Using Text to create a Performance Piece 23/09/16

Recaping Duet work


In the start of the lesson, after we had fully warmed up, we began to recap on the work that we had done previously, for example the main phrase based around secrets and the media. We recaped the main phrase and then split off into our pairs to go over our duets.


My duet is with Holly, whom i have worked with before and we both work well together, and know how each other can work. we recaped our duet, while adding more dynamics, witht eh fluidity and sharpness of our movments, we then teamed up with another duet, and both performed them simultaniously, with us in the middle and the others either side. The two pieces really worked well together, and had some nice contrasting sections, for example when they were using soft movements, and then us being quite harsh with our movements.


To add some more depth into our duet we added a section where they would pick up with some of our movements, and we would all perform in unison, and then go back to our own work, i think that this adds some dynamics to our piece, as the big unsion phrase is really contrasting to the rest as there is usually a lot going on at one point. We then ended the section with all of us pulling the same unison tabluex, which is all of us covering our mouths, and staring out into the audience, which is the move that simblises secrets.




Using Text to create a Performance Piece


In the second part of the lesson we were set the task to find a piece of text in the media or online on a theme that effects us, and we feel has an effect on us, i choose to base mine around a piece of text that discusses womans place in modern society.


I began my anotating my text, and branching off of words that i felt i could make into movement, in relation to that. I came up with things, such as the word 'Rigid' made me think of really sharp, robotic movements, that is all very upright and jaggered.

From here we got up on ur feet and got some material devised. Another member of my class had a piece, about woman being victomised in the work place, about not getting support during their menstrual cycles. I felt that this theme and mine really handed well to each other, so we began to explore to posible phrases and moves that fit to our themes.

The main parts that we came up with were alot of contact work and levels to show supirour sex's in different situations. Alot of our moves relyed on facial exspression to support the theme, for example the girl that i was dancing with had very pained facial exspressions throughout, and then i had a powerful exspression, to show my characters dominace which is reflected through the media.

In advance of the next lesson i am going to look into different views and how other people look at the gender fight, and how other ways equality can be shown.