DV8 created a short film that uses dance, dialogue and physical theatre to tell their story about "two performers and their interaction with other performers". It really explores the life of a disabled performer and how their life can be sometimes like in a circus, with close minded people treating them wrongly. The movie also addresses feminism briefly, and how a person that on the other hand treats his disabled friend well and like any other person, but then women to him are more of an amusement. This film really inspired everyone to try out different approaches to our devising, but also to think how they had created the movements and connected it to the story. In many occasions, like when Eddie, aggressive and misogynist main character, is at the club dancing, his head bobbing was over done and almost silly looking, but it created an interesting take on club dancing, and also gave insight to his character. I personally also liked the relationship between two of the more minor characters, who had contracting personalities. One, very shy and quiet, didn't really do any sort of movement at all at first, but then slowly came out of his shell to become a somewhat awkward but endearing character. His crush, a hola-hoop performer on the other hand was a confident woman who's movements were smooth and large, the hoops making her seem even more dominating. She also used the hoops to protect herself from other men later on in the film, which also tells that she is very protective of herself and perhaps used the hoops as a bolder. I thought this was a very interesting movie to watch, and it will definitely help us to explore more common objects and gestures to create our movements from.After the film we were divided into our final groups for the pieces. I got into a group with Chloe and Jenny. We also went around college looking at possible spaces and discussing different factors we have to take in consideration when choosing them. For example, if we wanted to have the piece outside, how would the weather affect to it? How would we arrange light and sound? Also, in other spaces, especially small and cramped ones, we had to think is it was safe. Moving the audience from different spaces to another was a topic of discussion. Could there be smaller performances to lead the audience to the right direction? Or should some pieces connect or start from one place just to end in another? or would using stewards be the best choice? All these things are something everyone needs to think about when we are choosing our sites, since we still want the entire experience to be smooth and amazing, not just the individual performances.
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