week 4

We started this week by working on our Trio Performance, For our piece we decided to perform our piece on the floor instead of at a table and have our bodies interlinked and twisted as we felt this would add to the animalistic side of our piece as well as making it look even more disgusting and highlighting the greed of the people. We also decided to eat the food in slow motion making our movements long and twisted. Again we did this as we felt it made the piece even more surreal for the audience to watch and the exaggerated movements of us eating were even more disgusting to watch. One of the pieces of feedback we got was that the piece could be performed in a paddling pool, we have taken this on board and have decided that we are going to fill the pool with food and have us within it, this is practical for the space we are working in as well as more visually dynamic for the audience to watch.

When watching the pieces one I liked was Ursulas Group. Theirs explored the theme of cannibalism and I think their facial expressions and movements made the piece really engaging and made them look almost dehumanised, communicating their message further. To improve i think they could push their physical actions even further to communicate their message and make them even more twisted and possibly salacious.

This week we also began work on our whole class piece. To do this we did exercises such as 'yes lets'. This was useful to me as it allowed us to work as an ensemble and modify our ways of performing individually so we could work as a whole. It also tested our ability to respond quickly and to improvise. We also looked at creating work from observing objects, for example a plastic band. I found this really interesting as the movement gave us an immediate stimulus to work from, it also meant that we moved our bodies and came up with ideas that we wouldn't normally. As a class we all created very similar pieces that showed the plastic bag that all involved suspension in a way we couldn't create through having planned it.

For our piece we are taking stimulus from Rene Magritte's works, for example 'The Lovers'

I think having our faces covered on stage will look really effective and dynamic, and by combining it with us all moving as a whole it dehumanises us as an ensemble, meaning if we were to create work from objects we represent them even further. The message of this painting in the cloths having no meaning also goes with what we have been talking about this term and how an audience 'make meaning' for example, when we all looked at this painting we immediately assumed there was a reason behind the covered faces.