Our devising process has become very text based. It informs all the movement. We used the idea of having an object help the movement development. We having be playing with the idea of having lots of poppy petals in apron pockets in our piece and we pick them up and crumble them out of our hands to enhance some of the gestural movements. This works well and often seems like the poppies are representing bloodshed and tears in the way they move.
We decided on the narrative, slightly different from the poem, where there is a romantic relationship between a woman and a soldier who has gone away to war and she doesn't know where he is. We explore this idea of post traumatic stress disorder, but in the women. The angst of a woman awake at night missing the man she loves who could be in great danger. We convey this through floor motifs. It worked really well as a starting point to lie on the ground with our eyes shut and physically show we were having a bad dream. This meant we were wriggling on the ground, screaming, hitting the ground. These informed the final movements we created.
As we are a female pair our piece is only representing a female story about world war 1. This is the part of the war me and my partner thought it be interesting to represent. This is because world war 1 was such a pivotal moment in changing the world for women, it is important to know how, why and what those women went through to make the world the place it is today.
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