First of all, Happy late new year to all, hope it brings you all you want and need in your lives...

The team has been running around during the last few weeks. Why everytime I say this it sounds to me like an old excuse...? well, the fact is that many things have been happening these last two months. Where can we start... hmmm...

December.

In December we kept ourselves busy pre-producing and running several projects. [IN] Xing presented the School Network with a performance at Taiping elementary school. The play chosen to produce was \'T\'was the night before Christmas\', the famous poem by Clement Moore. Chad developed a simple script based on this poem, and the play was staged as shadow puppet and acting show.
The pre-production was pretty busy, as we had to manage the local production of the project, schedule rehearsals, contact the actors, source and buy the materials for the set and some other things. We run the show very successfully on a couple of ocassions, as well as in our own space, on the Christmas dinner and party. For this project we had new people working in the team: Ke yao and Helmi, who came from Singapore and found himself unexpectedly involved on all this... they all did a great job and it was fun to work together. Looking forward for more in the future...

Right after the tour, we had a Christmas weekend in our space that included a children workshop, as well as a dinner and the show we just produced. That was Saturday, 23rd.

That morning, when we were about to start the workshop, Chad got a call from Macau: Kami, his wife and partner of the company, was heading to the hospital. The baby was coming three weeks before expected. You can imagine the situation... I drove Chad downtown... really fast... he got a cab to the airport and took off to Macau. Now it sounds funny to me, but there were quite a lot of nerves on those moments... congratulations to the new parents...!!!

January is almost over as well... last week we had a theatre and voice workshop at Ming Dao school in Wurih, Taichung County. Chad flew in and Ofelia (production assistant) was leading the theatre games lessons. Victor was the voice teacher. It was a challenging workshop, the expectations were very high and our time very short (it was a 14 hour, two days workshop). Finally, things worked out as planned and designed, and a lot was achieved with 12-13 years old kids who never had any kind of theatre and voice training or experience. Overall, nice experience...

That\'s the short version of these last two months. We\'ll be uploading some pictures from all those projects soon, so stay tuned!

Halloweeeeeen at [IN] Xiiiiiing!!

Halloween at [IN] Xing was a smashing success!

We would like to extend a gracious thank you to all who made this event such a special time. Students and parents joined in the morning and afternoon for a variety of Halloween workshops and activities and folks came out in the evening for Musical Jams, Halloween Arts Exhibitions, and Drinks at the Bar.

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[IN] XING THEATRE @ GROOVEYARD
AFRICAN PERCUSSION WORKSHOP led by Victor Garnier

WORKSHOP OUTLINE

"The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted it with power and greed... which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants." Babatunde Olatunji.

I. COURSE OBJECTIVES
A. The workshop will provide an introduction to African music tradition and popularization, focusing on percussion and drum playing (workshop run in English with Chinese translation).
B. Introduce the students to the basics of djembe playing, according to West African traditions.
C. The students will work individually, in small groups, and as a whole ensemble to develop their skills and understanding of the work and rhythms studied.
D. Combining three primary AIE (Arts In Education) elements: theatre and music games, group discussion and instrument playing, students develop their knowledge about musical ensemble work, African culture and rhythms, brain-voice-hand coordination, self-awareness and awareness of others. Arts in Education exercises are physically and mentally challenging and encourage the student’s inherent desire to excel.
E. Most importantly, to experience the fun of learning and working together!

SCHEDULE
15:00 INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKSHOP CONTENT AND WELCOME ALL STUDENTS.
15:15 MUSIC AND THEATRE GAMES & ICE BREAKING GAMES
15:50 INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN MUSIC SOCIAL CONTEXT, INSTRUMENTS AND STYLE AND THE POPULARIZATION OF AFRICAN MUSIC
16:05 BREAK
16:10 THE THREE BASIC SOUNDS ON A DJEMBE: CLACK (SLAP), TONE, BASS
16:25 INSTRUMENTS ON THE TRADITIONAL ENSEMBLE
16:35 THE TORO RHYTHM
17:00 THE CALL
17:10 BREAK
17:20 THE DALAH RHYTHM
17:50 Q&A AND EVALUATION
18:00 CLOSING

This is a beginner’s workshop, no musical experience at all required. Please bring paper and pen if you wish to take notes. Bring your own snacks if you need to eat during the scheduled breaks. Bring comfortable clothes that don’t constrain your ability to move and dance. Try to avoid skirts and jeans.

Please call Roger (0932 506 904) or Patrick (0939 574 737) at least 24 hours in advance to confirm attendence.

The workshop will start at 15:00 sharp. Be on time, please.

The Grooveyard

Halloweeeeeen at [IN] Xiiiiiing!!

KIDS PROGRAMS

Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006 @ [in] Xing Studios @9:30-16:30 PM

Ages 7-12

[IN] XING THEATRE

HALLOWEEN WORKSHOP 2006

OUTLINE HALLOWEEN WORKSHOP (OCTOBER 28 TH )

“To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.”

•  COURSE objectives

•  This process provides a complete experience in the learning and use of a language (classes in English & Chinese).

•  Introduce students to the Halloween tradition in the west

•  Introduce students to the exciting world of imagination and teamwork through a Halloween story and Arts and Crafts activities.

•  They will work individually and in small groups to develop their ideas and understanding of the story studied.  

•  Combining three primary theatre elements: arts & craft, theatre games, and storytelling students develop their physical and verbal communication skills, their linguistic skills, their self- confidence, their creative thinking and analysis, their physical, mental and emotional awareness and their ability to relate these skills to their social lives where communication and language is most valuable. Theatre exercises are physically and mentally challenging and encourage the student's inherent desire to excel.  

•  Most importantly, to experience the fun of learning and working together!

SCHEDULE:

Morning

•  09:15 Kids Arrival

•  09:30 Introduction of the workshop content & welcome all students

•  09:35 Theatre and Music Games & Ice breaking Games

•  10:35 Snack Break

•  10:45 Introduction to Halloween. Halloween story-telling and discussion

•  11:50 Lunch Break

Afternoon

•  12:50 Arts and Crafts activities: Pumpkin carving and painting

•  13:50 Break

•  13:55 Arts and Crafts activities: Pumpkin carving and painting

•  14:45 Pumpkin seeds barbeque

•  15:00 Snack Break

•  15:10 Arts and Crafts activities: Halloween Mask making

•  16:10 Break

•  16:15 Day closure: Theatre and Music Games

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Halloweeeeeen at [IN] Xiiiiiing!!

Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006 @ [in] Xing Studios @7:00-12:00 PM

From the folks that bbrought you WACFEST, we now bring you Halloween, Mountain Jams.

Come out and join a very private party in a very private space. This is the first [IN] Xing event since we opened in August, and given the space alone, it's going to rock!

LIVE MUSIC

Polanski Film Screenings

Halloween Art Installations (if you would like to present something contact us)

OPEN MICS

MULTIPLE VENUES

GREAT DRINKS

OUTDOOR MOUNTAIN SPACE WITH GREAT TREES, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, and a starlight view you just can't get Downtown.

Bring out your voice, your musical talents, your scary stories, your costumes, your dancin' shoes and anything else you think will get you into the Halloween Mood.

Bring your bathing suits if you wanna dip in the river.

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