putting the movement together (bench and shopping lesson 2)

28th of January
In the lesson today we worked on our shopping and bench movements again, improving them and putting them together as well as adding new movement bringing the whole class together into one movement.
we started the piece as individuals doing movement, then went into our small groups and then into a whole group. Although I think the movement will work well I am constantly thinking about spacing as from our visit at the whitgift centre a couple of weeks ago we do not seem to have much space and thinking about having an audience in the space as well reduces the amount of space so we need to keep this in our minds throughout the creative and performance process, however Emma knows the space and is director/leader of creating a site specific performance piece so she knows about the spacing so we need to listen to her and follow what she creates. I did find the creating of the whole group piece a little frustrating because people were not listening meaning that it took a long time for us to create something that could have been created a lot quicker had people been actively listening and concentrating.

The creating and rehearsing of the bench movement today was a lot easier than last week as we were given more performers into our group which although challenging because it meant we had to add people into a movement piece we had previously created for only four performers, it was actually easier in terms of creating the piece because it meant that we had loads of people giving ideas and talking meaning that we did not get to focus on the poem as much therefore we created a more relaxed and less naturalistic piece of movement compared to the structured "making a cup of tea" type piece we had created last week.