Casa Stella Maris Caorle Italy
11.03
Casa Stella Maris, Caorle, Italy.
Rising at 06.15.
Morning Sitting at 07.15.
Breakfast at 08.00.
There have been relatively few comments, in comparison with other courses. This changed, following the performance of yesterday evening.
Director Nunez saw blood.
The goodwill of the audience was tangible.
The announcers as a play: The Tower Of Babel.
An entire lifetime may be seen in this week and the performance.
Interrogate the error.
Many good comments were presented.
14.13 Personal meetings at 10.00, beginning with The Writing Project Team Italia.
How to translate Wish into Italian? Desiderata?
An Argentinian professional lost everything, including guitars and gear, in the recent Buenos Aires flood.
A little practicing…
… and more personal meetings. A Writing Project Team Meeting at 12.00.
Lunch at 13.00. Work for the afternoon called.
14.36 This course has had no Alexander Teacher, which is rare, and also no T’ai Chi. Only one full-course female participant. Everyone has already been on courses. With 29 participants, this is a relatively small course. Yet, in historic terms, this would once have been on-the-way to huge.
17.06 Tea at 16.00. Conversation with Dr. Mike on the GC approach to practice.
Meeting with Mr. Marty at 16.30. Mr. Marty is the first Buddy to take on the First Secondary Exercise as a speciality.
Afternoon views I…
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18.33 Guitar Meeting at 17.30.
Circulating with two groups in 5/8 and 7/8. Both failed individually and together. Pitiful in extremis.
Then to the First Secondary Exercise: development, extrapolation and variation. This gave rise to a rocking First Secondary Boogie.
Then, strapping on three-voicing chords of the First Secondary, we went walking.
If we know, if we have experienced, the Procession into the Paradise Garden, this was more like a walk into the Shadow Side of things, without being scary, while rocking out.
Returning to an unspoken Guitarist Inside with three circulations to the right, to the left, to the right again, and ending on a signalled chord.
This felt like a completion to the guitaring-side of the course.
20.53 Dinner at 19.00 with excellent tiramisu. This is Italy, after all.
Followed by a good meeting with Director Nunez, covering a wide range of arisings.
22.45 The Final Meeting at 21.00. Thanks were given to all those who made this course possible, not all of them present.
A few closing comments. Only a few, but a good few, including Points Of Seeing:
one of the Team has decided to become an Alexander Teacher;
intentional cacophony within the First Secondary Exercise - what changed the quality of the cacophony was intention.
At 21.34 and 40 seconds our course was declared completed, this acknowledged by an unfisting around the Circle.
