Performance and evaluation

Today we had our performance, which I had mixed feelings about. As our group went to our site we saw an initial problem- there was a show on in the Obie so people were constantly walking through our space and there was a lot of noise. It was also lunch time for the rest of the school so our site was also filled with people eating their lunches, which was a bit annoying at the time, but was fine as lunch didn't end too soon after. When trying to do a full run through it was often disrupted by things and people coming through our space so we were unable to do a full run through which I think effected the links of our final piece.

When doing the piece Ruby and my individual piece went quite badly wrong as we missed quite a large part out, which made it very short. However, I think the noises we recreated were good and they added something more than just words to our piece, which made it more interesting to watch. Yet, I am aware that it was very short and that for some of it we had our back to the audience which would of made it confusing to watch. I know that Ruby and I's individual piece did not fully get there which is disappointing, but I believe it is because we both struggled finding inspiration from where our site was. As Ruby and I leave the site at the end of our piece I was unable to see how the rest of the performance went but I am aware that we should of met up more as a group to make the piece more concrete as I felt like we were all a bit unsure on what we were doing at times.

Lesson five

Today Ruby and I were the only members of our group who were in so we took the opportunity to talk about our individual piece and work on it. We decided to explore being blind and finding love with each other, but then loosing each other. We decided on blindness as the disability we would focus on as   we thought the sounds we had heard around our site during rehearsal periods where similar to those made by a 'white tipped cane'  when touching the ground and other surrounding objects. Therefore we decided to include these sounds at the beginning of our piece, which results in us finding each other. Though we did not get the piece moving much this lesson it was really useful to see where we were with it and to finalise what we were going to do in our piece as the show is next week and I wasn't feeling confident about it at all.

Lesson four

Today we got to our site to find that the majority of the found objects in our site had gone. Though we had not relied on the smaller things, some of the bigger things that had been there for a while had been added into our piece so this was a bit annoying. Luckily for us all the work we had done so far was effected too badly from the change of scenery, and in some places added more inspiration. It also gave us more space as before the corridor was a lot thinner due to the amount of stuff that was there. There was one new object that was significant for Nicolas's piece- which was the one of The BRIT awards statues. We discussed this new addition to our site and from it got that it represented a virtual figure or celebrity, and from this Nicolas could explore the idea of someone being so infatuated with a celebrity or a virtual figure and what this brings with it. I thought this was a very interesting topic as recently I have seen television programmes advertised about this topic.

Over the week Ruby and I were talking about the difficulties that disabled people must face when they are in love or looking for love and so decided that we were going to explore this as our main topic.