First Rehearsal for a New Performance Piece.

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The water it is like a machine. sharp searing sound breaking siren feathers

I am doing the first showing of my new performance piece Scream Away on Saturday as part of the Poolside Emergency festival at The Bluecoat. The middle section of the performance is a slide show and above is one of the images that I will be using. Creating the right images for the piece has been a difficult task. I started by re-creating a Cindy Sherman style image that captured 101 questions and emotions, but I was mortified at the result. After speaking with Gavin who I am collaborating with on this project I refined and filtered the ideas

Last week I was in a very successful run of Broken Biscuits by Tam Hinton at Studio Salford. It is very satisfying to go from one performance to the next. However I am not enjoying all the lines that I have to learn!

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A new year, a new decade a new approach. It is difficult sometimes when working creatively to keep a balance between creativity, money and rest. This year i hope to get to grips with this. So January the 4th and i’ve gone straight into the performance space at The Bluecoat to play and experiment as i am starting the process of developing a new piece of work.

I made a couple of important discoveries today. The performance is about two things;

1950′s – Amphetamines and weight loss, body image, perfect plastic
contemporary – club/rave culture, the dance floor, ecstatic dance and euphoria.

Feel like i’m returning to the work that i started with my MA, which perhaps i shyed away from before.

Below is a picture of the set that i am going to use. It is a lot of space running around the space with this behind me!

The thought that i have been left with after today’s rehearsal is to remember cliches at this stage aren’t a bad thing you have to remember to work through them.

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