Before our workshop we had about an hour of the lesson to
start putting our work together for the performance for Little People’s day. We
developed our sound and movement machine to create a dream machine which would
be put into a section of our performance.
The following stages enabled us to clearly understand how important
it is for the positioning of each of us in order to make this dream machine
look together as one. The positioning was one of the things that we did face
some problems with when creating the dream machine. As most of these short physical
movements of the dreams were actions that varied from picking apples from trees
to using super powers, clashing did occur many times. Some of us ended up interrupting
other people’s physical movements as we were also in quite a tight space. By
taking these problems into account, we were able to thoroughly analyse the spacing
of the movements before joining the dream machine and overcame this problem by
either tweaking the direction of our movement, or by changing the positioning
of our movement.
What were we able
to take from the Frantic Assembly production?
After our first hour, we then were privileged enough to participate
in a workshop led by the Frantic Assembly.
Exercises we participated
in...
·Testing awareness- all standing in a wide circle
while one person made eye contact and walked towards the other person until
they noticed and then continued the cycle by picking another member.
·Testing Timing- Creating a path in which you
follow a partner around a circuit making sure that you are travelling at the same
speed and motion
·Awareness of energies – Choosing a partner as
one of the two keep their eyes closed and place their hands on the other persons
hand while the person who had their eyes open, led them around the room with
just the pressure on the hands leading.
·Start & Stop – with the same partner
creating a cycle of ten different movements including lifts to make your
partner start (running, walking twisting etc.) and then finding a way of
stopping them
· Testing timing – The whole class got into a grid
shaped figure and jumped to the beat of the music and then turned at certain
moments while the next line followed. (certain counts included lifting arms,
body movements within the jumps)
The Frantic Assembly workshop gave us an opportunity to find
more ways of incorporating physical theatre into our final pieces, as a majority
of our performance is based around physical theatre.
By adding emotions to the “start and stop” exercise it gives
us an opportunity to link this into our dreams
as a whole group at the same time.
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