skills workshop three versatile actor dancers-pina bousch
Combined arts skills workshop 3-
In this workshop I explored the combination of dance and theatre through characterisation,voice and dance expression.This was all from the style of the practitioner pina bausch.
One of the main skills that I explored in this workshop was the use of expression.I explored this skill by showing how the person I was playing felt throughout the dance.At the beginning of the workshop We got given a storyline mine and my dance partners was that one of us loved eachover more then the over .As a team we decided we were going to show this to the audience by one being really in love and touchy to the other while the other person is always trying to push the other away.
Another skill I used in this workshop was my imagination and how I expressed that through my movement.For the next workshop we were blindfolded and had are hand tide infront and behind our backs.this was to see if we could dance how pina bousch liked her work by having our arms tied we were restricted as dances we wasn’t able to use are arms in ways we normally would therefore we needed to use our faces and our bodies to show our feelings.I personally found this really difficult as as a dancer the first thing you do is thing about how you could move your arms but we needed to think of different ways to portray our fear.A lot of the skills I used in my sequence where from the theatre peice ‘cafe muller’.by watching some of pina Bausch work in the workshop I felt I was able to fluently move my body continuously and elegantly.
I watched two performances of pina Bausch in lesson with my class. The performances were rite of spring and cafe muller.
After watching Bausch’s work we explore the ideas of fragment movement which are short sudden movements,I looked at the use of repetition which we conveyed in are duet sequence where we had to repeat it 4 times.
Skills workshop video -
Within your blog, you have worked hard on discussing the professional physical theatre company DV8 as well as the Professional Dance Theatre Practitioner Pina Bausch. Across your workshop blogs as well as your compare and contrast blog post, I can see that you have described a few of their works, you have identified and described their style and techniques – culminating into a discussion of how they compare and contrast. You have linked DV8 as a contemporary practitioner and Pina Bausch as a historical practitioner – although you have linked them to other combined art companies and practitioners. You have started to explain how their work is considered as combine arts, at times backing up your point with an example from their work. You have started to explain the effectiveness of their pieces and you have clearly compared and contrasted both of their styles and gave reasons of why they can be seen as similar or completely different
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