This past week I’ve been playing around with more ideas surrounding the ideas of peace and serenity, feelings I want to evoke through my performance and the performance space.  It is therefore important that the dialogue I have supports this.  However, I’m finding it difficult to create dialogue in a space and an environment that I’ve already determined and solidified.  As a result, I briefly considered turning the imagistic quality of the space into an installation.  This way, I would alleviate my fears that I would be forcing the audience to think a certain way, a fear I have in terms of approaching the dialogue side to the performance, but despite this, I am confident that I wish to use dialogue as I enjoy the performative aspect of performing.  I just need to make sure that I approach it in the right way.  These are some of the ideas I’ve had:

INSTALLATION

*To be asleep on the astro turf – This would set up the premise of the piece – ‘I awoke as if from a dream’

*Yoga positions

*To focus on emotions – have a soundtrack in the background of peaceful and calm music that evokes certain memories

I then used these ideas to try to help me come up with ways as to how I could approach my dialogue.  I therefore researched into things to do on a sunny day and came up with the following:

*Walking

*Drawing/Photography

*Conquer fears?!

*Spend time with family

I then combined both sets of ideas in the hope of creating some text.  Walking has this inherent notion of journey and destiny that I figure will play a dominant role in the piece in creating a pathway around the space in which the meaning will bear relation to the way the text will finally be structured.

In moving from the silent, I started to listen to a few songs whose lyrics triggered some ideas surrounding the idea of memory, childhood and innocence.

“Fell from the sky

Fell from the sky and started walking

Leaving our footprints on the ground.

Wherever we go we make a sound…

Let go…

Before we’re gone forever” (Foxes, 2014)

Also including this concept of the past is a song called ‘Journey to the Past’ from Anastasia the children’s film.

“Home, love, family

One step at a time,

One hope then another” (Callaway, 1997)

It was in noting down these lyrics that I started to consider creating dialogue based on short autobiographical stories along the lines of ‘I remember…’ Thus the structure of the piece will enable room for movement and progression in changes of tone, mood and atmosphere.  Once the dialogue is written, I then hope to get an idea in terms of how I can then incorporate movement and action that will support the dialogue.  Not forgetting, of course, the importance light and sound will have on my piece too!

Nicholls, N. (2014) Developing My Script.

References:

FoxesVEVO (2014) Foxes – Let Go For Tonight (Official Video).  [online video]  Available from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pecj5GGjQi8 [Accessed 13 March 2014].

Anastasia Romanov (2013) Anastasia – Journey to the Past (Lyrics) (BluRay HD).  [online video]  Available from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL0EGnHdsk [Accessed 13 March 2014].