Meeting with the Montagnards via Skype was great. I have the most interest in what their theatre community is like. I am aware that we never really touched on it, though we did discuss their music and cultural arts to some extent. I am interested to see what there theatrical practices are and how they are similar or different from our western classical approaches to the theater. I have some ideas but I am sure I'm probably off on a few things.These web pages will help out. They discuss the Hip-Hop Culture in the Dega movement. Hip-hop is form of dance that can in many ways tell a story, the other web page is web page discussing the history of the Montagnard people, history is where most all art comes from, this will serve as a possible spring board into the life content of a potential Theater piece.
http://www.cal.org/co/montagnards/vpeop.html
http://diacritics.org/2011/01/05/mondegas-for-the-people-a-montagnard-hip-hop-debut/
An actor or orator in the Montagnard community could help me out in this. It would be exciting to do a silent clown piece with him or her, there is no language and the physical acting is purely technique and and organic impulses.
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