Single - Site Specific - Blog 5 - 25/04/17

Today we worked on adding the other group to the short movement piece we devised last lesson.

We began by simply filling in the gaps we already had and making slight adjustments:

• We filled in the gaps in the square formation using the other group members. Ollie K stood between me and Lorna, James stood between me and Kat, Ollie M stood between Kat and Hope and Rob stood between Hope and Lorna.
• Now that there were more of us, timing needed to be changed for the crossing sections. Instead of each pair going on every 2 beats, we changed it to 1 beat to make it more frantic and to fit with the music so the rest of the timing could stay the same.
• Now that there are more of us, we thought it'd be better if we recorded our own version of the "Satanic Matra" as this could let us change the tone when we want to and allows us to edit some sections if we'd like to distort a line or two. This is a more realistic idea now that there's eight of us rather than previously having four.

We then went over the end of the piece but felt it didn't work very well due to having too many of us all doing the same thing so we devised something new:

• From grouped in the centre, Ollie K, Ollie M, Rob, James and I go to the back while the girls stay at the front in a line. They perform tap-like ritualistic routine while the rest of us do a lift...
• Rob and James lift up Ollie M by the feet in a pencil lift and Ollie K and I, link arms behind them.
• Ollie falls backwards into our arms and we arrange ourselves to lift him up in a coffin carry.
• We then all drop him except Ollie K who swoops in and carries him in his arms and lays him down behind the girls. We wanted this to represent the "possession" of Betty.

This adaptation to our previous physical movement went very well and ran nicely after a few run throughs. Next lesson, we will read through scene one and decided how we want to perform our version of The Crucible.