As said last time Scripting can be such a headache for anyone. I’m sure you can recall the writer’s block, the incessant feedback from people who just cannot grasp the creative genius behind the irony here or the character development there or master stroke of the denouement if it was to occur when and where [...]
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7th Ward 5: Pink Elephant in the Room
Posted in 7th Ward on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
7th Ward 4: Great Expectations
Posted in 7th Ward on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was a very interesting night this past Wednesday as we began the task of actually writing a formal script from the various scenes that we have worked on with the kids and from other skits that we have yet to see. The fun factor of scripting is not quite up to the little guys’ [...]
7th Ward 3: Dancing with Friends
Posted in 7th Ward on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We danced the night away this past visit to The Porch, breaking off into groups and trying our hands at choreography and directing group activities. It was interesting, to say the least, and gave us an appreciation for the amount of planning and vision needed to engage and channel the children’s energies. We worked with [...]
7th Ward 2: Neighborhood Intrigue
Posted in 7th Ward on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cruising along an overpass with a picture-perfect view of the city, listening to a Neptunes remix of Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”, I couldn’t help but to think of the different perspectives, the different lenses, that the inner-urban experience can be viewed through—the city that I’m looking at as a Tulane student may not [...]
7th Ward 1
Posted in 7th Ward on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On an ideal New Orleans late afternoon, that is one blanketed by storm clouds, gale winds, sheets of rain and intermittent moments of calmness that are even more tangible than the famed humidity; we, the cross-institutional, cross-cultural (including African, Anglo, and Hispanic American) team of students from Xavier and Tulane, anxiously dared the tempest and [...]
