end of first blog week...

right... ok! so forgot to update yesterday... so a quick summary of yesterdays evens: Commedia Dell'Arte good day all in all re-cap of characters base stances and walks. then the best part of the day,  Acrobatics, falls and slapstick. great fun however woke up particularly stiff in the morning.

Friday's events more research and discussions of the ideas we have... looks like we finally have a source to work from, with defiantly seemed to lift the general mood. then in the afternoon we devised some pieces from random sources that we had brought in for 2/3 minute performances then analysed what was good about them.  a productive and uplifting day.

Adios for now

...And the beat goes on...

second day with designers. much better than yesterday. not so many ideas bounced around but just more of an enjoyable day. looking at costume and how we can incorporate ideas into the costume so that it doesn't have to be just worn but can become part of the set etc...  e.g: looking at 'coping mechanisms' turning that into literal mechanisms like the inside of clocks, cogs, machinery and the like... so a really interesting look into another perspective...  all in all not too bad! Commedia Dell'Arte tomorrow...  until next time, good day to you!

memory: or lack thereof...

most of the updates will be concerned with the memory piece as i am working on that more often than not. today was an interesting one... working with set designers, prop designers and costume designers for this collaborative piece... a plentiful amount of good ideas thrown about... and then discarded!! which i personally found quite discouraging... I'm not used to this method of devising and am finding it difficult to engage with. when i create an idea i like to nurture it, not pass it by and move on... so am opening up new ways of thinking however challenging it may be. Another problem with today was that no matter how good an idea was, if it wasn't agreed upon by the whole group it was cast asunder. so only three ideas have stayed from a whole days work... them being: the use of silks, mirrors and a 'memory box' (whatever that may be.) think that's about all for the update. Caio..