{"id":1343,"date":"2016-03-11T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T17:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2016-03-11T13:07:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:07:33","slug":"keep-it-leave-it-want-it-david-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/homework\/assignments-turned-in\/keep-it-leave-it-want-it-david-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep it Leave it Want it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. KEEP IT – Failure.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I swear this first one isn’t coming from a selfish or narcissistic place.<\/p>\n

    Failure has guided a number of our productions thus far and yet I still feel as though we have only scratched the surface of its thematic potential. \u00a0Failure comes in so many shapes and sizes – authentic, accidental, rehearsed, narrative, personal, romantic… there are too many to count. \u00a0Failure can be a powerful narrative element, or a powerful performance technique, but more than that,\u00a0failure is something that people at Williams barely ever<\/em> discuss.<\/em> \u00a0 I think that for this reason alone we owe it to ourselves and our community to keep coming back to failure in one way or another.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

    2. LEAVE IT – Food.<\/p>\n

    I like eating. \u00a0Everyone likes eating. \u00a0It’s how we’re still alive.<\/p>\n

    But as part of an audience’s experience of a performance, I think we never took it past the “Five Senses” assignment where we started shoving food in each other’s mouths. \u00a0I don’t think all this food came from a place of legitimate creative inspiration, and while that isn’t a requirement, I feel that since food was so closely tied to that prompt that it has been cheapened as a tool.<\/p>\n

    Food can also be a logistical nightmare. \u00a0Allergies, choking hazards, crumbs, crunching sounds, food prep, food storage, bad smells, ANTS, etc.<\/p>\n

    3. WANT IT – Choice.<\/p>\n

    I think we’ve talked\u00a0around<\/em> choice as a concept in a number of our discussions and assignments. \u00a0But I think that choice is a powerful tool that we have yet to fully implement as an element of design. \u00a0The Raph Koster book is all about designing systems of player choice – creating rules to effectively limit and guide player choice. \u00a0 I think that choice is sufficiently different from interactivity – I think that interactivity necessarily involves choice and that choice can be applied at an audience level (participation, etc.) or a performer level (improvisation, perhaps) or especially at a design\/creative level (when we’re making the stupid thing!). \u00a0Choice is a powerful idea that we have not explored all the way. \u00a0 We would benefit from doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    KEEP IT – Failure. I swear this first one isn’t coming from a selfish or narcissistic place. Failure has guided a number of our productions thus far and yet I still feel as though we have only scratched the surface of its thematic potential. \u00a0Failure comes in so many shapes and sizes – authentic, accidental, … Continue reading Keep it Leave it Want it<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments-turned-in","tag-davidcarter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}