OMG its 5:30am!

Hi all

I love the idea of using masks and tribal dance to show emotions instead of the cliche fight scene, and also the use of animal mask and movements to display humans raw emotions I think would be a powerful statement.

I have also had some idea's (at 5am I woke up and had a brain wave, I had to go and write them down and tell you all about them here). I have been thinking about "what is forensic?", and have the idea of stripping it down for the audience in a series of different sketches.

these can go in any order, and would need more sketches (prob 7 or 8) for a full performance.

I was inspired by Dan's class today, and as such would like to use a sketch based around that, but also the following idea's:

1st sketch:

Question: How do we find evidence?

For this I would subject our audience to their 5 sense's, we take our sense's for granted, and as such by isolating the audience to each of these I would hope to achieve a heightened state of the audiences sense's for the remainder of the performance.
With the stage blacked out:

Smell - we release two smells into the audience, the first one a nice smell that would remind people of a pleasant experience, and the 2nd smell something nasty (we would have to experiment ourselves with this and use Dan's stink machine).

Sound - As above, we play some music that's calming, and another that is dark and gets the heart racing.

Touch - We use different items (feather, hand, brush - any idea's would be great) and touch the audience with them.

Sight - someone enters the stage (still blacked out) with a very narrow beam torch that reveals a disturbing scene of death, but as the torch is narrow beam the audience will only get to take in the information a small piece at a time, and over time they can piece together the whole image of whats on stage in their minds.

Taste - Full lights up this time. Before the audience take their seats we give each member a piece of bread for a communion that will be on stage, this is to signify both taste, but also that with all our sense's now working we can all work as one and join as a group.


2nd sketch:

We all come onto stage and through movement we all form a shape by joining ourselves to one another. Then we brake apart and get one or two members of the audience to put us back into the shape we was (with the audience's help). This exercise will start to put into practice the experiences we have just given them through using their sense's.

3rd sketch:

Based upon Dan's idea, we would all come on stage for the random (linear walk), but we all wear tee shirts that at the end of the piece when we all die we face down, and on the backs of our tee shirts we each have part of an image that when joined together (in sequence) form the picture of a corps.

These are the idea's I have had at 5am (now 6am after taking notes), please let me know of your views, and if you like them we could try to subject ourselves to the 5 sense's test.


Still love the idea of a tribal dance with animal masks though, but going off the idea of gangs for entirety of the performance, I just think we have the chance to be more explorative with our idea's at this stage.


Thanks for reading this, see you all on Friday. X