2/10/14-2/14/14

This week was short, but I did manage to brainstorm a lot of ideas in the short amount of time that we had.

Monday- I put random ideas that I had and want to incorporate in a list. This is what I wrote down

-Film theatre collab
-"We should be great full and value our education because kids in other places would kill for that."
-How can you fully appreciate something that's given to you when you have no clue what it's like to live without it?
-One woman piece
-Projections
-Malala. Fully appreciate and admirer her, but we will never know what it feels like to be in that position.
-It isn't our fault
-Music
-Isolation, but people on the screen to represent how someone is always watching
-Songs I was inspired by: Counting Stars by One Republic, Fat Lip by Sum 41, Teenagers by My Chemical Romance

I also did a preliminary sketch of a set idea:

Tuesday- Imani and I came up with a dance theatre concept

The piece is set to this song, but would obviously have to be changed if we decided to move forward with it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6EQAOmJrbw

The setting is a private/catholic school classroom. The metaphor for the entire piece is that children in a private school setting are being taught to be carbon copies of a certain standard of "perfection"

One student tries to break away from this idea by getting a tattoo. Another student sees it, and by the end of the piece reveals it to the class.

I sent this entire idea along with videos to you in an email earlier in the week. (If you have any questions I can fwd you the email again)



Wednesday- I came up with another possible idea that could turn into something, however i'm not sure how I will communicate it just yet.

I want to create a piece that discusses the effects that teenage hormones have in education.

My dilemma here is this: I don't want it to read as "I can't learn because i'm a horny teenager." And I think that if this idea gets taken in a certain direction, it can easily turn into that.

I thought of another movement/theater based piece that involves a teenage girl sitting at a desk listening to a lecture, however her thoughts and the people around her are getting in the way of her focus.

I would want to use projections to display her inner thoughts and struggles, as well as other people around her.

It needs more thought, because I don't want everything else to shy away from the actual message I am trying to convey, however i'm a little stuck right now.