Class performance rehearsals

Class performance rehearsals  

We have started to devise our performance in our class, we include most of the exercises we've been using over the past few weeks such as emotional riffing, soup,breath and Butoh. 

We've added a few new sections like the push, hold, 180 degrees exercise. I really enjoyed this section because it showed how humans can be very cruel to each other and will hurt others just to benefit themselves. We had to ignore any feeling we had towards eachother and just have one objective, to push or pull theses other people down. We had to focus purely on that objective. We had to be very careful not to hurt each other too much and be aware of our surroundings.

This became the section that would transition into the bodies in Auschwitz part. From the push, pull, 180 exercise we started to pull each other down onto the floor and if we got pulled down we had to stay there and be a dead body. We watched a clip from a really good documentary about Auschwitz after the war had ended and the soldiers were being called in to inspect the concerntration camps. What they were met with was not pleasant, people had just died where they were standing and the remaining prisoners were forced to live among these dead bodies. The soldiers had to clear out all the bodies and dump the all into a hole in the ground with hundreds of others to be buried, we showed this during our piece by dragging the people who had fallen across the room and putting them into a pile then moving them into another space and duping them there.
I really liked this section because I felt it gave a really powerful message to the audience, it was showing how as humans we are selfish and we will look out for ourselves by any means nessecary, even if that means hurting people who trust us. It was quite challenging trying to remain limp and look dead because not everyone who was lifting us was very aware of our safety. When we were in the pile it was quite uncomfortable but we had to stay completely focused and still.

Everyone got given a piece of text to learn for the Guantanamo section. The girls were the wives of men who had been kept there and they have to tell their stories to the audience as they're guiding them  round the room. The boy are the prisoners who are crouched on the floor with their hands behind their back as if being restrained. We had to make the audience sit on the boys backs after we tell them the wives story so they can hear the prisoners point of view.