Class piece, week 6.

This week to develop our group piece we explored using spontaneous writing to create text that was in response to the piece 'The Lovers'. We then took someones response in our pairs and chose sections to incorporate into our piece.

Me and Maria chose this :

But love is not close, hate and pain come with it.
To love we must accept that we are human in every form that takes.
The earth spins round and no one notices.
The days go by and we forget what exists.
The lovers to not take this into consideration.
They become elusive and we take this as a privilege.
It will always be there until its not and the earth will spin round until it catches up with us.

I found working with this text really useful and it gave us stimulus to create our duet around, i also think that the initial task was useful in us looking at how much meaning we can take from something that essentially doesn't have any meaning and allowed me to understand how that can work for our own piece as well. I think putting these together as a class really worked and created a kind of soundscape of text and responses to the painting. I especially liked Daniels and Lauren's as theirs was a very literal response and by ending on that it conveys to the audience that this is just a painting and their doesn't have to be any 'meaning' behind it. To improve i think we all need to work on refining our physical movement, for example for me and maria we need to work on making it all flow and be cleaner. As well as this learning the text for our pieces will also make them cleaner as we will be confident in what we are saying and not have to focus on it as much.

We also worked on the 'lava' transition that gets us from the ensemble piece to our text duets. I think this section is something i need to work on and be more bold in my choices to make the section more interesting for the audience to watch and engage with. I think this is something me and maria can develop in rehearsal and we just need to not overthink the transition.