Dance - 17/04/12

Today in our dance lesson, we watched a few clips of performances and we had to guess which ones were physical theatre or not. Whilst watching the clips I thought I got the hang of it, and thought I had the right answers down, but when we went over them I had got 2 wrong. I feel I should research more about physical theatre however I did learn quite a bit from that lesson.

Company                          Choreographer                     Physical Theatre?
Foose                                   Rob Foose                                     No

Phoenix Dance Street           Darshan singh bhullir                        Yes

Royal Danish theatre               Glen Tetley                                    No

Cirque Du Soleil                     Andrew Watson                            Yes

Tanz Theatre                            Pina Bausch                                 Yes


In our next lesson, we sat in a circle and was handed a piece of paper each. We each had to write down any occupation, fold the paper over and pass it along, then we had to write a location anywhere in the UK, fold the paper over and pass it along. Then we had to write down a title of any song and do the same, then we had to write down a saying or a phrase, also fold the paper then pass it along. Once we had done this we got into groups, and read the list of things that we had on our paper. We then got given a large piece of paper and had to write down a connection from one character to another. This will help us with our introduction of physical theatre.

Whilst working in our group we wrote down what types of things we could include into our introduction, we added dynamics and changing from one character to another. After a short while and frustration we came up with a short introduction piece that involves, a book, head phones and 2 helmets. These are the props from our characters. An Italian Teacher, Builder, Police Officer and a song writer.

We found coming up with the introductory piece quite hard to come up with at first, we didn't know how to start or finish; no clue at all. The purpose of the lesson before was to help inspire us for our physical theatre piece, but at the time we didn't think of using what we watched. I think to overcome a total loss of what we are doing, we just need to stop what were doing and think about what we have learnt in previous lessons that could help build a piece.