What did we do?
This workshop lesson was purely centred around rehearsing and fine tuning the performance of the ritual chant in which consumerist ideals of England were put into a bonfire. As an ensemble, we shaped the ideas we had drawn together in previous workshop lessons and drawn upon new ideas where we could increase the professionalism of the chant in itself. We came up with the idea of repeating the phrase "Going, going, going" in order to build the tension of the materials being thrown into the bonfire. We also decided from the material we had accumulated for performance, to physicalise the elements of "earth", "wind", "fire" and "water", using the diverse range of our bodies for which we had learnt to control entirely from the lessons on Jerzy Grotowski and his devising techniques and practises.
What Went Well?
In devising around the basis of the "ritual chant", learning off each others tips and ideas for performance, we were able to make the "chant" expressive and believable for an audience. This process challenged our creative initiative as performers and makers of theatre but also shaped our understanding of how we as an ensemble were able to express and share useful, in depth ideas for showcasing a moving performance through experimenting with various ideas and stimuli.
Even Better If?
Instead of focusing the entire workshop lesson around the "ritual chant", as an ensemble we should have varied our devising time in order to improve the belief in the rest of the piece. At this point, we were not ready as a group to perform our experimental devised performance due to the fact that we had spent far too long discussing ideas rather than putting them straight into practice. As a group, we knew at this point that we had alot to do in order to express the full potential of our experimental performance.
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