example supporting notes for drama and theater studies on devised piece, physical theater style
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Our style-
We decided to delve deeper into the realm of physical theatre for our devised creative adaptation. The main reason for this was our success in unit 2 were we used Frantic Assembly, an innovative physical theatre group, as a Practitioner. We now want to work on the basics that we learned last year but also extend our skills to more challenging and advanced physical movements and sequences. Now that the shackles are off we are interested to look into other physical theatre practitioners such as ‘PUSH’ who use a much more a Dance weighted style of physical theatre which is evident from watching their promos of ‘tight pants’ and ‘kung-fu’ on their website. Another group that we looked at are ‘Volcano Theatre Company.’ This is because Frantic claim that ‘Volcano were a massive influence’ for them. This is evident when watching ‘volcano’ show like ‘LOVE’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet.’
We still intend to keep a very frantic style of physical theatre because we see the dialog as important as the movement but also because of the level of skill we have built up over the last year when it comes to frantic movements.
Physical Theatre is going to give us the opportunities to explore sensitive topics like death and suicide in a more expressive way, feeding ideas straight into our performance. ‘By remaining unsaid they offer rich pickings of choreographed physicality.’ By this I mean we can display a characters desperate love for her dead ex-boyfriend without telling the audience because often these are the kinds of feelings that people keep to themselves and don’t share.
Our main inspiration for this performance came from an activity we did at the start of our devising processit started with 2 activities:
World map – set an imaginary world map out on the floor and then go to your favourite place, least favourite place, the most beautiful place, birth place, place here you live, parents birth place.
Important moment – place a seat in the centre of the
Our style-
We decided to delve deeper into the realm of physical theatre for our devised creative adaptation. The main reason for this was our success in unit 2 were we used Frantic Assembly, an innovative physical theatre group, as a Practitioner. We now want to work on the basics that we learned last year but also extend our skills to more challenging and advanced physical movements and sequences. Now that the shackles are off we are interested to look into other physical theatre practitioners such as ‘PUSH’ who use a much more a Dance weighted style of physical theatre which is evident from watching their promos of ‘tight pants’ and ‘kung-fu’ on their website. Another group that we looked at are ‘Volcano Theatre Company.’ This is because Frantic claim that ‘Volcano were a massive influence’ for them. This is evident when watching ‘volcano’ show like ‘LOVE’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet.’
We still intend to keep a very frantic style of physical theatre because we see the dialog as important as the movement but also because of the level of skill we have built up over the last year when it comes to frantic movements.
Physical Theatre is going to give us the opportunities to explore sensitive topics like death and suicide in a more expressive way, feeding ideas straight into our performance. ‘By remaining unsaid they offer rich pickings of choreographed physicality.’ By this I mean we can display a characters desperate love for her dead ex-boyfriend without telling the audience because often these are the kinds of feelings that people keep to themselves and don’t share.
Our main inspiration for this performance came from an activity we did at the start of our devising processit started with 2 activities:
World map – set an imaginary world map out on the floor and then go to your favourite place, least favourite place, the most beautiful place, birth place, place here you live, parents birth place.
Important moment – place a seat in the centre of the