unit 4 combined arts

  In lesson we made small sections for our Pied Piper work. In our groups we has information sheets where we had to put a script together from them. Our research sheets were about the Pied Piper being a 'musician marketer' who in modern day would be seen as an influencer.  When creating our scripts we looked for things that stood out to us and caught our eye's. We wanted our piece to be easy to understand and make sure the audience knew what we were talking about therefore we used a conversational style whilst talking and involved each person in the group.  We looked at DV8's 'can we talk about this' for inspiration. we used the idea of gestures when talking, this helps the audience understand what we are saying more as they can link the words to the gestures.  This is a piece from DV8's 'can we talk about this'. I feel we were fluent with the movements and communication to the audience. we were focused throughout, we had good diction and I felt we w...

  https://onecollege.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/Unit4CombinedArtsPiedPiper/Ec242R8AT9xDlOnrD4dTohcB0a1gWzhw0TlJNYvMGtZSdg We created a piece of our pied piper using the movements we created last lesson in smaller groups. The piece started with mine, Molly, Ella and Joe’s piece. At certain movements of the piece we would add the rest of the class in to add effect and emphasis on those parts. We used DV8’s styles of repetition, physical theatre and bits of dialogue. Most parts have the style of unison whether it was with just my group or the whole class. This requires lots of focus and patience as we all have a lot to learn and we are all learning each others pieces as well. We used a range of dynamics in our voices to add emphasis. In a certain part where we split into 2 groups,1 person says ‘I love my life’ and the other says ‘ I hate my life’. We use the volume of our voices to compete with each other and gradually get louder and louder. I feel there was good focus through the lesson as...

Pied Piper    

 Compare and contrast the ways which two practitioners have combined different art forms ans styles of performance. Style  DV8 use an eclectic range of styles throughout their work these include; pedestrian, contemporary, improvisation and verbatim. DV8's style is similar to Pina Bausch's as as they both use real life experiences, Pina Bausch uses the idea of fear and uses her dancers fears in her work whereas in DV8's work they use verbatim from interviews and puts it into their work.  Movement type  Pina Bausch uses a big ensemble of dancers and uses balletic movements. whereas DV8 use gestural movements to get their point across to the audience. They both use repetition of certain movements in their work to emphasises key themes and ideas. Themes  DV8 create work by using taboo subjects and challenging the 'norm', their work covers; religion, sexuality, culture and dancers with restricted disabilities for example in 'cost of living the main dancer has a restr...

In this workshop I explored the combination o physical theatre (movement, gesture, prop and vocal) in the style of the company DV8. We explored a topical issue of the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 to coincide with today's campaign of black lives matter. This is really prominent as we are celebrating Black History month. We used the styles and techniques of DV8 to combine art forms to create thought provoking factual scenes.  DV8 like to take risks physically and topically by using taboo subjects for example sexuality, religion and tolerance/ intolerance. DV8 use a range of different dancers and even include dancers with disabilities. They reflect of real relationships and real themes at the time, they use verbatim to use the real dialogue taken from interviews. They use gestures, and physically demanding moves and lifts to challenge the 'norm'. They use the relationships between genders, people with different abilities and sexuality's and be able to control and convey th...

DV8  DV8 was formed in 1989 in London by Lloyd Nelson. DV8 like to take risks physically and topically by using taboo subjects for example sexuality, religion and tolerance/ intolerance. DV8 use a range of different dancers and even use dancers with disabilities. They reflect of real relationships and real themes at the time, they use verbatim to use the real dialogue taken from interviews. They use gestures, and physically demanding moves and lifts to challenge the 'norm'. They use the relationships between genders, people with different abilities and sexuality's. Their movements and gestures are episodic.   In 'enter Achilles' (1996) it is set in a shabby British pub and through the use of music, and lighting conveys through movement the cruel exploration of the male psych. The managed to succeed as they did their own research by sitting and observing men in their own habitat in pubs.  In  'To be straight with you' (2009) it explores the themes of toleranc...

 In this workshop I explored the unique art forms in the work created by the key practitioner Pina Bausch.  One skill I explored was the use of expression. At one point I was blindfolded with my hands tied together whilst doing a phrases I created based on a key theme Pina used which was fear, I had to show expression in my body language and by the way I was moving. This made me think of different ways to show expression not just in my face, I feel I did this effectively by moving at different paces and different levels to show fear. This skill is taken from one of her dances 'café muller'. Another skill I explored was movement together. In this duo we put 4 counts of our phrases together to create our piece. We did this in unison. The little section before was us conveying emotion through our expressions I was showing care/love towards Honey and she was showing resentfulness towards me. We used another style of Pina where for example I was the object and Honey was moving my b...