Teatr Nowy and Complicite both had such big themes of possession in their performances that we decided possession would be a good theme to us follow also. I had the idea to have someone in a huge dice, and the dice being rolled by by 'spirit bailiffs' (otherworldly bouncer types), the dice lands on a number corresponding to the player sitting opposite the audience and behind the dice and the demon inside gets birthed from the dice sprawling out onto the floor. The ‘demon’ then begins to posses the player on stage by laying itself on top of the player. This idea was really exciting but we could not find a cardboard box big enough to fit a person in and use as a dice.
Being present, whilst representing nothing
Researching into the company La Gaia Scienza we found out that they used the concept of ‘being present but representing nothing’. We found this idea interesting and decided to use it in our final piece As our movement’s were big it was hard to keep our faces expressionless so we decided on the idea of using white expressionless masks
Geometry
There was a;ot of geometry used in our research companies, especially in La Gaia Scienza one that managed to get my attention was where the performers were using each others weight to balance and make an interesting geometric position. We tried to re-create this by laying in a square with our arms pushing our bodies up, and our feet on the floor with our knees bent. We then, one at a time put our heads on the knees of the person closest to us and took our arms off the floor and created a balance. This was really fun to create and practice, however it proved challenging holding the balance for even a short period of time, so we decided not to use it in our final piece, we did however gather inspiration from this, and created a bicycle running scene between Talia and Dasha using the same properties of geometry and leaning.
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