Re: RAT THE SUPERBOWL?

[Allison Narver <anarver@yahoo.com>]

Dear Wally-
I for one am always in favor of huge public spectacle
in front of a stadium full of sports fans. I think it
would be great (and this is an old idea and it must be
admitted, not mine alone) if it involved freshman
congressman from Washington DC and they sang, "Little
Rock, AK" from South Pacific.  I can't imagine that
anyone would be left unmoved.

I think the key is (as always) tiny and very specific
hand movements.  They are extremely effective when you
have a cast of thousands.  They are very powerful when
used appropriately.

I think we should do it.  But then, this has always
been my dream.

No joke.
Allison

--- vz <dexteriously@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com> wrote:
> The Super Bowl halftime show is a close as most
> people will ever get to
> Robert Wilson, or Pina Bausch,  or Balinese
> Shadowplay, and in that way
> it is a valid discussion because it comments
> directly on the state of
> multidisciplinary perfomance in the States. Nothing
> that happened in
> the halftime show was all that formally
> revolutionary- the mere fact
> that it was the halftime show is.
> >  
> > --brad
> 
> I wish I'd watched that halftime show more closely,
> Brad, because I'm
> all in favor of a discussion of how we, as artists,
> might make use of
> mass culture, or work against it.  Unfortunately,
> though I had the TV
> on at the time, I found it hurt my ears, and the
> plug for Disney World
> at the end made me queasy.
> 
> Still, I'm interested: what are the questions worth
> asking here?  Does
> the staging of a multimedia spectacle in front of
> such a large audience
> have implications for what you and I can or should
> do?  Should we be
> seeking out new contexts for our work?  What would a
> RAT halftime show
> look like, and who would book us?  If no one, then
> should we be
> organizing our own football games and using them as
> a marketing tool to
> draw an (unsuspecting) audience to our work?  Should
> we take Disney
> money, and pay our artists?  What if Disney expects
> a plug for their
> products to be woven into the content of our show?
> 
> What do we want to say to a stadium full of sports
> fans?
> 
> --Wally Z
>  
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