Week 12 - Group Performance Work

This week we finished and polished our chair duets from last week. We combined all the things we had done over the two past weeks to see how much time our performance was. We were advised to flow the movements into one another rather than going to the beat. Overall we liked the end result. We realised our chair duet had some elements of Biomechanics with an etude before each movement and its clear cut movements moving systematically into one another. After finalising our chair duets we ran what we had all together before moving on to creating some more scenes.

Passion is what drives our performance: the passion for power in Game of Thrones and the passion we all have towards the show. Roosa who has never seen the TV show acted as our neutral audience and represented the population who have never seen the show. 
The idea of using costume and props came into play. We were advised to explore the darker elements of the show and possibly the obsession people have with it. The Red Wedding is one of the darkest and most surprising episodes in the show with the murder of two of its main characters. That episode alone has greatly affected many viewers. In the initial weeks of deciding our ideas The Red Wedding always came up and we all knew that we would like to include some kind of element from that episode into our piece.

We experimented a lot with different music from the soundtrack but particularly liked one of the tracks - Rains of Castamere by Sigur Ros.

We liked the darkness within the music and started to created some movement to go along with it. The 5 of us spread out across the room and placed our backs against the wall except for Roosa who started at the bottom, representing an "underdog" who manages to make her way up. The idea for this is to have our bodies peeling off the walls and slowly making our way to a chair representing The Iron Throne. It gave a dark element to the performance and with more work and polish we hope to make it an effective scene.

Using the space gave us inspiration to use it even more. By using the room divider it created a perfect backdrop for our silent movie slapstick scene. We incorporated stories form the show and created scenes by turning the dividers. One of us would be on one side of the it while the other one turns it to reveal the other actor. The dividers were fun to experiment with as it gives an exciting effect of transitioning from one scene to another. With more time and practice we would be able to make it look smooth and sharp and hopefully the audience will enjoy it as much as we enjoyed creating it.