The following links are of mine and Gavin's process to getting to our final piece
Rehearsal 1 : first motif This motif I found was developed from a piece of theatre I saw at the young Vic called "the secret agent" orrigionally the moves were ment to signify someone hiding while someone forcefully opens the hands. We developed this by exploring are faces without leaving our eyes creating this as our starting point to then be developed further in our piece.
Rehearsal 2 : first lifts
To find the lift in the footage we both decided to play with the idea of breath with me reprosenting gas and Gavin representing man (solider) this proved to be successful as the more Gavin held his breath the greater force and the struggle became releasing the lift on a full out breath when I let go.
Rehearsal 3 : developing lifts
Further looking into the exercise we repeated it finding a new lift we then develop and combined it into the previous move creating a flowing sequence that represents in a non liner way the ideas of breathlessness and physical strain on the body from another being (gas).
Rehearsal 4 : developing motif
During this rehursal we decided to use our motif again but develop it so the audience recognise and follow the piece, adding a forceful slap to the floor is there to reprosent the ideas of someone beating the floor also along side the ideas of sounds around a solider during the chemical attack, this reminder makes the movements stick in the audiences head putting across the meaning of our piece clearly.
Rehearsal 5: struggle
This section is all about the battle with the unknown we felt it would be good here to be totally literal with what we were doing as the piece was to abstract to follow a journey this also ended up being our climatic moment as for an audience it's difficult to watch which is what me and Gavin wanted to reprosent a slow and long losing battle to death.
Rehearsal 6 : ending
Our ending we felt should be powerful and blunt because that's what death is but at the same time wanted to remind of the motif so what we did was to get me to repete the motif on Gavin's face and for him the to move backwards and use sign language "I will kill you" to show the audience the vicious circle of war and point it to the audience so they feel like they have caused this this to the point end means it sticks.
