Evaluation

After contemplation over the performance on Wednesday I can confidently say that I was proud of the work we showed to the audience. During the show its self I will admit that there where minor hiccups, such as noisy chairs and some people entering the lit stage at the wrong moment. All of these issues went in unnoticed and overall the show ran smoothly. The most difficult part of the performance was moving the chairs in complete silence, as it brought up issues such as wrong placement, hitting people with chairs and difficulty finding the black chairs in the dark, I think we managed this problem well through moving slowly and precisely and it wasn’t too much if an issue for the show. My favourite work in the show was the gorilla scene as it was very comical and evoked a strong laugh from the audience. I think through adding the banana and vocal sound effects like the whistle and creeping noise the piece was improved as it became more engaging for the audience and removed awkward silences. I thought the audience where fantastic during the show as they laughed a lot, and sat with complete concentration in more serious sections of the work. After the show my dad said “it was weird, and I didn’t get some of it… but I liked it.” This shows me that the work got the audience thinking and trying to work out what some of it was supposed to represent, it always shows that the performance was interesting and enjoyable which was my overall ain for this work. If I was to redo the performance I wouldn’t change a lot but I would try to elongate to motifs and make the transitions more interesting through changing the proxemics of the piece, I would do this because it would tidy up the work and remove unnecessary blackouts during the performance.

Show time

Today has been a great day we spent the day rehersing for our performance at 7 o'clock. We did a full run through to find little errors which needed to be fixed, it went well and we discovered lots of little issues such as timing issues and setting stage in darkness. Today we bought props such as bananas and plums. We made small changes such as changing the word peach to plum as we couldn't get peaches and adding a banana for comical effect. Overall I think the show went smashingly and highlights the amount of hard work which went into the work. The work showed how much we had improved since the last rehearsal the day before, and how much slicker the work was. I was very proud of our work after we performed it and I think it was at a great standard. 

Nuances

During today lesson we started with our usual warm up regime with Justine, we do this to improve flexibility and maintain fitness to aid out physical and challenging work we do in our performances. Today we had Justine for a longer period of time than usual, this was to gain tips on how to improve our motifs for the piece. During this session we extended our motifs and added little nuances for extra interesting detail. We added things such as hip movements and arm gesture we had done with both Daniel and Justine in our physical warm ups. We did this to vary the movement we used and to differenctiate our motif from others. I think that through extending our motif we have improved it a lot, this Is because it makes the piece more interesting for an audience member to watch and the little extra nuances such as controlled arm movements befor the faster more striking movements create contrast making the piece more engaging to watch. Today we also did a lot of work on the mimes we had created in small groups. My groups mime was originally rough to start off with and I didn't realy like it as I found it sloppy and not at a standard I was happy with. Over today's lessons my opinion of the mime has changed a lot, because it became a lot more rehearsed and we had fixed little errors such as synthesising rope from thin air, now we pick it up off the ground, this makes for a more realistic and thought through mime. Mime is all about precision and control without these two aspects the work will look sloppy and bad, today through practice I believe our piece has become more precise and now I think it is at a better standard, and more engaging for so,Rome to each and understand fully. Nearing the end of the session Daniel decided to try some comedy in the second tree motif. The idea is to have the dancers notice the clob footed walkers in confusion and then Amy would say "What you doing" and another would say "I don't like it" ect... I don't like or dislike this idea, but I would have to see it in context with an audience before I made my judgment, I think it has potential to be comical but the timing of it needs to be precise, and I don't think we have the timing yet. I do like to concept that the comedy cuts through the dramatic and theatrical serious work and connects with the audience placing them in an awkward position and making them feel uncomfortable. But I feel in needs more work to be effective and not look like a bad mistake which gets pity laughs and not real ones.