Focus

In today's lesson we focused on looking at the work we have compiled over the previous weeks, and ordering them and working on them to create our devised piece "Moments." I found today's lessons very useful as it removed my confusion and stress over the pressure of creating a good and usable piece of work. Previous to today's lessons I have been worried that we weren't going to achieve work that I was happy with performing to other people, but now I have realised that we had devised more usable work than I thought we had, and that we have lots of strong pieces to display. Today we focused on Justine's motif and the opening to the piece. We decided that in groups of three we where going to perform our interpretations of Justine's dance and use the same piece of music for each. I originally thought that it would become repetitive and boring to use the same piece of music multiple times, but after talking to Daniell I now realise that it'd okay to use the music three times as it would follow the rule of three. The word of the week is focus, and today we realised as a group that showing focus on our face improves the standard of work enormously. I discovered that if an audience see that you are focused it would interest them and be seen as a more professional piece of work. The main issues we discover today were making sure we are on the correct side of the light circle to start the next section of work, this was discovered in the short run through and now we can work on planning where we finish our sections of drama and finding out where we need to be for the next. We also need to work on polishing our work through practice, the main problem in the dance sections is timing and fluidity, but with practice we can improve this to a higher standard. 

Piecing together

Today we worked on organising our work to get a start on finishing our devised piece moments. To tell you the truth today has been a stressful day and a lot of hard work has been put into place. The whole class experienced the group dynamic today and it was difficult to gain full concentration during the first 40 mins of the session. Once the work started to flow we devised and fixed some work we had created with Jill, I thought this work was very effective and set a dark tone through the music and movement. We have decided now that we need to fit a more comical aspect into the piece therefore cutting the tension and juxtaposing the dance like work with a contrast. 5/11/13 The work we devised with JIll comsisted of using grotesque images on chair with a couple dancing around us, we did this to create an interesting dynamic and visual which would come across well to an audience. Overall we didn't end up using this work exactly but it did act as a foundation on which we devised our grotesque couples dance for our piece. I believe that the work has metamorphosised into something the whole class is proud of, now we have made the grotesque movements more prominent to create a larger impact and we have added a motif taken from Justine's work to tie all the work together. The motif does need sharpening up but this will come with practice, but in general I think this secon of work has come along greatly and improved so much to a more interesting and detailed piece of work.

Detail

During today's lessons we focused on the word of the week (grotesque.) We interpreted characters from our lives and portrayed them in an extremely theatrical form, exploring the gestures which could be performed in an over the top fashion. I think this exercise was very effective as it allowed us to learn that we should focus on a characters unique physicality and emphasise these qualities, this would create an very interesting piece which would engage and audience. During the lesson we also used mime to explore details in simple everyday objects, we learnt that the more detail you introduce into mime the more realistic it is.

An EXPLOSION of inspiration

Today we created organic work; this was devised from work created in past weeks based around piano and doll music. We showed the work we devised with Jill to Daniel and this sparked inspiration in the whole class. As we were working we noticed that there were connections with previous work we had devised, we knitted both pieces of work together to create an organic piece. Today I could feel how energetic the whole class was and how proud of the work we produced they all were. We discovered that a section of the piece didn’t really work so we need to work on it, but by the end of the class we had a solid 4 minute piece of work.

The tree exercise

In today's lesson we created an organic motif of movement which we developed from the mornings exercise of (trees.) We stood with our eyes closed and allowed others to control our movement with simple touch, this was developed through us getting into pairs and choreographing a short collection of movement for our devised piece movement "moments." I found this exercise very interesting as it allows you to move fluently through concentrating on our physicality. I think the work we developed will work well in our pice as it shows intricate movement whilst exploring the dynamics of the people on stage. We also explored the concept of slap stick comedy to explore the experience of drama without spoken word to help us. This exercise thought me that I need to over exaggerate my facial expression and physicality to get across a narrative and make it clear to an audience which is extremely important.