HIC Day 1 - Initial ideas

Today we were told the title of our devising piece "Humanity in Crisis" and our groups. My initial reaction to the stimulus was and still is that of intrigue because I feel that the title is definitely open to interpretation and can be applied to a lot of things. So I'm looking forward to exploring all the possible ideas that we could go with.

We also were given some pictures to help inspire us.

My group consists of Ashely, Kyle, Dan, Meg and Toby. We spent most of the lesson jotting down any words or topics that come to mind when we think of the title and put it in a spider diagram.

For the last half hour of the lesson we quickly created a piece using the topics of war and refugees, I feel our main concept was based around civilians forced into a war zone, due to one of the pictures we received for inspiration. We started our piece with Kyle and Toby walking towards each other then meeting in the centre; after they meet they fall to the ground, Dan M and Meg then enter and do the same followed by Ashley and I. We then rise and stand in a line, only to be shot and we fall dead. We then clump together around Ashley and gently sway together showing that we are on a refugee boat, each person slowly peel away from Ashley and make a semi-circle around the room. Ashley then runs to each one of us and we cover our eyes and turn around when he comes to us, this is to symbolise how other countries turn their backs on people when they need help. The fifth and last person hugs Ashely to show that they are the only kind country who is looking out for others. I feel that for a rushed piece it came together really well and is a possibility to use it in our final performance. I think we could develop it further and make the movement more fluid, I would also add a bit of music to it. The last bit however I would change so that we are more hostile towards Ashely as that is how a lot of countries react to begin with.