Moments.

 We finally performed our piece. I thought that it went really well, the best that we have ever rehearsed it before and everybody in my group agreed. We all worked well together as a team and did not get anything wrong in front of our audience. The audience responded really well to our performance, they all gave back positive feedback and a slight confusion too of the poem. Not many people understood what the poem was about but I enjoyed that factor because it gave the overall piece some randomness and mystery too, it was not all straight forward. Approximately 40-45 audience members came, including friends and family. The great support helped us in my opinion to perform at our very best and we all very shone through till the very end. The running order was:
1. Duets & Columbian hypnotist. - This worked really well in my opinion because it started off the piece with  a bang. It was very dynamic and quirky, I liked that about it because it gave the audience a peak of what was to come. It had strange music in the piece and I thought that this worked really well on a whole and made the performance seem individual and strange.
2. Trees 1 - I really enjoyed this too. Walking on in turn of three very different types of couples including a controlling couple, a loving couple and a quite quirky couple too. While the three couples dance first in fast motion then slow, the rest of the group limp walk across the stage in grotesque ways, then finally they edge up to the three couples then back away slowly. I found this to be very confusing and weird, but still at the same time it had a story line to it between the lines and looked great from the viewers point of view.
3. Coffee shop (verbatim text) - I really enjoyed watching this piece because it shown me how people differed there verbatim text in many ways, this groups quote was "His is bigger than mine!". Sort of changing this story line, the group took you down a different route and made it very comical to watch but also still keeping the abstract and grotesque values to it.
4. Motif 1 - This was my groups motif. I found it really abstract in how we all moved in canon. Keeping with Justine's routine, we changed some bits around and also added our own movements to make it more dynamic and individual. I thought that my weaknesses in this scene however were when getting into the final formation of the lift, we were quite scrambled in how we stood, a more statuesque stance would of worked a lot better in my opinion.
5. Piano mime - Enjoyable and fun to watch, I really thought that this mime worked well within the whole piece. It added a lot of comical values that were defiantly needed after the first motif to liven up the audience again. I have noticed that this is linked with the work of Grotowski because they also like to add in some comedy after a dramatic scene because he knows that his audience needs a break and a laugh every once in a while when watching a performance. We have clearly used that guideline in our piece showing that he is an inspiration to our work too.
6. Trees 2 - This was the same as the first 'Trees' scene, except we changed the ending so that the couples end up limping off with one of the grotesque people. This to me was shown as a plot twist in the story line and it worked well within our performance because it confused the audience as to why this scene was repeated, only to find that the ending had changed leaving many questions in there heads. Repeating a scene but differing it slightly is a contrast and it makes the audience think back to the first scene and wonder why it is being repeated, what is going on for it to be brought back again but is still enjoyable too.
7. Motif 2 - Again, repeated but with a completely different group. This in my opinion was a good idea because it gave the performance variety and another contract too. I was in two minds with this however because I liked the concept, yet I still think that repeating the motif's could of been differed a lot more than they were to show a significant difference. For example, maybe the music could of been changed slightly (e.g. the first motif with a sort of jazz vibe, the second with a pop vibe and the third more classical just to change it up more than it was originally.) I think that this would of just gave it a slight change and also made it slightly more exciting to watch the change.
8. Shower mime - From asking a member of the audience their view on this scene, they said "I feel the scene was quite funny, it was like a real life situation which made the scene more life like and some people could relate to it. This made the viewing a lot more fun to watch also." I would say that this was a positive remark and it shown that this piece was well thought out and gave off a good viewing point.
9. Gorilla - One of the audience's favourites from the whole performance, and also most of the groups favourite also. This piece was a part of the verbatim text stage and it worked well with humour. I really loved this scene because it was extremely funny and also got a way of interacting with the audience. This was by the gorilla (Ryan) who gave a member of the audience a banana and played with one too, this was a really great way in my opinion of getting the audience involved with the performance.
10. Beach mime - The last mime. My favourite thing about this mime was the facial expressions of Megan and Beth when they had their heads pushed into ice cream. They both worked with their expressions really well and made the audience believe that they had really hit their head into an ice cream cone. This was amazing acting and was a very strong point from the performance in my opinion.
11. Motif 3 - As I explained in the previous motif section, I feel this could of been changed slightly more to not be a repetition as much as it was. However it was still a very strong piece and worked well within the whole performance to make it more abstract and quirky.
12. Spider - Verbatim text, we worked with the quote "Do spiders have noses?". This was the scene were we devised the quote and made it work within our piece. We finally decided to come on one at a time in the group of four in a very grotesque way repeating our lines which then overlap by the end of it. This in my opinion was very different and varied the piece too.
13. Poem -

LET us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats	5
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. Do I dare eat a peach?

 I found the poem one of the strangest pieces in the whole performance. It was extremely quirky, yet it was still very abstract and different. I did like the piece but I also thought that it could of been improved so that there was more risks taken and a lot more movement. However it was still a great piece to make and perform but it gained a lot of confused feedback from the audience. Nobody knew how to feel about it and I sort of liked that factor because it was mysterious and random, just to leave questions in the audiences mind.

14. Grotesque - Probably my favourite piece to rehearse and perform, I found that working on this was a change from all of the other pieces. It contained a recent song, 'Young and Beautiful' by Lana Del Rey, this was a positive for me because none of the other pieces in the performance had recent music they were all random. I liked the music choice because I know that the audience would know the song and it may be a favourite among them too, this was a plus because if they liked the song they would of most likely enjoyed the piece. The grotesque movements worked well with the beats and it had great timing, it also had an almost storyline which I enjoyed because none of the other pieces really did. Three couples showing three very different life stories, they all die at the end but in very grotesque ways to end the piece. The first couple are quite deranged and violent, the wife's ending being choked to death. The next couple are very much in love, showing this through dance and movement, but sadly the wife's ending being a sad tale of the fact that she couldn't take it any more and dies dramatically still in arms with her husband. The final couple had 'lost their spark' and the wife commits suicide by taking an overdose to quickly die because she can not take it any more. All of this being very risky subjects to take on, I found that this could of either gone really positive or a complete negative impact amongst the audience who had taken on these subjects through life. However I still thought that it was a good idea to do because it went over serious topics but in a very abstract and diverse way.

15. Final poses - This started with a grotesque look in the huddle, then turning to a saucy "sea-side" kind of look. We then went into a depressed looking state, to an edgy look towards the audience. The point of this was it was a sort of flashback of all the pieces in the whole performance. I would say that this worked really well and was a very solid end on the final performance too. It ended it all with a bang and was very light and quirky to watch. This in my opinion was a very good idea to take on and it worked well also.