Cycle 2: Choose your own Adventure
Posted: December 1, 2019 Filed under: Emily Craver, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Cycle 2 of my Mission to Mars developed multiple endings and the switchover to a slightly new narrative. Upon discovering that Mission to Mars is actually a Disney Theme park ride-turned film, funny enough, I decided to switch the story. There is now a three person mission that has gone astray and it is up to the volunteers from the audience to find them. Are they rogue? Are they lost? Are they being sabotaged?
This particular crew chose TIME MACHINE which sent them into journey to who knows what time, accompanied by this GLSL shader and Cyndi Lauper’s sweet voice.
RUN-DOWN of the piece for the PERFORMERS:
LAYOUT of CYCLE 2 CHOREO scenePRESHOW set in three corners of space in chair pathways television and basket preset scenePREAMBLE music starts//text onscreens EM TARA YILDIZ enter from three corners {5 walks getting excited 2 walks trepidatious 2 walks back track 3 walks into trio Slice Phrase} slice/insert/round head/press down 2, 3 3 rotations charging up/dev/kick thru pas de chat/swoop down/walk out legs try to hug/double slap/fail drone faces phrase glob together fancy legs with head going straight frwd, down Left angle, Up above Then look out to audience above heads Realize something wrong//we share something together//a secret} go to Basket and pull three strings to bring basket to center we lay down the strings and walk away from whence we came sceneSTARYAY audience volunteers and cheers sceneFIRST SCENE V.O. Intro sceneTITLES assigned names for players//descriptions out in the space sceneWHICH PATH audience decides how to go sceneSPACESHIP or TIME MACHINE or SUBMARINE text scroll and transition to decide which noise to pick who will volunteers sceneSOUND WATCHER audience picks a sound for the microphone to pick which character will interact with the hologram sceneHOLOGRAMZ TaraEmYildiz run into center light facing the volunteer who won: movement phrase: M with our bodies (Yildi in middle, Tara Em make the slants down) pick up the phone lost connection, hang it up with body– up and down up down and around FACE THE PERSON AND NOD dissipate sceneYOU V.O. Find the light in the vehicle to find out who will volunteer sceneVOLUNTEER instructions sceneHYPOTHESIS flashlight decision sceneMARS or IN THE HOLLOW EARTH or AT THE MALL we celebrate and explain our body language from the hologram: YOU DID IT!!! yayyy MARS: We were approaching Mars when we lost contact with our base and the turbulence was up and down until we crash landed HOLLOW EARTH: We were on a Mission to the North Pole when we lost contact with our base and as we flew over the pole we were sucked into the hollow earth AT THE MALL: Meet you at the MALL, I’m so glad you Called, we went Up and Down Up Down and Around.
Next Cycle will include ways to fail, ways to return to previous sections to make a new decision, a MIDI keyboard that will allow for an easier interaction with the system, and potentially more interaction by the live performers.