22.10.14

   Since half-term is soon coming up, we really needed to crack on with our movement to be in schedule. Originally, at this point, we had planned that we would have most of the movement done, so that after the week of we could focus on our poem and vocality, but since the change in rooms we have fallen somewhat behind, but not too much. So as a group, we decided that it would be better of our time to film the material for the video during our thursdays extra rehearsals, and focus on finish the 4^th part of the poem, rather trying to get the movement finished now. In this blog I will focus on our movement devising and make a seperate post about the filming.

”we weren’t the only kids who grew up this way
to this day
kids are still being called names
and if a kid breaks in a school
and no one around chooses to hear
do they make a sound?
are they just the background noise
of a soundtrack stuck on repeat
when people say things like
kids can be cruel?

every school was a big top circus tent
we were freaks
lobster claw boys and bearded ladies
oddities
juggling depression and loneliness playing solitaire spin the bottle
trying to kiss the wounded parts of ourselves and heal
but at night
while the others slept
we kept walking the tightrope
and yeah
some of us fell”

Yesterday my group briefly started to devise some of the first movements for our fourth part of the poem. After falling to the ground we get up ready for a movement sequal. We used what we saw in the DV8's movie on how to create movement – start from a normal action and them blow it up. Starting off by thinking abour what being bullied feels like, like you want to hide and block off everyone. We created 4 movements, mostly using our hands and upper body, to convey these emotions. The sequence would start very formal, everyone in the same pace and then turn in to manic mess of all of the different gestures melting together. This would stop suddenly when Jenny says the line ”kids can be cruel?” .

After this we took the poem quite literally to turn into 'freaks from the circus', just because we thought that this imaginery was so strong. Twisting our bodies and moving towards the middle we would then position ourselves into a line to create a shadow on the wall of a person with three sets of arms, to convey the feeling of trying to heal even bigger. We created this shadow pattern during filming the video for our piece, playing around with the LED-lights. We then move from the line to a diagonal row mimicking the movements of walking the tightrope. We wanted to some how have the moment of falling very strong, but didn't want to just fall on the floor, it was sort of used already. So, Chloe thought of, perhaos we should 'fall' to the wall, creating a loud thump-sound and creating a climax to the piece. This also gave a stronger JO-HA-KUY, this being the 'HA or 'middle' of the piece.