Installation View

rehearsal techniques in practice

Attempting Jesus Lift

For Dancers
Slippery ice
Is paradise
For dancers, if their feet are wise .

Essentially Ethel

 

Shout, shout, up with your song

Cry with the wind, for the dawn is breaking

march, march, swing you along

wide blows our banner, and hope is waking.

Song with its story, dreams with their glory

Lo! they call, and glad is their word

Forward! Hark how it swells,

Thunder of freedom, the voice of the Lord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ally Pally

 I did a recky of the location today, here are the photos

Marina

Rehearsal techniques/becoming Ethel Smide

 

Vocal exercise in order to maintain neutral tone of voice: balancing object on head

 

 

Avoiding superfluous movement distracting from characterisation: tie hands and legs to chair.

 

 

 

Characterisation for elderly roles: add weight to the body to change posture and pressure points

 

 

Vocal exercise projecting voice from pit of stomach: pushing against a wall whilst reciting lines.

 

 

Vocal and physical control as before: pushing back against wall.

posture: broom across shoulders (however under garment) to restrict movement

 

As before characterisation for elderly roles, accentuating/affecting/restricting movement of the knee and legs: Attaching knee pads or cardboard to knees.

Construction

Working in the studio I want the lighting rigs and equipment to be exposed, so  that there is a definite space where the illusion is being maintained against the practical elements that sustain the illusion. This is all about the thin line between fiction and reality, the actresses posing as a vehicle for their own fabricated  realities.

My Sanctuary

“I spend so much time giving to other people, giving. This is me and my space on the ice. Its a place of safety for me, its like a sanctuary for me, its like a closet, its somewhere I can get real with myself, its a space I use to pray a lot, I hear from God, or I hope I hear from God, God talks to me, I talk to him, we have a great old moan on the ice, or I’ll have a good praise up on the ice, it all depends, its almost a place where I can get real with myself, I can beat myself up over something I should have done better, maybe last week or yesterday or something, or its a place where I can focus on what I’ve got to do, what I’ve got to think about, its a place I set my own goals, I set my aims, you know long term short term, its a place of consolidation, I can process all thats happened, and I can pray about it.

There are roughly about 714 references to water in the bible its a very key element in Jesus’ ministry he taught a lot by the water. For me water sustains life, it gives life, when you think we can live without food but we cannot live without water, fish for instance can’t live five minutes without water, because they live in water, it sustains them, it gives them life. It pure. Jesus’ first miracle was to turn water into wine, parting of the red sea, all those bits and pieces. Its supplies a need. The earth is made up of about 90 percent water, humans are made up of, alot of water. Its the only essential to life except for breath. You think of waterfalls, its powerful it commands respect, yet it sounds beautiful it looks beautiful, its a source of peace. You look at this complete mass of white because thats what it is when you’re that close to it, amongst that noise there is a beauty, there is a peace. Yet it can give life and take it away.”

preparing the body