Score for Mumbo Jumbo Duet by Evangel King and Kristine Maltrud

Performed July 2006 at Cedar Rose Park Berkeley

 

 

Notes:

This score was developed together at our artist retreat May 2006. During June we worked independently developing movement phrases and spatial patterns. The week before our July performance we created our duet using all the material developed.

 

We chose this format to: find new ways of working, let go of unhelpful habit energy, invite chaos, honor and grow our wisdom. Oh yes and without a doubt to have fun. In fact it was so much fun I used this score to create a solo, Traveling with Bits of Mumbo Jumbo (2007).

 

 

 

The Mumbo Jumbo + Jumbo Mumbo + Mumbo + Jumbo + Mumble + Score

 

Resources: choose among these to develop movement phrases

á      Mumbo jumbo (1) – enigma, non-sense

á      Mumbo jumbo (2) – ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity

á      Hugger mugger (1) – a state of confusion, wander aimlessly

á      Hugger mugger (2) – move about in search of food or employment

á      Maunder (1) – talk indistinctly often in a low voice

á      Maunder (2) – speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly

á      Bugbear – alarm with idle fears

á      Mummery – a performance or ceremony regarded as ridiculous, hypocritical or pretentious

 

Specific Actions to Develop:

á      A cumulative movement phrase followed by random letting go of parts

á      A cumulative movement phrase followed by abandoning it without a thought

á      Purposeless movement or path that obscures and confuses

á      Hand covers mouth while speaking

á      Spirals

 

Ends in Nonsense