Experimental Theatre

Theatre Workshop -29/01/18 We began the day by returning to the 'shoal of fish' exercise and working in unison as a team, but this time when we were playing with the pillows we were improvising movements with the idea of sleep and a sleepless night filled with nightmares and uneasiness. During this exercise the song 'How do you sleep' by LCD sound system was playing to help us surrender ourselves and be fully committed to the action we doing. When the music started speeding up the entire company started creating really violent movements together like hitting the floors with our pillows and screaming. I personally found it intriguing how our subconscious and dreams are mainly linked with violence and fear, but i also felt like this exercise showed the vulnerable side of everyone in the class as we allowed our weaknesses to be shown. This violent movement allowed me to see that every single person has a violent side to them whether they display or not. In the exercise...

Max Richter  Max Richter was born on the 22nd of Mach 1960 in West Germany, he is  British composer who has been an influential voice in the combining of contemporary classical and  alternative popular  musical styles since the early 2000s. Max Richter graduated from The Royal Academy Of Music  and studied with  Luciano Berio  in Italy.  He is known for recording his own music, writing for stage, opera, ballet, producing and collaborating with others.  Max Richter has recorded eight solo albums and his music is widely used the cinemas. One of his popular works is titled 'sleep' it lasts eight hours long. Ritchter describes it as an "eight hour long lullaby"  The work was strongly influenced by  Gustav Mahler 's symphonic works.  The entire performance was performed on September 27, 2015, from midnight to 8:00 A.M. The performance broke several records, including the longest live broadcast of a s...

Andy Warhol  Andy Warhol was born on the 6th of August 1928 and died in 1987, he  was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the  visual art movement  known as  pop art . His work explored the relationship between art, celebrity culture and advertising. He used a variety of techniques including  painting,  silk screening , photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings  Campbell's Soup Cans  in 1962 and  Marilyn Diptych  in 1962, the experimental film  Chelsea Girls  1966, and the  multimedia  events known as the  Exploding Plastic Inevitable  from 1966–1967.  He started off as a commercial illustrator but after displaying his work in several gallery's in the 1950's he began to get recognised  as an influential and controversial artist.   In the late 1960s, he managed and produced the...

Cafe Muller  Cafe Muller was inspired by and  based on her childhood memories of watching her father work at his café in Germany during and immediately following  World War two.  It was choreographed by Pina Bausch set to the music of Henry Purcell and has been performed regularly since is release in May 1985 an d and filmed at the Opernhaus, and broadcast on German television in December of that year.

Pina Bausch  Pina Bausch was born July 27th 1940 and died of cancer in 2009 she was German performer of modern dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director. She broke down the traditions and barriers between ballet and theatre with her use of powerful choreography combining speech, dance, music and wonderful sets.   Her best-known works include  Cafe Mulle r  in 1978  a version of Igor Stravinsky ’s  ballet  Le Sacre du printemps  in 1975, performed on an earth-covered stage; and  Nelken  in 1982, which included a field of flowers and four large dogs. In 1958 Pan Bausch studied dance and graduated from  Folkwang School in Essen. The later studied Ballet on a scholarship in New York City at Julliard.  She danced with the  Metropolitan Opera  and worked with choreographer  Paul Taylor  in New York before returning to  Germany  in 1962 as a soloist ballet dancer. She then ...

Yoko Ono's Bed-In As the  Vietnam War  raged in 1969,  John Lennon  and his wife  Yoko Ono  held two week-long  Bed-Ins for Peace , one at the  Hilton Hotel  in  Amsterdam  and one at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth in  Montreal this was a non-violent protest against war and violence they wanted to promote peace around the world.  This protest was filmed than later made into a documentary movie named Bed Peace it  was made available to watch for free on YouTube in August 2011  by Yoko Ono, as part of her website 'Imagine Peace' Because John Lennon and Yoko Ono knew that their marriage was going to be a big deal to society and be very public, they decided to use this as a way to promote world peace.  They spent their honeymoon in the presidential suite at the  Amsterdam Hilton Hotel  for a week between 25th and 31st of March, inviting the world's press into their hotel room every day between 9 a...