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A guest blog series by Christina Gutierrez, a Ph.D. student in Performance as Public Practice at UT Austin Near the end of Friday’s final I’ve Never Been So Happy workshop day before the work-in-progress showing Saturday, we ran the Scene 1 vocals with the musicians. Those of us not in the trio of Western woman […]

A guest blog series by Christina Gutierrez, a Ph.D. student in Performance as Public Practice at UT Austin “I thought, ‘Oh, we could make a musical. Why couldn’t we?’ But I don’t know how to make a musical. So I sent an eight page monologue to my good friend Peter.’” Kirk told this story on […]

A guest blog series by Christina Gutierrez, a Ph.D. student in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin Tuesday found all of us—students, Rude Mechs, UT faculty and staff, not to mention an Austin radio icon—stuffed into KUT’s Studio 1B recording a podcast for John Aielli’s “Aielli Unleashed” radio show. During […]

A guest blog series by Christina Gutierrez, a Ph.D. student in Performance as Public Practice at UT “You’re really enjoying this, aren’t you,” I asked Jared Oberholtzer, one of the workshop stage managers during Monday’s I’ve Never Been So Happy work. While I could have been referring to any number of things about the workshop process, […]

A guest blog series by Christina Gutierrez, a Ph.D. student in Performance as Public Practice at UT Austin For those of you who tuned in to Friday’s live feed at  the work you watched probably looked more like a traditional rehearsal than anything we’ve done so far. No one wrapped themselves in rope and flailed […]

A guest blog series by Christina Gutierrez, a Ph.D. student in Performance as Public Practice at UT Austin You wouldn’t think flopping around on the floor wrapped from head to toe in rope could look beautiful. You wouldn’t think that a tiny curly haired actress could play a massive rancher named Brutus Baghand. You also […]

A guest blog series by Christina Gutierrez, a Ph.D. student in Performance as Public Practice at UT Austin Today’s work was about bodies. Well, bodies and rope, actually. After learning part of “Electric Signals,” Jeremy’s song from Scene Three, as a group and spending some time with Erin working through a more realized version of […]

A guest blog series by Christina Gutierrez, a Ph.D. student in Performance as Public Practice at UT Austin Desert Voodoo In the middle of constructing a giant laundry line suspended between two eighteen foot ladders and hung with everything from large cotton bloomers to silk slips to a feather boa with a giant plastic bird’s […]

A guest blog series by Christina Gutierrez, a Ph.D. student in Performance as Public Practice at UT Austin This will be a blog about being tied to a mountain lion. And about the biggest knot in the whole world—a knot so big that there are cities tangled up in it. And about what happens when […]