Refining

This session we went through and refined all the work we had created. We spent a lot of time devising the beginning so we had a strong group opening. This opening involved one by one starting to enter the space and speak about 'when I think of world war 1 I think of...'. Then a track of recordings of veterans and students from the school speaking about what they thought of world war 1. When we hear this we exit the stage leaving the couples on-stage ready to begin their duets. This is a strong opening and leads really smoothly into the couples duets, which are really dynamic and powerful pieces of work.

We also added in another section which me and partner had in our duet into the final piece. This involved walking up to the soldier and tracing their outline. This piece was meant to represent a women smartening up her husband and saying goodbye to him before he leaves for war. It is a very simply gestural piece but if everyone commits to the emotional content behind it, it could be really powerful.

The rehearsal was hard, people couldn't focus very well on what we were doing and it took a long time to get through all the pieces. When we got to the end we realised we needed to fill the women's boxes with letters for the end section so me and another student volunteered to address, tea stain and stuff 100 or so envelopes for this section. This is the sort of envelopes we made except the final ones were plain white without the airmail stripes.