Horse at GVSU
Nico on Nov 13 2005 at 10:40 am | Filed under: General Theatre
Nico says: Well, I reach. (And I have no idea how I am going to let people know that this site has been updated, as while I’m on the road I don’t have access to the mailing list. Something will have to be thought out!)
Got in at almost midnight last night, just after eleven, in fact, and drove to the Alumni Center, where we are all staying — Winston, Philip, and me. Got a campus tour today, and was wowed and made extremely jealous by the creative arts building. All the performing arts share a complex, and across the way is the visual arts complex, attached to a series of residential housing for visual and performing arts students. The idea is that creativity may strike at any time, and so they’ve made it safe and convenient for artists to get up in the middle of the night/walk back and forth from their rooms at any time when the muse is on them.
These people get it in a way I’m afraid we Bahamians possibly never will. But more on that later.
The theatre is brilliant and sensible, and it’s down the way from a pair of dance studios. There’s a single main theatre which holds almost 500 people as Philip has said, but each of the other performing arts (music and dance) have their own separate performing space. There’s a recital hall in the music wing — 150 or so seats — and the large dance studio has provision for lighting above the floor and bleacher seating around the walls that allows dance recitals to be held there as well. The dance studio also has a viewing window so people can watch the dancers from outside too.
When I think of the state of the so-called National Dance School of The Bahamas, I want to despair. But more on that later as well.
Horse starts at 7:30 tonight. We look forward to that.
Philip, Nico:
What an extraordinary and pleasing, although so familiar, experience it has been to travel with you through your production of ‘Horse’ at GVSU. It quintessentially captured the feel, albeit abbreviated and condensed, of being involved in one of your productions. I did not just read information, but feeling and process, which I combined with my own feelings and memories of working as an actor on your productions. What a great medium to share your work and, for we who have been part of your work, to relive and live others’ experience.
Thank you. Enjoy New York and see you soon.
Sean