19.09.2014

I thought today's class was very exciting, since we were introduced to Frantic Assembly's and the chair duet. This exercise is a lot about improvisation with movement, but also not thinking about what you are doing or what you are supposed to do, Also trust in your partner, or in my case partners, is important, since you need to let them show their ideas, receiving their offer and then offering something to add to it. Unfortunately, most of us did not really get the main idea of this exerciser, creating a movement piece without a narrative, but rather all of us seemed to have some sort of narratives in our pieces.
    The instruction was to have natural movements you would do sitting on a chair or sofa, which is what I think confused many of us. After showing the pieces to others, and getting some notes from Siou, we tried doing the same movements without expressions on our faces. This did help, but many of the movements still created a narrative, especially my groups that just seemed like a love triangle.
   After the class, I believe everyone really took with them the fact, that you just need to let go sometimes and not think about the movements too much, but also be brave enough to try out things and do some unusual movements. I'd very much also like to corporate some kind of chair duet in the site-responsive performance we will be working on, since I think it is a very innovative and interesting way to do movement.

I found this very inspiring video that is a version of Frantic Assembly's Chair duets and just thought it would be interesting to share!