Death Response
During this lesson we focused on developing material based upon the "death" factor in the "Mask of the Red Death" stimulus.
We listened to an audio music file, and had to respond our initial ideas from the music. Below is a mind map of ideas I created, with some developments for performance.
Then as a whole group we collated our ideas and added in appropriate practitioners making sure the ideas were suitable for performance.
Here are all of the different ideas we generated as a company. We aimed to link each idea back to the idea of death whilst also linking in suitable practitioners. In particular the "swansong" idea we chose to develop movement on, we decided to look at different parts of a funeral and in particular the effect death has upon family, friends & society. (Shown in the video link below).
When devising we decided to show to impact and deconstruction of a family after the core member holding everyone together , for instance a grand parent, passed away. This is evident in the video by the first pyramid structure we created to embody one unit and strength.
Next this was juxtaposed by showing the middle section of the pyramid (Charlotte) crumble away. We used Beckett's symbolism to show how the decay and death of the core family member impacted the whole structure in a negative way as each disconnected and fell. This action has connotations of mourning, can't cope, weakness.
The final section of the video exemplifies these connotations as the family members crumble and roll into a line, we began to violently cough and wheeze , we used emotional memory recall to think of a devastating point in our life and to create a cough and chock to represent the point of crying so strongly and wallowing in order to convey the pain and heartbreak of death. Then we try to grasp another, (family member) using strong body language and intensity to show the struggle to grab another and keep the family together after such a tragedy. We then have Charlotte create movement to symbolise her soul travelling to heaven after death.
This movement and stimuli is suitable as its adaptable for a variety of different audiences. The piece we created in the video above can be shown to a younger audience as there is no gore or horror and also an older audience of 20+ as it portrays the impact of death on a family many of which may be parents themselves and therefore can relate to the performance and find peace in the more gentle approach we took in conveying death opposed to other negative, brutal and violent methods as that of Artuad.
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