Recapping movement with self reflection WK 10

Thursday 21st January

In today's lesson we began to recap our motifs that we created and developed (chair motif, chair duets and table motif).

In our previous videos in particular mine and Iyla's table motif wasn't in our muscle memory. In the video above you can see we don't know the movement correctly, nor the "Rondo" sequence we chose. This was due to afew missed rehearsal sessions. We recorded the session as an unfocused post show rehearsal and talked about areas to improve upon.
To improve this we both stayed on after school and began to rehearse this motif more, using our dance grids we were able to utilize the annotations and focus on the dynamics too , resulting in the movement looking more clean and interesting.

This lesson we recapped the motif and self evaluated the motif and our improvements...

After this, we read through an extract from "Frantic Assembly's book of Devising Theatre" , shown below..

For the rest of the lesson we kept repeating the motifs to get them into our muscle memory to ensure the actions and dynamics were clean allowing the transitions to flow better.

Then me and Iyla explored other methods of performing our own devised chair duets. We explored...

1) One person staring at the other, maintaining their focus on the other person throughout.

Due to our motif being shorter and sharp, it was easier to maintain a focus on the other person/object if we chose. This possibility can tie well into our performance if we decide to be fixated onto an idea/prop or person.


2)Slow motion

This didn't work out as well. Our duet contains sharp movement. Each action is fluid and leads to the next with a certain level of intensity. When performing all of it in slow motion it lost its aesthetic appeal. Yet we decided that having small sections slow motion can work well. The juxtaposition of fast, intense actions and dynamics to slow, softer movement can become a surprise and enhance the motif.

3) Staring at eachother

Seeing as one person staring was effective last time, we decided to explore both characters maintaining eye contact on each other. Yet this wasn't as aesthetic appealing as we weren't able to concentrate on our movement as we were so devoted to maintaining constant eye contact. This then hindered the movement and dynamics in particular as you can see they aren't as sharp as they have and should be.