http://www.hiseoulfest.org/2015/perform_invite_view2015.php?idx=50
1. Research the director/ company of the show
a. what is their primary philosophy?
b. development of the performance?
c. what do you think their intended goal was in terms of the audience response?
2. write a description of your first raw impressions
3. describe any and all scorched moments
4. provide descriptions of elements of inspiration imitation influence you might use in your development of your play analysis/directors n.b.
5. specifically describe elements of mis en scene you might able to use in your own design
Compagnie 9.81 is a French theatre company that specializes in circus like physical theatre based performances. Unfortunately, all the resources I've found are in French and I can not understand them. Nevertheless...I will try to answer number one as well as possible. Their primary philosophy, in regards to the one performance I've seen, seems to revolve around creative use of space. Although the use of unconventional theatre space is something I'm starting to see extensively and is not really mind blowing Compagnie 9.81 was fun to see. The actor's fitness, spacial, and group awareness is always amazing to see in all performances. What I found particularly cool about Suspense/suspend was how it seemed like we were looking at the actors from an aerial view. This is because the wall that was in front of us was like the one scene in inception where it moves vertically and people are still walking on it like it was still horizontal. This made for a cool perspective when the actors flew around and made it seem like they were ice skating. Speaking of perspective, Compagnie 9.81 conveyed the smallness of people's significance in the universe very well in this performance. This was mainly done in their collaboration with VSK's projection techniques with the paint and the fish bowl. My first raw impressions were something like, "oh they are coming down from the top of the building interesting," "are they trying to symbolize fear? helplessness? entrapment?" I think the use of projection, shadows, and film is just such an important and beautiful way to enhance and further communicate most kinds of theatre at least now a days. This is one element I'm going to imitate or get inspiration from for my solo theatre piece (I'm doing Lepage...I probably should use film anyway.)
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