#darla villani
Hello Dear Friend.
With all that’s spinning in the world right now, I hope you’re very well. There’s so much at stake - and much to change. I’ve been wondering, how’s your summer been going?
New - New York.
For the last month I’ve been working on the Butler University NYC Summer Theatre Program. The students are terrific, and we’ve been seeing tons of performances, visual art and music. They’re also meeting industry professionals and going behind the scenes to learn about process from a variety of perspectives.
Along with providing context and conversation pre and post productions, I’ve been documenting moments, events and wrangling them online. It’s been wonderful to be a part of their New - New York.
See Our Summer at a Glance.
Heck, art is good. Yup, we’re on the interweb, Facebook&Instagram. Like and follow us behind the scenes and into the action.
Thanks very much!
Sending goodness x, Darla
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Portal 1812 - Congrats to the cast and crew for a great (sold out) opening night! Tickets: https://butlerartsfest.com/events/butler-theatre-portal-1812
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Portal 1812. The cast warms up for the first night of tech.
4.13 -4.17 @ 80 min Info & Tix:
https://butlerartsfest.com/events/butler-theatre-portal-1812
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“She feels the cool split walking in, something sugary, perfumed…” Portal 1812
Info & Tix: https://butlerartsfest.com/events/butler-theatre-portal-1812
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The set starts to come together.
…more to come. #portal1812 (at Butler University Jordan College of the Arts)
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We have a poster for the production…“Portal 1812” - two weeks until tech. (at Butler University Jordan College of the Arts)
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Integrating fresh material / Constructing a preliminary order.
Recalibrating the scene template for “Portal 1812”. Coming soon - a new evening length multidisciplinary performance work at Jordan College of The Arts at Butler University. Part of Butler ArtsFest 2016, April 13th - 17th.
Get updates on this project…join me.
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Sean Caron, Theater Major executing his rendering of “Phrase C” during the workshop today. - @ Jordan College of The Arts, Butler University.
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Beginning scene template for “Portal 1812”…rehearsals start next week. — at Butler University Jordan College of the Arts.
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Presentations via Interdisciplinary Workshop / round one:
Butler students show research for “Scoring Your Object” investigation with shared criteria - the pathway into their work is constructed!
(Lexy Weixel / Theater Major)
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Working on “Phrase A” in class today - articulating the location, the toggle between real time and narrative time.
Butler students are considering what content or questions from a previous investigation to use as subtext for the allotted zones within the phrase.
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Making Ideas Visible.
Brain space.
Things are in full swing here on the lovely campus at Butler University’s Jordan College of the Arts.
I’m finding my way into a rhythm of teaching along side these incredibly bright students coming from Theater, Dance and Music concentrations. Many have double majors including Anthropology, Psychology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literature, and Music Performance and Composition.
Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary / Devised Performance
We’re toggling between building ideas from conceptual means into physical form, and conversely from the physical to conceptual utilizing writing prompts, set material, sound, visualization, shared structures and themed criteria - working individually and as an automatic ensemble. We are rendering ideas in the spirit of creative research, our fidelity to tracking the genesis and pathways of these constructions, reframing the terms with how we show and observe what we make.
In another arena, I’m working with non-majors in a body based / performance studio course. This is exciting to me - it’s how I began as a painter with making performance work. Again, such wonderful students. I’m grateful, I’m learning from all of them.
And there’s the production, more on that process later…I look forward to showing you behind the scenes very soon.
Sending goodness ~ Darla
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First day in the studio.
I’m b a a a c k.
My residency at Jordan College of The Arts - Butler University begins. Excited to work with these very bright young artists.
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The Good Labor
Hello Comrades!
So much preparation in all realms right now. Perhaps you’re in the midst of wrestling a tree or the wave of a burning idea.
My head has been buried in notebooks, research and preparation. A winter long residency at Butler University’s Jordan College of the Arts is drawing near.
Q & A.
With that in mind, I’m asking for your participation in a bit of research here. It’s YOU and TIME sitting across a table, you have one chance, one question:
* If you had one question for TIME, what would it be? *
I’m excited to hear your thinking on this.Click the yellow button above, email below or simply hit reply. Thank you!
Wishing you all the best with what you’re working on right now.
Sending goodness ~ Darla
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light and dark.
Hi simple.
Best to be simple right now, on my end anyway. For the big picture, I default to Mr. Baldwin:
“For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.”
- James Baldwin
Darla
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