We got to know that our room had
been changed yesterday. To be hinest, me and my whole group was very
bummed out about this, so we didni't do much work that day. We had a
room that we were looking at to do our piece in, but this room was
very small and light, which wasn't anything like our previous room,
that was covered in concreat and had a industrial and dark feel to
it. BY the end of the day, we found a better room. This one still
isn't exactly what we wanted, but it will do in a situation like
this, where we do not have a lot time to devise our piece.
So, today we started in our new room
to try and adapt our already done parts of our piece. There were some
problems immedietly; we didn't have the cupboard nor the glass room
that we had in our earlier room. Good new was, that they were able to
bring the cupborad to our room, so that the first parts of the poem
with Chloe wouldn't have to be changed majorly. Still, the part with
me in the glass room had to be changed and we decided to have it in a
corner near the second exit(see picture below). It won't be as
effective this way, since it isn't exactly responding to this room,
but is something special to our previous one. We will still need to
get back to this bit, since it could be a lot stronger, but for now,
we decided to keep working on our devising for the rest of the poem,
since we fell behind a bit because of the change in rooms.
For now we had devised the first part
and second one complitely, and some of the third part of the poem. We
have been stuck on this part for a bit now, since this the where we
start building up for the climax of the poem, where all the movement
and emotions start becoming more tense and high in energy. Why we
struggled with this was probably because we didn't really know where
to start devising the next movements. We didn't want to continue
using the poem and depicting literally what we are saying, but
rather pull movement from emotions and situations. Simply improvising
movements didn't really work for us, for reason it was just hard for
us to start movement from nowhere.
”and despite and army of friends
who all call him and inspiration
he remains a conversation piece
between people
who can't understand
sometimes becoming drug free
has less to do with addiction
and more to do with sanity”
This parts talks about friends and how
even though people try to understand and see your problems as
something that are in the past, they rarely understand that it isn't
the past, but something you keep fighting for every single day. To
make it easier to create something, we started thinking about
childhood and what kind of games would have represented unity and
friendship. We thought of how as children there was a common game
where everyone holds hands ind a ring and sing a song while dancing
and jumping around in that ring. Since we had already possitioned
ourselves a kind of a circle, it would be a easy transition to just
turn towards the audience, perhaps create a more twisted version of
the game we used to play as children. At this part the poem talks how
the friends of the person call him an inspiration, but then there is
still something wrong with this equation, because he still remains an
item of conversation and perhaps even mockery. In a way this person
is trapped so that he won't ever be able to escape his problems, as
long as people keep talking about them. So this 'playful' circle
turns into a rat race, of a sort, that ends in us all ripping
ourselves free, just fall on the ground. This also scatteres us
around the stage, for our next part in the poem. Unfortunately today
we didn't have more time to go into the next part, apart from
devising a series of movements we would use in the beginning. I will
talk about in the next blog more, since we definitely need to work on
it more in extra rehearsals
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