Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Group Movement Impro - notes on watching the video

The performers mime being relaxed in a cafe.  Surf Rider plays.  Every time the music stops they jump into action.  The first time they're teetering on the edge of a tall building, the second time they're being pinned to the floor by an invisible attacker.  The third time someone is trying to get them to show their face and they're struggling against it; the fourth time they are trying to speak/communicate but can't say a word.  The final and fifth time they are trying desperately to touch someone who is out of reach.

Notes:

  • Contrasts in tension need to be greater between relaxed and physically tense sequences
  • Defined, stylised movement to mark the transitions
  • Does it actually need a narrative?
  • Should they be inhabiting their own isolated world throughout?
  • The mundame action could be more stipulated, precise.  For example, Uta is reading a book.  At times she is concentrating on the words and living in the world of the book - then her mind slips/skips to how she as an individual is feeling: alone, lost, panicking she will be on her own forever.  Or perhaps her mind is literally going back to that moment or forward to that fear that she will one day... throw herself off a building, be attacked/murdered, not be able to reach anyone she loves...
I should ask my performers 'In which solitary action do you lose yourself?'
Clean answers preferred

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