7.3.12
Face to Face with Andrea Kleine
In the outdoor plaza on 29th St. and 6th Ave.
Andrea is a contact that I know on multiple levels--she started out interpreting my work, then became a collaborator and a friend. She notes that there is a mystery involved in the process of interpreting performance. I say that this is the same mystery that I find in the process of forming relationships.
She brings up the way that fewer rehearsals can create a performance that is more spontaneous and alive--that planning is different from rehearsal. She is looking for authenticity in performance, but not the traditional naturalistic theatrical "authenticity" of feeling the emotions that you're portraying. She talks about the experience at Mount Tremper Arts, and how the children managed to maintain freshness with repetition, partly because they know an important rule--if something stops being fun, throw it out.
