Waiting

The very first piece we started as a company was our waiting piece, this piece represents the endless waiting faced by refugees everyday. Constantly waiting to cross borders, be granted visas, queueing and more for the majority of the time. We all start sitting scattered across the floor in blurred sort of lines, waiting in a variety of natural waiting positions such as laying down, sitting up, crossed legs, and more to really symbolise this. The music playing is very clock like and is really clever because it really does make it seem like the long process that it is without any need for explanation.

We were all given lots of choreography tasks from learning motifs, and making them our own to using choreographic devices to change up the material in partners and groups, this lets us all have different input into the piece and just let the creative juices flow and seeing how everybody moves,
structuring waiting was as long as it sounds as there were so many different sections of unison, cannon, and small groups repeating and picking up choreography here and there. After we all gravitated to the corner, I learnt Clare and Andrea's choreography that starts running across the stage with a dramatic slide, it was fun learning somebody else's work as we all had different ideas and input. I felt that today's rehearsal was really productive and started to make me have more confidence in the show, as we had gotten so much done in so little time.

on Monday's and Wednesday's rehearsal directors have started to set up lunchtime rehearsals to go over and start cleaning pieces. We are all communicating through the group chat and starting to post any news, information, and updates about the show which is making things easier yet tense at time when there are little arguments about timings and lack of communication.