Week 6

Whole year Piece

"Questions of the Cabinet"

To begin in creating our group piece we worked as individuals exploring our own bodies and weight, we then built on this by working with a partner and exploring how we can respond to their body and how they move. Starting like this was helpful in putting me in the right frame of mind, it allowed me to remove the distractions around me and instead start thinking about the physical qualities of myself and this other person. We then progressed this further by involving questions, for example 'what was the last thing that made you laugh?', involving questions like this meant that we had to allow our bodies to respond naturally and allow them to discover. This is something that took everyone some time, at first i feel like i was definitely thinking too much about it and as we progressed i was able to relax more and not overthink.


We then began working as a whole class, responding to questions that were presented to us. This exercise required a balanced effort and enthusiasm from everyone. It was important to be aware of who was around you in order to not hurt anyone as well as to be able to respond to their bodies. Personally i found this section really worked as an ensemble after we all got into it, and i felt the responses people were giving were honest meaning that we could all work together effortlessly. However, i feel when we asked individual members of the class to give their own verbal answers to questions the work didn't flow as the answers weren't entirely honest. Therefore i think for the piece to work the answers we give as a group have to be truthful as for the rest of the ensemble to respond they have to be able to connect with the original response.


Finally we worked on having a member of the ensemble respond to the question physical before the entire ensemble gradually joined in and responded to their response. This i feel worked really well and i was able to watch the initial person make their own discoveries before joining in with them. for this section to work the ensemble have to give themselves and the person giving the initial response time to discover and make their response alive as if we rush it the work doesn't flow and becomes unnatural. As an ensemble we also have to work on not always forming a 'clump' in the centre of the piece as this restricts the work and ability to discover, instead we want to fill the entire space and form individual responses within it.


I really enjoyed working on this section and i feel it creates a captivating piece for the audience, as well as this i found it really helped us to all develop as an enable and work with people we wouldn't usually as when you are in it you don't notice who it is that is around you and instead just their physicality and what they are doing that you can respond to. I feel to develop further we need to work  on giving ourselves even more time to 'discover' as this will make our work flow even better and also allow us to create work we are happier with.