IPP1 'Transformation' work in progress...

Following a while back with my stimulus I had for that 'transformation' tree I liked so much in a performance I saw, I've decided to use it as the theme for my piece, the theme of 'transformation', that's what I've named it. I've also used it to have as scenery. I originally thought I want my piece to be site specific in a woodland area surrounded by trees and leaves on the floor, but then I thought how interesting it would be to bring that to the stage, and make it so it's deliberately fake with cut out shaped trees and leaves on the ground, quite an abstract effect.

In the studio today I worked on a sequence of moves I could potentially put in for my project. It's the technique that Glenn showed us in one IPP1 class. To think of some adjectives and make it into one continuing static phrase.

I want to put some of these moves of these vids to my dance piece of 'Transformation' somewhere. I'm also debating whether to say the words aloud for my piece.

Thoughts and feedback would be nice :)





Above are videos of examples of material I developed in the space, purely improvised.




















Comments

  1. Emmie16 February 2012 at 15:04

    I reckon the idea of cut outs of trees and leaves would be great especially if you could do lots of small ones and put them on the wall in the space somewhere.

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