Sunday, 25 May 2014
Rehearsal 6.5.14
Our aim for today's rehearsal was to created the second camp life scene - shoe sorting. We had found some old shoes in the costume cupboard in a previous rehearsal (17.4.14). We have decided to use one of techniques we discovered during our workshopping rehearsals - passing the shoes around in a rhythm. However, we decided to do it in a line formation instead. The song we chose to accompany the movement was rose red (the same song from the beginning of the piece) as a reoccurring motif throughout the piece. By creating this scene we also worked out how to link to the next scene - something we had been uncertain of for a while.
Rehearsal 2.5.14
During this rehearsal we created the violin discovery scene and looked on how we can use props throughout the piece of music.
We then reflected on how the week had gone and planned what we would do next week (shown in the below picture)
Friday, 23 May 2014
Rehearsal 1.5.14
I NEED TO:
YouTube convert the coat dancing scene music
Today we worked with rose to create the transition into the gas chamber between daisy, mandi, elsa and James.
Video and pictures (in the next blog)
We then spent the rest of our rehearsal working out becs' Violin discovery:
-sorting
-looking
-cuddling
-James enters
(We didnt have time to finish this so we will be carrying on in tomorrow's rehearsal)
ANGEL THOUGHT : when trying to get happy during the camp life scene, we can repeat the dance we did with the coats but with each other.
Rehearsal 30.4.14
The aim of this rehearsal is to do emotional recall to help recapture the emotion that should be in our performance. Becs and made led this session
1) laying on the floor on a beach, knowing you have to get up.
Feelings:
-reluctance
- laziness
- unwillingness
- sloth
2) happy memories of my grandad
Feelings:
- contentment
- warmth
- love
- happiness
3) imagining the happy memories taken away
Feelings:
- heartbroken
- distraught
- sadness
- teary
During the rest of the rehearsal we:
-Built on alexs workshop idea of clothes swapping sequence for the romantic scene. Leading into gas chamber scene. Hero screams shattering the embrace. Margaret, elle and Ursula get the audience to the balconies.
-Choreographed the meeting scene
-I also wrote up what scenes we had, the order in which they go and where we could have each scene.
Rehearsal 29.4.14
The aim of this rehearsal was to start thinking of our transition between scenes.
James had the idea to have 2 gas chambers:
-Mandi saving
-transition into the court room scene: the audience are put into the gas chamber and then led into the war crimes trial.
We thought that in the scene where Hero is sent to the gas chamber, mandi is saved by James (like in the true life story) but elsa should be beat up by james...This is so that the other guard doesn't guess that he is in love with her.