My Devon Hills
Documentation- extended programme notes.
Demelza Donkin-Green
CHO311
Choreography with Theatre practises
Stage 3 CAP
2009
Intro
This documentation will give my reasons to participate in this performance and what drew my interest for working with Alison and Yair. I intend to explain the devising process and point out key exercises that were used and how the piece developed. I will then map out the structure of the performance, notating key developments. Moving on to give a personal account from my view as a performer /deviser of how I dealt with given situations alongside personal challenges and successes.
Why I chose to work on this project.
Previous to this project I had a great interest in Butoh and the presence of such Japanese theories and philosophies such as Mah and Wabi-Sabi this was the focus for my dissertation. Mah explores the moment between two given points, "Ma can be defined as experiential place understood with emphasis on interval."(Columbia,
A Japanese tea house which reflects the wabi-sabi ...
Nederlands: De WABI-SABI opvarend op de Noord20th May 09). Mah is used in conjunction with Jo-Ha-Kyu as a compositional tool, particularly within theatrical forms i.e.: Noh theatre to work on this moment within two subjects. As for wabi- Sabi, this philosophy has focus on the ideas that everything is impermanent, everything is imperfect, and everything is incomplete, this during the course of the project I felt was a contrasting aesthetic to the way in which Yair was working.
I knew I wanted to extend my experience working with Butoh on a practical level. Moving on to apply my background knowledge of Butoh and apply this on a practical level. Working with Alison on the presence of the performer and the performance quality through Butoh exercises allowed me to further my knowledge on Butoh from a theoretical to a physical level. Whereas I normally move from a...