Through an improvisation with outside eyes (an exercise we use often), several moments were established.
A soundtrack of a beach was playing while a performer was 'drowned' by another. Using the hands to simulate the waves travelling up and down the body, the drowned performer lay still as the wave engulfs him totally before forcibly putting their hand over the drowned boys mouth. The drowned performer struggles briefly but it totally dominated. The whole sequence has a sexual undertone.
The moment was built upon, extending the wave by including all 4 other performers. The drowned performer is now totally dominated by 4 other boys.
It is important to note that inevitably there is a heavy homoerotic subtext happening throughout.
The next moment came from the drowned performer laying on two chairs, lifeless. An outside eye gave the direction "Try to put him onto one chair." This generated a moment of struggle. Music was playing in the background (Bjork - Joga). The moment was extremely powerful and gave further hint to a relationship narrative.
Tomorrow we are going to a beach with these moments in minds. We will be exploring how putting the moments into a real life context, the setting of the beach, will change, develop or add to them. I want to explore being submerged in sea water. I intend to write texts and develop new movements out of the notion of being wet.
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