Paper Portraits Feelings and Thoughts ...

I found this session really emotionally difficult. We started the lesson by drawing a portrait of how we feel we physically look to the world. However, we couldn't use our hands to draw. It was extremely hard to use other parts of my body. (I tried mouth, underarm and toe). When we had an outline of our bodies, we then had to fill in personal emotions, feelings and thoughts with coloured pastels and chalks. I used red and orange to show feelings of pain and sadness through my body. This lesson really made me question : AM I HAPPY WITH MY BODY?

Paper Portraits Week Two

Theatre Skills Puppet Work

We worked in partners to create a puppet out of a mask and pieces of fabric. We then worked together to pass objects. (Tried a broom and cup). I found this extremely difficult at first but we then practiced this and it became more natural and easy.

Puppet Work

Paper Portraits - Gallery

After everyone had completed their own 'Paper Portrait', we stuck up each piece of art, and made a gallery in the dance space. From our own pieces we then created movement from these and performed this to the rest of the dancers. My portrait had lots of flowing lines and curving shapes. I felt it reflected my personality and dancing style. I decided to concentrate on a particular shape on the portrait, and created representation of this through movement.

Paper Portraits Week One

In this session, Florence Peake introduced us into her work 'Paper Portraits'. We began by imagining we were on warm sand and making imprints, deep into it. From this, we began to explore improvising with the idea that the movements we made, could leave markings on the ground and in the air. We then each were given a large piece of plain paper and stuck it to the ground. Using our previous movement ideas, we danced on the paper. While doing this, other dancers used coloured pens to draw on the paper. The markings we made with the pens reflected particular shapes, sounds, movements, dynamics and feelings we saw and felt.