Performing Arts

Studying Perfroming Arts @ DMU.

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Use of projection mapping

Performance Art

Exploring ideas

Telling a story

Portraying an idea

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Incredible Ballerina Performs En Pointe with Knife Shoes

En Puntas is a video installation by artist Javier Pérez featuring ballerina Amélie Ségarra performing an incredible dance atop a grand piano, entirely en pointe, wearing a customized set of pointe shoes that extend beyond the toe box with a pair of sharp kitchen knives. As if dancing on the tips of your toes for an extended period of time isn't enough, Ségarra has the added pressure of balancing on a thinner platform, from an even greater height. The thought of someone even managing to stand on the potentially dangerous footwear is absolutely astounding. The fact that Ségarra maintains her balance and even leaves her mark as she purposely scrapes the sharp-edged blades across the piano is both exhilarating and frightening to watch. The intense performance is made all the more gripping as the elegant dancer tiptoes closer to the edge, making it difficult to avert one's eyes. The powerful feat of strength and balance exemplified by the ballerina is eventually accompanied by the…

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His body language is another sort of art

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Border

Project from Elevenplay and Rhizomatiks is a mixed reality dance performance featuring robotic wheelchairs, custom HMDs and dancing in both the real and the virtual:

“border” is an innovative style of dance performance since it consists of the participation of both dancer and audience. Audiences are able to feel the installation space with their senses by riding personal mobilities all controlled by the system. 10 WHILLs -the personal mobility audiences ride- are prepared, so that 10 people can join at one time of the performance. This means, audiences who do not ride WHILL can enjoy the stage from outside of the performance area. Those who rides WHILL, put on headset formed display of virtual reality at first, and the small camera is set up on the surface of that display. These WHILLs are controlled by the system through radio wave, so that people cannot control them directly, and 10 WHILLs move on the stage in each speed and movement  by the control of automatic computer programs. “WHILL” is produced by the WHILL Inc.

With the start of dance performance, audiences can see the virtual space of the stage through the display they put on, and also the real scene through the camera set up on the headset formed display. AR, augmented reality, enables people to enjoy both scenes of virtual and real, so that they can appreciate the stage from each point of view while each WHILL moves around. On the stage, some dancers of ELEVENPLAY share the space with WHILL, and perform their dance. In the AR, the seamless transition of real movements of real dancers and virtual movements of virtual dancers on the data, are showed to audiences on the WHILL. Then audiences can be greatly excited by the both worlds of spatial and physical expression. Since real dancers touch audiences sometimes, they may be pulled back to the real space, and realized themselves as the real physical existence. This installation space will be presented as one that can be appreciated from outside of the stage as well.

Here is a view of the whole performance from the outside:

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A short piece I did at sixth form with the trestle basic masks to Lana Del Rays - Honeymoon.

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Trestle basic mask.

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PANTOMIME

Early Pantomime!

Originated in Italy in the 1500s

Originally they would also wear leather half masks

Included a lot of dance, music, acrobatics, tumbling and buffoonery

Buffoonery -  behaviour that is ridiculous but amusing.

Tumbling - perform acrobatic feats, typically handsprings and somersaults in the air.

Originally they would also wear leather half masks.

Traditions

Children were able to preform

Men dressed up as women - these are called pantomime dames

Women dressed up as men on stage

Women that played mens’ roles were called principle boys

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Silent masks were used to great effect, particularly on child actors, expressing powerlessness, bewilderment, vulnerability, etc.

https://greektheatre.wordpress.com/home/

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Commedia dell’ Arte Masks

Some of who and what the masks were...

Arlecchino (Harlequin) - poor character, always hungry and with no money… hippie but he is witty. Brighella - more roguish and sophisticated, coward villain, would do anything for money! Il Capitano - professional soldier—bold. Il Dottore - caricature of learning. Pantalone - rich and retired, mean and miserly, with a young wife! Pulcinella - dwarfish humpback with a crooked nose, the cruel bachelor who chased pretty girls.

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Manuel Valencia, mask maker, Sevina, Michoacan, Mexico./ Manuel Valencia, mascarero, Sevina, Michoacan, Mexico

Contacto (cellular): 452 526 6881

Photography @ Florence Leyret Jeune

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Trestle Masks

It was created in 1981

ORIGINATED IN BRITAIN

It was established by three students, they all met at university

Basic Masks

Used as an introduction to people which know little or nothing about performing with masks.

Highly entertaining! - ‘hilarious presence’

Through mask work you include the following techniques: physicality, focus and improvisation.

Masks are extremely useful for actors trying to improve character creation

8 separate character masks

handcrafted

Intermediate Masks

more than one expression

begin to look more human

exist to develop the knowledge you gained from using the basic masks

can achieve a more naturalistic performance 

‘diverse array of characters’

only 8 masks

Advanced Masks

hand painted set

strong character types

present higher range of emotions

look extremely human like - shape and colour

array of different colours, unlike basic and intermediate 

notable change around the eyes and mouth - more detail 

there is 18 different advanced masks

Trestle also created half masks, this allow the actor to talk, unlike the other full masks that prevent you from speaking, these are an introduction to Commedia dell’arte.

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(2013) Perfromance Studies: An Introduction, Richard Schechner

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Our second performance. The build up to it was quite hectic as we only had a few lessons with with everyone but we managed to put the whole performance on in time. 

source- vimeo.com 

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Bibliography

Websites

http://italian.about.com/od/italianculture/fl/What-You-Need-to-Know-About-Commedia-dellArte.htm (20/1/17)

http://www.trestle.org.uk/about-trestle/history/ (19/1/17)

http://www.trestle.org.uk/mask-shop/half-masks/ (19/1/17)

http://www.trestle.orh.uk/mask-shop/intermediate-masks/ (19/1/17)

http://www.trestle.org.uk/mask-shop/advanced-masks/ (19/1/17)

http://www.trestle.org.uk/mask-shop/basic-masks/ (19/1/17)

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/performance (19/1/17)

http://www.forcedentertainment.com/about/ (15/1/17)

https://space.org.uk/2014/08/04/what-is-immersive-theatre/ (15/1/17)

http://the-artists.org/artistsbymovement/site-specific-art (1/12/16)

http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/3510/2/Gleave_12_MPhil.pdf (1/12/16)

Photos

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=shakespeare+his+wife+and+the+dog&safe=strict&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1440&bih=718&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-9eKW2dHRAhVM2xoKHRXKAioQ_AUIBigB 

Books

(2013) Perfromance Studies: An Introduction, Richard Schechner

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Family

“Everyone’s dad exists as a kind of statue, frozen in a certain pose. Mine is wearing his cream and black mac, standing in the rain watching football or cross country…it doesn’t matter which: it was muddy, and he was there.”

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY BEN NORRIS.

https://twitter.com/BenNorris7

Teaser Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkwZywNipgI

MARVELOUS!

I really enjoyed this piece, it was performed at Upstairs at the Western (Leicester's first Pub theatre) meaning it was quite a cosy show, minimum of 20 people. It was quite personal, to the point where he even gave out a KitKat and coffee, he also took a sip of an audience member beer when he started to loose  his voice. 

I totally recommend this show!

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The Shallow End by Doug Lucie (Slater)

I don’t think I could have sex if I was poor, I don’t think I’d enjoy it very much. Fact, I think I’d kill myself if I was poor, tie a silk scarf around my neck and hang myself from a tree with apples growing on it. Why an apple tree? Just something I remember from nature probably. Urghh, poverty, just the thought. Don’t you find it stimulating? I do.It’s important that when I walk out the office I see beggars on the streets. It’s important that when I am being driven to one meeting from the next I glimpse people with nothing. We need to be reminded of the depths, to look down occasionally into something terrible and keep our balance.

What do you think of my ass?

Come on, let me hear some poetry, some filth, I want you to unlock it all, to say the things you always dream of and never own up to, I do it all the time. You’re undressing me aren’t you?

You’re pulling up my skirt, feeling me firm and warm underneath. Then pulling the knickers down to my knees and touching me ever so gently in the small of my back so that I lean forward. And now you’re kneeling with your face just an inch from me and I can feel your breath and you can smell me.

Do I smell familiar or strange?

And you’re rubbing your face against me and I start to move my hips from side to side, backwards and forwards and I’m opening up further as you start to use your tongue on me. And it’s all dark and moist and we’re fusing into one another as we rock and pulse to the same rhythm.

Is this second hand? Fuck me, the poor are everywhere, aren’t they.

This was a monologue I had to do once from Shallow End, a rather political and provoking written by Doug Lucie.