Double - F(l)ight - Blog 3 - 25/05/16

Today, we began properly staging some movement for our Fight or Flight piece. We started to build up which relationships we want to express and what route we want to take our piece.

We began the lesson watching a video James, Rob and I found which features a lot of combative physical theatre. The video was the music video for Try by P!nk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTCDVfMz15M). This video gave us a lot of inspiration for movement and we will probably use similar techniques in our performance. We also watched a few videos of adverts for equality which is a topic which we feel confident about basing our piece about. The way we linked this to the stimulus is thought of fighting against discrimination or running away from an issue staring us in the face (flight). Below are the adverts we watched:

• Respect - TV Commercial 60 Seconds: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjBfU-bfGII)
• "The Invisible Discriminator" - Stop. Think. Respect. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvTyI41PvTk)

We also took note of which songs we thought would work well to create physical theatre movement to. Below are the tracks we found:

• Sound of Silence - Disturbed
• Down With The Sickness - Disturbed
• Try - P!nk
• Faint - Linkin Park
• Numb (Opening) - Linkin Park
• Dark Necessities (Opening) - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

We then started on an opening to our piece whilst keeping the theme of Discrimination in mind. We used the intro to Dark Necessities by RHCP for our introduction. Below is our movement we came up with:

• James is laying in the centre face down and the rest of us are laying around him. After each beat of the music, we, in canon, grasp the air above us, slide away from James and turn so we are kneeled by him.
• Once everyone has rise, we all slide forward in the same position, Ollie and I, keep control of his legs and the others pull him up so he rises like a pencil.
• Ollie and I grab underneath his arms whilst Charlie and Rob kneel down opposite each other so their legs are steps for James to walk on. Mean while, Lorna and Rhiannon stand in front of Rob and Charlie.
• Ollie and I support James so he can step up onto Rob and Charlie's legs. He reaches over Lorna and Rhiannon but they push him back without looking. James then falls back and Ollie and I catch his top half while Charlie and Rob catch his legs.

Below is the video for this scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byrjrxdtqXs

We then got into groups (James, Charlie/Rob, Ollie, Rhiannon/Lorna, Lewis), created a relationship between each other and devised a physical theatre/dance section together.

Lorna and I wanted ours to be a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship where the male is being abused by the female. We chose this because it's usually an unspoken version of domestic abuse and we felt it doesn't get enough coverage. We haven't been set on a song yet but we like the sounds of Because Of You by Kelly Clarkson and Love The Way You Lie Part II by Rhianna due to they're linking lyrics and they're variety in dynamics.

Below is the movement we have so far:

• I start behind Lorna and stroke her face but she shrugs me off. I then hold her waist and she did a head roll into walking away.
• I walk towards her but she raises a hand, I then try again then she crosses her arms at head level and turns towards me.
• She turns away and I attempt to embrace her but she rolls pass me (Round-By-Through - Frantic Assembly) and we end up back to back.
• I lean backwards and she holds me up with her body (Weight Distribution - DV8). She then flicks we off, I turn and she kicks me.

Next lesson, we will work on completing our dance section.