Session 4

Me and Sky were able to rehears our live art piece today as this was our main rehearsal we were able to get allot done and we both feel confident with the idea of our art piece and happy with the movements we have chosen towards the piece.

Showing the piece to an audience we were as actors and performers able to get an outside perspective of the piece.
What will you do next?
Next we would like to sharpen up the routine and make the moments fluid and make sure we are ready for the show.

What useful advice/suggestions were made?
There were a few comments that ii think were great advice for the show such as it seemed like the piece you could see colors blending together this lead me and sky to suggest wearing different colors to allow the illusion of this.
also we were given the suggestion of not having music but maybe having natural sounds such as waves or wind.  do really think this was a great idea to and we have chosen some music to fit the piece better.

What costume, props do you need to gather/find?
In the performance we have decided to bring in my portable speaker to allow the sounds of the environment we are also thinking of getting different color changing lights to go with the colored costumes.

What are you trying to communicate?
In the piece the main idea is of support through movements t does not  necessarily have to be a relationship it allows the audience to make an interpretation


The Whole group piece 

Letting the actors look at the piece of art before you start trying to make a piece of art is useful as i was able to think of what the painting meant to me and what i believed it meant all while i was doing these other activities it was thinking in the back of my head. 

The idea of experimental i think of trying to show theatre in a way that isn't normally thought of so it is idealistic if we work on task involving that for example pretending you are different elements but not talking but trying to show what element you are through movement instead 
the exercise really made you explore movements as you cant instantly know what an element is going to move like so you have to explore and it may take an actor a while to find their view of the right movements.


A great idea was watching the movements of the plastic bag and getting into small groups to explore the idea of copying an inanimate object   watching this bag drop to the floor and just watching the fall and the unfolding of the bag then putting  our bodies in a way to recreate movements in groups it was weird thinking how the audience could see the work as we were moving in non humanistic ways and trying to give the bodies different textures.i learnt that taking a back look on the work we are doing and viewing it as a audience member can change the way you want to work and piece a bit together when devising.

session 3 / group live art

The idea of support and how you can be tied together in multiple ways and support each other from anywhere

session 2

Exploring different ways a body can tell a story to an audience is a great way for an actor to develop their skills

For warm ups I think a simple object such as a mountain for the class to create was a great way to get everyone engaged and the idea that as actors we were not allowed to talk is a great way for them to engage their minds and it personally allowed me to step out of my body and think of new movements to try to make it more experimental.

We engaged with each other to make the mountain and we were successful as coming together as one object.

Leading on from one task to the next with links between the activity to get us to do a harder version of the first task I always think works well as you have already introduced us into the task and now we have to adapt and stretch our abilities to fit the level of the task

Create all these images as one and only physically but also show emotion at the same time and disaster as an actor personally believe it is one of the funniest and most successful exercises we have done so far, as loads of actors rely on voiice but taking that ability away and then working with such a large group on one thing can be challenging however I don’t think we found it hard as we were already emotionally connected to the task and prepared through breathing warm ups we had done.

The last image being a playground and we had to imagine the image coming to life in the future allowed the actors imagination to take control of the story and after discussing what each of the images we had in our heads we found out a lot of the stories were tragedy and when asked why I believed it was because we were asked to perform in slow motion and the fact we had slow paced music on in the back ground , opened the mind and made people relate to sad stories. 

first lesson

When starting a work shop it s always good to start with some warm ups for example today starting with

A physical warm up in silence
Big small twist
and minimal contact with the floor

These exercise get your body ready for a lesson as it is the morning and your body is most probably still asleep.Doing it in silence i believe is more effective as you take away from the urge to talk and anything happening in your mind just stops and you just focus on the lesson and objectives you have been told.

Next the alphabet box i personally saw as a bit of fun as it allowed us to be silly with it how ever it was still a performance Starting off by dong it by your self and building on such a simple idea of spelling your names then putting different objectives or diversions to allow the piece to build is a great idea as it is much more simple for an actor when building something small and slowly building it.

These then performing them to the class in groups of three with music. Me as the performer , personally i did not noticed when the music stopped or started and  believe this is how it is meant to be , as you are meant to be indulged into the performance its self not whats happening around you.

But however watching them is a different story many of the class said they were finding stories from the pieces while watching others and creating ideas in there mind to what they could mean. But for me i was having trouble doing that as i just saw movements all put together and not a story i don't know why but they were still great.

Tate modern trip

   

 Giorgio de Chirico  

Born in Greece worked in Italy 

Made of paint on a canvas 

The themes of the picture are dreams and it is surrealist 

This painting inspired me because when I first looked at it , it brought me into a new world like a dream

I think from this piece I got the idea of women having envy for men and we could use that as a platform for a piece of work 

      

    

A mi voix 

Dorothea tanning born and worked in USA 

Paint 

Surrealism , gender 

When looking in the museum I couldn't stop looking at it , every time you turn back to look you discovered a new part of the picture

In the picture diffrent human parts are placed but not in the right order my idea for a piece was having some one who was born but did not have them in the right place.

Eva Rothschild 

Riches 

Plastic wood and fibre glass 

Maze , stuck some where , complexity ,shape 

Looking at the complexity even though it isn't much but the was it looks hanging on a wall and the 3d viewing expiernce. 

For ideas of work I think of a maze and being trapped when looking at this piece.

Henry Wessel 

Incidents 

Photographs 

Theme of the piece was american life but this picture on its own reminds me of being lonely but having serenity 

Just looking at how simple the picture is spoke to me and saying it dosnt have to be complex 

Ideas for a piece, would be one person just by them selves talking about them selves 

Lynda Benglis 

USA 

1969-1975 

Lead. Polyurethane foam 

Themes of the piece were waves . Unpredicatbility 

When looking at the piece I see how humanity waste materials most of the time and I also thought this could be the base of a piece