I would like to encourage everyone to please comment on how they received, perceived, enjoyed, interpreted the work on Thursday.
Any ideas for possible development and improvement would be greatly appreciated. Highlight any strengths/weaknesses.
Your comments are most valuable and will influence the development the work for the next performance.
Feel free to throw tomatoes. I can take it.
1. I liked the boy in the tie - no bias
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Good audience appeal, and definitely an improvement on the first work.
Bravo sou!
http://twinkletwinkle.co.za/reviews/1-ballet/64-baxter-dance-festival-retrospective
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Hi Thalia!
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Comment on your piece:
I loved it, overall, a whole lot lot. It was so refreshing to see something this light and humourous that still made you think about what you were seeing. You had me laughing from beginning to end, and it was a good thing I had not sound coming out of my mouth (My voice was gone) or they probably would have kicked me out of the theatre.
Some themes that i felt came accross strongly were:
awkwardness (like when you're new at a party)
desparation for intimacy (you want people to like you)
insecurity (makes you do stupid things to get attention)
loneliness (when you get no attention)
Overall, I thought the individual sections were a little to extended, and others have commented that the transisions between them could have been more fluid... Having said this, I do think that the abruptness of some of these transitions highlight the awkwardness of not only the inter-performer relationships, but also the performer audience relationships. The audience is place in a position where they HAVE to watch, because they're there, and there is perfect opportunity to play on the awkwardness created by excessive repetition. I think the interpretation and handling of the performer-audience situation can be a little more extreme, so that the dynamic undulates throughout the piece, instead of building and re-building with every separate section, or even just remaining constant.
Highlights were the Celebrate section, which was just so wonderfully anticlimactic - it was awesome!, the cake-duet between Nicola and the boy, which was such a clever slap in the face to all those serious and over-indulgent (boooooring) duets that people love to put on stage and Kathleen left all alone on the jumping castle. She just looked so disappointed! Poor girl.
I really liked seeing non-dancer people on stage, they brought a very refreshing and interesting dimension to the piece. I think it will be a really cool idea to do a similar project with all non-dancers.
Further than that, I have nothing for now, but will add something if i can remember.
Love you Thallibell!
Oh! Right.
ReplyDeleteI remembered. The lowest point in the piece was actually, for me, the part where there was some attempt at dancing (Teagan's part - no offense Teagan, this is not a jab at you! :) ). I felt that it was the closest the piece got to being a dance piece, and ironically the parts where it moved further away from that were more successful. In my opinion, of course.
I think if you are at all interested in adding danced sequences, you should be very careful of falling into cliche movements and typical, recognisable styles. This piece doesn't need anything that will remind the viewer of something they've seen before - that will make them go: "oh, I know what I'm watching now. Phew." They should never get to that place.
That's what I think. Keep them on the edge, wondering, always, whether what they're seeing actually means anything. Baffle them with profound simplicity and unexpected humour.
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ReplyDeleteI liked it as a general work in progress piece, interesting idea, keep the break, keep the speech, more speech, and I would use mature people...the idea of using 65's would be very interesting....
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