Festival Project Journal

 After my tech, we went straight into Courtney's as we're a double bill, so after this was done the rig would be all set up for her performance. So, I stayed in the theatre and took some photos for her as I didn't need to be in warm-up perfectly on time as I wasn't dancing today anyway. I think it was really interesting playing with all the prop and different lighting that physically represented barriers.

 During my tech rehearsal full run, I took some photos of the piece. Because I was still trying to watch, there were a lot less than usual, and the lighting was quite dark, but I'm still glad I got some higher-quality images of the piece as its initial stimulus came from photography.

  As part of practice research for Superficial Thinking, I wanted to return back to my initial stimulus of layered photography and try it out with some of the images that you can see within the piece. I took two of the most recognisable positions from the piece and layered them with the opposite (first image) to represent the two starkly different sides of a self, and a slightly changed version (second image), to represent the slightly different layers of identity that can sometimes blend into one; the layers of a person filter over one another to create every person you know, and I wanted these images to be a representation of being able to see inside of a mind as we're trying to achieve with this choreography. These images will be on display in the reflection space as a representation of the piece.

 Today I took some photos of Daisy's festival contribution during her tech rehearsal. This was really fun as it's a promenade performance that goes around the building so I got to play with different lighting settings. Here are a few of my favourite images from each section.

 Today I went in and took some photos for Courtney's piece, Restricting Space: Navigating Movement, to put in the festival programme. It was really fun to play with props. We went with the top middle one.

Today in our shared rehearsal we shared the pieces we'd been working on and I took some photos of the Year 1&2 lecturer pieces for the programme.  Y1 Lucía: My personal favourite is the Splits one, but we went with the first as it gets the feminist messages of the piece across the best. Y2 Giulia: My personal favourite from these is the walking across the wall at the back, but we went for the last one.

  Today I took photos of my piece for the Fuzion Festival programme, I took photos of the leaning sequence to get across this idea of the dancers supporting each other, as well as because these positions will be recognisable motifs throughout the piece. For the programme, I've gone with the third of these images as I've decided that it will be the starting position of the piece so it gets across the establishing shot.