/basket
            ~It’s like a wedding [procession]!
~designate a final packaging place by putting a tarp down

~packaging seedbombs:
            ~linen: (dyeing it?)
            ~put a note on it

~incense
            ~contribute to senses for ritual (This would be olfactory.)

~We are doing a documentary for our paper. Yaay film, :D.

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