New York Neo-Classical Ensemble - “We weren’t really a band, in the classic sense of...

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We're just beginning production on our 2010 season: AS YOU LIKE IT and ROMEO AND JULIET/IMPROVISED.

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"Positive action means that the actor/character focuses on the success of the enterprise rather than allowing the fear of failure to enter the mind or consciousness – every character plays to win at every moment....

The inclination of creativity – both on stage and in life – is to celebrate and to praise life and existence.....

With positive action, the characters hang on not only to the hope but also to the belief that they will get what they want. When they fail to achieve their goals, the effect will be psychologically and emotionally devastating; when they achieve their goals, the effect will be miraculous, exhilarating, and transporting."

- Louis Scheeder, Neo-Classical Training, Training of the American Actor.

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We weren’t really a band, in the classic sense of a band,” says Kannberg. And this is fine, as there’ve been plenty of bands who were bands in the classic sense of bands, though it didn’t do them any good. Pavement would gather, book a studio, I’m sure all sorts of things would happen, an album would somehow get cut, and then they’d all scatter again.

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Relix - Features - Pavement: Return of the Heavily-Favored Underdogs

I’ve been thinking a lot about what we think theater companies must be vs. what theater companies can be (as the John Collins/ERS related material below can attest…as well as firmly indicating what I search for on the internet at work in the absence of Facebook). NYNEO goes long periods without activity and then fierce short periods of real activity centered around a production and a process. When work seems like it’ll happen we come together and do it, and facilitate the means to do it. In the downtime, we experiment, tend to our own careers and lives and other creative outlets. I’m psyched to see what happens when we jump back together and get in a room and work on As You Like It or R+J or untitled third option.

Also, the above article on the band Pavement is by playwright (and fellow Great Recession-er) Will Eno and is an absolutely awesome read.

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