Today we looked at contact improvisation and spent some time in pairs having a bit of practice with just improvising and playing with it. We then added the idea of sharing weight between each other to add more complicated moves. After playing around with it I don't think I fully get how things like contact improvisation come to look so good and I don't think I have mastered the art of it.
We then created a piece of physical theater around one of our previously discussed ideas of slavery. We incorporated the idea of four feelings (confusion, anger, sadness and fear) that you would probably feel in the situation of being enslaved. We then had a movement piece about three of us emotions try to escape but get struck down by the two guards leaving the last one to be dragged to the front and be "set free".
I like our piece, I feel it holds potential to go further and become something really cool. We never got round to adding contact improvisation but next lesson we can develop and add some to it.
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