For one of our devised performances that we worked on, we looked into getting influences from a picture or a piece of media.The piece that we were given to work from was the painting by Picasso called Gernica. It was a painting that was based on the events of the Gernica War.
My first impressions of the paints, was how dynamic it looked, this was due to how much was going on in the picture, as there were faces coming out of all directions with a variety of pained faces. From this as a class we discussed all the different possible movements that could reflect these feelings. I thought that strong movements, with really clear facial expressions would be good to show of this theme.
We started to get our group dances ready by learning a phrase that we could include into our smaller groups, in different variations. This phrase was very floor based and had some very fast paced movements in it, i think that this worked well to show off the theme of war, as it made all of the dancers looked panicked.
We then got into smaller groups that we would be performing in. I was really happy with my group as i thought that we could work together to show some really strong emotions in the piece. We started off by thinking of a strong opening section to our piece. The best one that we came up with was to have all of the actors running into the stage as if they were trying to get away from something. This i think looked effective and worked well going into our next section, which was a section of freezes that show our characters emotions.
When it came to including the taught phrase, i wanted to change it up when putting it into our dance as i thought that i would fit better with the style of dance that we were following, with was a bit more physical theater. We performed this phrase in canon, with each other, and it also made the dance longer.
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