The following groups are:
Police, Camp, Eurostar, Beach, Children, and Seeking Asylum.
My group is Police, and in my group I have: N'dira, Blue, Elisha, GFG, Tyler, Jermaine, and Aaron.
As a group we have been working well together, to all contribute ideas, movement, and to really try and make our piece effective, and I am very grateful to have had a 'stress-free' to a certain extent group that all worked cohesively.
Our piece is based on the horrific picture, of a little syrian boy named Aylan Kurdi. He was tragically found dead, washed up on a Turkish beach by a police officer. The image below, and story is chilling and so touching, which made us wanting to look at different perspectives, different symbolisms, and ways to interpret this story in a respectful way.
As a group we decided to structure the police piece, around the story of Aylan and how his death had effected the police officer in the photo, we had chosen Jermaine and Tyler to try and represent the police officer, but from two contrasting perspectives. In situations like wars and epidemics and political violence, police officers are not often thought about as 'humans' as it is assumed that it just comes with the job. But in fact, when you do think about it, its hard to know if thats what an officer thinks is morally right, or if it is just apart of the conformity, rules, and regulations that they have to follow. Police officers all probably have families, and maybe even children of their own to think about in these situations.
The piece really focus's on the unity of the police force, showing strict lines, and patterns in militant fashion. N'dira and I started researching into stamping and stepping to try and add that to our piece to change up the dynamics and really highlight that we were moving as a force.
We started off by getting a feel of what Stepping was, and took lots of inspiration from the video below.
We watched the below video, and learnt the first and second phrase, so we could take it to our group develop it, and make it more militant in the way we needed it. Over a course of time this phrase kept changing and developing from using our hands more, to using our feet more, and changing the idea of tap shoes, to military boots that we could stamp loudly in.
Blue, Elisha, and Georgia started working on a softer, more contemporary like section for the rest of us to learn to symbolise the breaking of our unity, and to start to introduce the story of Tyler and his "other self" Jermaine highlighting the internal and external conflict of being an officer, and having to experience finding baby Aylan like that.