Bourne Hall is a beautiful space in which there are so many possibilities for our material to work. When we went on a college trip to Bourne Hall to see what we were going to be working with, we found that there were so many different areas to space our material over, and we could then go back to college and create pieces that we imagined would work well in a particular place.
When we got to Bourne Hall, the first thing we did was look around and read about some of the history of the place. Then we went outside to the space you can see in the picture above, and got into small groups, and then went off to five different places to create a small, minute or so piece.
In my group I was with Alice, Charlotte, Jenny and Ollie. We went into the forest area and went to a group of tree’s. When we were over there we decided we wanted to have a body part linked to the tree, so with each different tree there was a different body part you had to connect to it with. For example if one of the tree’s was ‘knee’ when you ran to that tree you could only touch it using your knee, and we tried to think of new and inventive ways in which you could do this.
From doing this activity I learnt that it is so easy to create even a small piece of movement to build upon in such a small place and in such little time. You just have to remember to always have an open mind and also be creative and don’t be scared to try abstract movements as well. After all the whole piece we are creating isn’t about realism, it is about being surreal and making abstract ideas that people have to interpret into their own ways.
The trip to Bourne Hall was really useful because it made us see what space we are going to be working in, and also we saw different things that inspired us and made us create small sections of the piece that we thought would work well when we actually perform at Bourne Hall.
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