When starting out in this creative process we wanted to create a world in which a story could live. We wanted to create something that invites the audience in, and relates to the human experience. We started from the place of movement, and now in this final week of meeting and rehearsing, we will be able to step back and look at what we have created. This will allow us to then dive into those moments that create the world and look at how we can make them stronger. Asking "why"? is an important part in this next step. Why does this action happen? What is my intention? How does this intention relate back to the piece as a whole?
Another fun element for this final week is strengthening our cardio!! We need to just keep running the piece to get used to the expenditure of energy. It's a good tool to look at the piece on a scale of energy used as well as the story line, as it helps to know where you should conserve energy so that you can really give er' in the sections that it is most necessary in order to carry the story.
Another element that is left is the costumes. We began playing around in the wardrobe of Halifax Dance (costumes constructed/designed by Rachael Grant) to get some ideas of what we may want to use. We still haven't completely come to a conclusion here. After watching the piece back at the end of Friday with the finalized music, our ideas for costuming changed. We were originally thinking something fairly uniform that connected us all, but now we are leaning towards something more everyday and human. The connection between us in the choreography is clear enough without making it visually obvious in the costuming. So with this new idea we will move forward with costume ideas this week.
Getting excited for show time!
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