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Blood Wedding Lesson - 14/09/16

We started this lesson by creating a short series of abstract movements with a partner that represented the feeling of falling deeply in love for the first time. Within these movements we had to keep contact with one another as we went from position to position, so as we went from back to back, to face to face (foreheads touching), down to one knee and back up again for the sequence to be repeated continuously. This was interesting because the intimacy between the pairs from the constant touch portrayed an instant idea of romance and intensity. Within my group we were then able to be creative with the facial expressions, pace and tone of the piece to create a more dynamic and interesting piece. After this exercise we were asked to explore a stimulus: a white wedding dress upon a deep red cloth with a knife on top of it. From this we tried to infer the time, setting and brief plot of the play 'Blood Wedding' by Federico Garcia Lorca. Our initial thoughts were that the play w