This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Fringe Festival Performance Workshop Summary

Episode Date: May 24, 2024

Mike participated in a workshop on performance in preparation for the 2024 KC Fringe Festival.  He talks about the experience.

Hi, I'm Mike Chernivsky, and your listen to this podcast is Un Called For. I hope everyone's doing good this fine evening as I record this I'm doing the sake as I participated in a workshop this afternoon conducted by Stephanie Roberts now share with you a few things that I picked up at this workshop, brought to us for purposes of the KC. Fringe Festival. So it was, it's primarily an acting workshop, because, I mean, let's be honest, Fringe as core as a theater festival with other things going on. and at the time I'm recording this the plan is to get back into it and odds are we will likely do so

for the 2024 calendar year so it'll be awesome not a whole lot of people showed up but one person who did was friend of the podcast Jamie Morrow and Jamie and I wound up doing a few of these exercises together and Sue

now let's talk about some of these exercises so one everyone was broken up into two different groups and the exercise is called Venus and Mars and the entire idea was

to come up with Vivor routine each team one was doing Venus Greek goddess of live and the other team

did a Mars the Greek uh excuse me Roman god of war why I say Greek the Greek the Greek equivalents

are Aphrodite and Aries all right so it's the Roman gods Venus and Mars so Jamie and I are both

Team Venus, and we came up with an eight-step routine that felt kind of like yoga. The other team members said it was more like Tai Chi, whereas the Mars group, they came up with something akin to what you'd see in a martial arts class. it's a cool really cool seeing the two groups intermingle and all that got a little it felt a little awkward I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna lie but yeah it's pretty cool next came a couple of writing exercises so everyone was asked to bring an item to uh actually a couple of items i didn't really think about this so just used the uh hat i was wearing given my it's still winter in kansas city while i record this and we're talking uh below freezing right now so obviously got i have a hat on especially

with this bald head and it was a chess tussle cap so I had write a little bit

about it and we stopped a couple of times to interject something and this is what I wrote for this first part I am looking

at tussle cap that I kind of sort of stole from work my kind of sort of means we're giving this stuff away all right we got clear out the office space but before the end of year and uh to do that we just got rid get rid shit so it's blue which is my favorite color and has a rook embroidered on it signifying that's a chess themed hat? I'm wearing it today because

I remembered how freaking cold it's been the last couple of days and needed to keep my bald head warm. What's neat about this hat is I don't remember.

Sike! What's neat is that it's a conversation starter and people ask about it, learn that I teach the game professionally, that, or that I'm a licensed tournament director. Either way, it's pretty cool. Next, we added the item to another person. In my case, it was Jamie. And we were asked to write lists about R.I. And she brought a kaleidoscope, a wood kaleidoscope.

Kind of looks like a telescope, but it's a kaleoscope. And we had to write down some words for each other. This is the list of Jamie came up from just a blue tassel cap with a brook on it. Knights, cold, fortress, queen, royalty, royals, Schiffer, Minecraft. I never played that in my life, but I don't know. Games, fight, protect, cozy, fun, nostalgia, rook, stone, strong, war, cannon, archery, archer, protector, fire, enemy, chess, checkmate, mortar, building, construction, ancient ancestors. to write once again using

some of those keywords that the partner gave us and this is why I wrote this time so chess is the art of war on a game board the goal is to put your opponent's king into checkmate

when you're the best of the best on grandmaster you know that you need to get your knights and bishops into play and then castle to protect the king then a little switch here I think you'll notice novice players insist on getting me the rook into play early

but given my range of motion being so limited there's very little I can do early on the cold hard truth is that I need my knight and bishop

buddies to do the dirty work for me before I could do what I do best and then we were asked to somehow combine the two

I chose not to read mine to the workshop participants because it was so freaking long and we'd probably be there all day but I'm going to read for you guys now on the podcast

so and yeah it sounds like I'm right about work and I kind of in but that was always on my mind so here we go chess is the art of war on chess board I teach professionally

and to signify that I wear a tussle cap that I kind of sold, uh, stole from work. I don't remember, psych, I do remember why I wore it today. It's freaking cold out, and I'm a bald man, and it's a good conversation starter. What's cool is that there's a rook embroidered on it. The rook should wait for his nights. and Bishop Brethren to do the dirty work before coming into play. But way too many novice players take them out way too early.

As though, that's the way to win a chess. The cold-heart truth is that early on, the rooks work best when they're protecting the king. And you can also tell a player is new when they are full. to the rook as a castle everyone who's been playing let me finish that thought real quick

knows that castling is the move you move here king over two towards the rook and then the rook just goes on the opposite side and there are rules of gasoline like

can't castle in check can't castle through check and can't Castle into check. King has to be safe all the time. The spaces between the rook and the king need to be clear.

I digress. I digress. At this point, we took a break. Jamie I do catching up. It turns out since she was on the podcast, she did a few things, including a commercial with

one, Patrick Mahomes. which I promised me to talk a little about what I've already talked about in regards to take a drink the Travis Taylor thing specifically

yeah I'm one of my coworkers that neighborhood and the shout out of on New Heights and I did when I'm messaging her the video with that shot at

at the end of class those but yeah that's pretty cool and then the last bit was an exercise before I went around

a second object and lo and behold for me that sectioned object was another hats in this case a mini sombrero

we have found useful things to do with this object so for me they were used as a bowl for salsa twirl on my finger and well you got an alien spaceship deal going and then lastly used as a frisbee they were told to write a few things down about it and here's here's my list so tiny Mexican salsa

Calor yes some of these are in Spanish Shade Frisbee alien illegal good food Piquino Little Ninitos

stylish comical Darme Ceresza I don't know if anyone's ever seen any of you guys have ever seen a born in East LA but that's the reference vacation

beach nice weather and they were told to do the actions that we had just done and write a haiku about it and incorporate those actions into the reading of this haiku so here's the haiku that I wrote

I'm on vacation salsa and food on the beach Darmese So really cool stuff There's another workshop Coming in

A little over a week I might be going to that one too We'll see But yeah this is fun This is fun Nice get back in touch with the acting side

of things for a little bit and and yeah just fun times and kudos to Stephanie for put together such a great little program and

yeah if I go to this second workshop I'll probably do a recap on that as well and I think it's going to do it for this time so

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