Saturday, 28 January 2017

Performance Workshop Notes Part 1 17/01/17


Choral Riffing

- Being instinctual. Don't think about what you need to do, just do what you feel is right.
- To use physical communication between each other and use that to start a new thing.
- Don't take the comfortable option because you would be to obsessed to not look like an idiot.
- Don't go with a stereotype idea. (They are a form. We are playing away from form.)
- Let the movement and ideas develop and blossom.
- To push positive energy and we will get to a point of acceptance and no shame.
- Playing to each other boundaries.
- Allowing ourselves to be tested.
- Have the confidence to lead the group and put trust in yourself.
- Full access to my mind.
- Access to our full senses and body.
- Don't block and accept the offers you are given and use that to create a strong ergonomic flow.
- Live in the moment ( the answer).
- When we leave our zone of freedom we return back to our shame.
- Letting go of ego and popularity desire and you need to let that go and be yourself.
- Don't have a set state of mind or belief that you are a certain type of person.
- Atavistic: to be subconscious.
- Allow yourself to be emotionally vulnerable so you can share feelings.
- Work through the grey and accept that we need to discover.

Ganzfeld Effect

With not being able to see and have the music occupy my hearing I felt more exposed and vulnerable than I ever did before. I felt like anything could happen to me or around me and I didn't even know it.
I felt more connected with my sense of touch. With the style of the music I felt like the music was effecting me and that the longer I stayed still my body became more heavy and I took more notice of the flow of my blood and the feeling of pins and needles. My thought process was gone.
Light and shapes would appear and then when you concentrate on it it disappears.


Hofesh Schechter

- The ability to manifest physical portrayals.


Choral Choreography

- When the movement is emotionally connected and locomotive then it becomes interesting.
- The individual has to disappear and let the collective work together.
- Transmutation needs to work.
- You can't let anything outside distract you.
- Being present makes you become timeless.
- Use of levels and dynamics.
- Inspiring choral trust.
- Taking chances and coming out of your comfort zone.
- We accept the feeling.
- Keep discovering until you get what you want.
- By finding your own emotional connection it can differentiate from others.
- Become the observer to help find your instinct.


Overloading Senses

- Sound: pathway- audience member walks down the path and in the other direction the sound travels down the path and passes the moving audience member and then rebounds back to where it started.
- Touch using rhythm and tapping different in places. Have a choreographed rhythm.
- Touch taking turns to pat down the audience.
- To confuse the audience to have heavy metal, give them something sweet, have a fragrance.
- Sight: the use of shadow.
- Noise cancelling headphones and shouting.
- Cohesive torture techniques.
- Having loads of boxes and have lots of different things.

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