Forming a group!
Call it a disadvantage or an advantage there was a basic reality we had to face while planning our collaborative piece. There wasn't much choice in group. As a class of 5 theatre students ( we initially started out as 7 but lost 2 members to the transitive nature of our school).
As we had started out as fresh-faced theatre students all together, we decided to do this project together as well. I mean, that's what an ensemble is, isn't it?
We took inspiration for our starting point from an International Organization. We chose to perform on the theme of 'light'. This came from the UN's International Year of Digital Light.
To see all the research done on this, please refer back to older journal entries.
To kickstart the project, we all started brainstorming what light could mean to us. To me, lights were:
Call it a disadvantage or an advantage there was a basic reality we had to face while planning our collaborative piece. There wasn't much choice in group. As a class of 5 theatre students ( we initially started out as 7 but lost 2 members to the transitive nature of our school).
As we had started out as fresh-faced theatre students all together, we decided to do this project together as well. I mean, that's what an ensemble is, isn't it?
We took inspiration for our starting point from an International Organization. We chose to perform on the theme of 'light'. This came from the UN's International Year of Digital Light.
To see all the research done on this, please refer back to older journal entries.
To kickstart the project, we all started brainstorming what light could mean to us. To me, lights were:
stars in the sky
lightbulbs
led lights
light imaging from space
lens flare
street lights
celebration with lights
After a lot of deliberation, we realised it was time to start experimenting. Taking inspiration from other shadow company groups, we wanted to see what our bodies could make in shadows
Some things worked some didn't. But at least we were getting an idea of our limitations and our capabilities. Doing shadows was quite a big risk since none of us had ever done it before and we saw ourselves exhibiting the 'risk-taker' trait in the IB learner profile and using it to improve our ATL Communication.