Rehearsal notes #4

REHEARSAL 4

Today we created and rehearsed the gas attack section of our piece.

Myself and Laure began with a warm up, and then ran through all the different sections of our piece. this really helped me as I seemed to have forgotten a few things here and there. We also smoothed out and refined the airplane section of our piece to make it more clear and readable to our audience. We also watched some videos on youtube to help inform our understanding of gas attacks.

Here are are small selection of things we looked at:

We wanted to include some religious references in our piece so therefore we combined the experimental movement we came up with in today's rehearsal with the clearest and simplest physical representation of religion: The cross.

In order to create a transition between our previous movement and the gas attack section, we had the idea that the soldier whom is about to be gassed (me) can be physically preparing for war.

Our thought process behind this was that a soldier dressing, and preparing themselves for war could also symbolically represent a young man preparing himself to die. We want our audience to subliminally anticipate the soldier's death.

What went well: Lots of improvised material was created in today's rehearsal!

How we can improve: Next rehearsal I will ensure that myself and laure do not distracted from our work by other people.