We explored a group movement exercise. It started off with one person in the middle of the room, they would move around the space in straight lines, turning whenever they got to a corner or edge. When someone felt like it they would also join in. Whenever the direction changed the leader changed as well. This became more challenging as more and more people joined in.
After getting the hang of the basic movement exercise we began to change the dynamic of our movement. The leader would control the movement. The idea was to change leader, direction and movement, seamlessly. Almost so an audience member wouldn't be able to tell who was the leader at any given time. Mostly the movements were abstract and play like, with lots of gestural arm movements and over exaggerated walking. This could represent children playing before the war.
We developed this movement on to create a uniformed marching. This worked well as a way of moving on from the child's play movement. It could show a story of children growing up during war. Starting off the naivety and fun and then growing up to fight or to have their brothers and fathers fighting. It shows the child's view of war to the reality of war. This could be a nice exercise to use to develop material to create our final whole year piece.
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