Here you can see a table of the different movements we used in our groups movement piece for the La Mer-show. A lot of the different types of movement came from different exercises we did during class, for example the tableaux. In the exercise there would be one person who started the line by positioning themselves in the room, starting the tableaux. Then, the rest would attach themselves somehow to the first person, creating a line. Also, whilst going into their position in the line, everyone would have to travel differently to that place, trying to push themselves to travel in imaginative ways. Then, from this position we had to somehow change the position we were in to fit the personality of our character in the scene we were working on. We transferred this exercise into our movement piece almost exactly the way we had done in class to have a connection to the different scenes and our characters within them. We took "follow the leader" and the end swaying from our exercises used in class. Swaying was part of our falling unit, where the main focus was being able to shift your weight along your body to create a believable swaying motion, like in a rocking boat. We didn't really use falling in our piece, which is sort of a pity, since it could have looked impressive.
Most of the rehearsing we did for this piece was in a large space, where we were really able to spread out and use a lot of space to do the different movements, but when we started rehearsing in the actual performance space, say before the show, it was obvious, that some changes needed to be done. They weren't huge changes, more of just tweaking the existing positions, from being in a straight line to a semi-circle and having to be more aware of the space around us. We also had to be more careful when running towards the audience, to not run so fast, but rather have the power, we wanted to get trough, come from within and how we held ourselves.
