Week 10 - Group Performance Work

In today’s lecture we introduced our idea to Dan for some advice, we wanted to know if ideas that we had discussed would be suitable for a performance. We were told to go with our Game of Thrones option, but base it more around the themes within the show rather than doing key moments this is because of how popular the show is if we just recreate those scenes, we are not creating any original ideas. To begin creating our piece we discussed themes and words that pop into our head when we think of Game of Thrones, this was an easy task but was something that benefited us a lot in terms of how these word could spark an idea for the piece.  Although we chose to use GOT as our stimulus, Roosa hasn't seen any the show therefore only had a basic knowledge of the show from what other viewers have told her about it, this was also a good thing for the performance as it means that we have varied opinions on it rather than one. 

Here is the list of the words and themes we came up with.

Steph suggested that we take some of these words and add movement into it, to make it look visually interesting for our audience, after playing around with idea we made a scene that starts with the group walking in the space (apart from Roosa) doing the Butoh walk, to create a state of tension and rivalry between us. This also highlighted that we were using techniques we learnt throughout this module.We also used Laban's effort actions to choreograph an small fight scene.

We wrote down our ideas from today’s lecture and what material that we could use for our performance.

We have now created foundations for our performance that we can continue to expand and create a well structured performance. After seeing what we produced in this lecture Dan gave us some feedback which we will take on-board and use to improve our piece.