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Depression affecting my work & progressI think that Giovanna had a problem on her hands from the very beginning of the class as we were all such literal people. We needed to be able to understand what we were doing and why we were doing it. It has been said that an actor can only be guided if they are whole hearted in their creativity ability. I felt that I was restricted in this type of work, as I need a specific direction when working. Also the repetitive frustrations and arguments in class left me disheartened. Movement was the core of the work that we were going to be undertaking. In the first few sessions we spent the time moving around the different spaces, falling and recovering in different ways and areas. We began experimenting with new ideas of how to move the body. We were taught to feel gravity around the body and play with different movements that we would not normally use. The different exercises were relaxing feeling and progressing the way I normally would move, in un-usual ways. In later weeks we began working on dialectic rhythms; allowing our bodies feel disconnected and every bit doing something different at the same time. I felt this linked to what we had previously learned in Butoh and helped me to recr
I therefore sat down to one side and tried to gather my thoughts by watching the others. I flicked through an old school file in which I used to write poems when I was feeling down and depressed. I tried to have my piece consist of dialectic actions between my movements and voice to create suspense for the audience. I wanted for my performance to fit in with the others being this character, so that a general life line of her could have been created by the whole group. When I do not understand the work that I am doing, I do become insecure and am always wondering if I am doing the right thing and am constantly aware of the other people around me. Reading the Grimm stories, I instantly decided upon trying to recreate a strong persona of Snow White's Step Mother. Type of flower: Rose with sharp thornsType of Natural material: A dying tree trunk with little flowers blooming on it. I had to dedicate to the work and try to understand the path we were being led, however this did become frustrating. Also is there a specific style in my acting which highlights these points? Is it better to look at my work from that perspective?For this reason, most of my work was Stanislavski based, however I did try to use Artaudian method, but this was mostly in the initial work when I was trying not to confront my problems, and the similarity in this work. At the end I bit into one of the apples, this could be seen in two ways. The work we were doing in class required an emotional connection with not only yourself but also your class mates; this was encouraged throughout the different lessons. I focused in the aspect that women encounter several difficulties in life with competition towards each other and them proving themselves to the world. The scissors were a representation of her sharp and painful character, and the apples were taken from the story itself as a reconnection method, to link us back to the story. As well as being something I used for comfort when needed, I also used the scarf to take out any impurities I felt about myself.
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