BTEC Perfoming Arts - Logs

Antigone is a tragic play: exhibits many saddening events and centres the downfall of one main character. This downfall can be represented with the metaphor of a machine. It shows how after a certain number of actions have been made the consequences of those actions are too large and the play reaches a point of no return in which the machine of tragedy begins to work and not stop, pulling in and ruining the lives of many of the characters, especially the protagonist or 'tragic hero'. In this lesson we created a piece of physical movement with the use of sticks to show this 'Machine of Tragedy'. The way we did this was everyone was to think of a profession and create a short mime for that profession, one that could be looped. We then made this movement larger and more fluid, experimenting with levels and sing different parts of the body. Once we had our short fluid movement we were put in pairs and had to incorporate our two movements without speech, completely impr...

Log for the first part of the residential: Here is the video of the piece my group created, amalgamating the material collected from the morning's exercises. It is an abstract sequence movements that shows Antigone's fight for what she believes in. On the evening of the first day, we took part in an incredibly immersive role play, in which we were all given characters and were to act within those characters for at least 3 and a half hours in the scenario of being locked in a dungeon. This experience was a really interesting way of exploring a character, feeling the true power of their emotions, feeling the way that that influences their actions and how their actions affected the course of the role play. I was given the character of Myriam, a young lesbian muslim from Iran, situated in the dungeon on her search for her lover who was imprisoned for killing the guards that were sent to kill Myriam due to her sexuality. After the role play, I felt I had an incredibly st...

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