Guildhall, Performance and Creative Enterprise (PACE), 1st year, second term, 2017.

created with the help of the director Ned Glassier, within the limit of one week time, at the end of our second term which was focusing on the process of collaboration.

Ned has a lot of experience in theater. With a playful approach and structured, which I appreciate and I try to apply to my own work, he shows to the group clearly what is his ideas, where we stand, and where we got to go step by step.

Ned everynow and again would give a confidence boost saying "Strong and wrong!"..

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1        Source – Book, object…

2        Research – Find all the properties of the source

3        Development – Experiment the research into

          some art. E.g. scene.

4        Gesture – How to change the audience.

5        Conceit – Which kind of art it will be. Music, play…

6        Wrighing* – Crafting, creating and shaping

7        Rehearsal – editing, making smooth

8        Performance – Show time

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The source for the performance was the book...

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Ned had already the idea of festival in mind, and he drew the trajectory line of the book and explained it. By doing that, we could visualize where in the show we need to put music, drama, pause, energy etc.. to keep the people engaged and serve the story in an interesting way.

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We agreed to bring as much as material and ideas we could in the areas we were most interested, music, scenes, dance.. Putting all on the table and working on it, filtering, shaping, and trying to see if they fit together with the story and the others materials, sparkling more ideas. Not every work you bring could be used, however it would be always useful to bring every half idea you have.

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During my experience in theater, I have seen as part of the process when to building a play together, and anything in life I believe, that you could simple take whatever people bring and work on it, which is fine, I see this side of myself as flexible to adapt. However, I have been most of the times not putting my ideas forward as I wish. I could have an amazing idea, but the lack of vocalizing it properly, "painting the picture" in a way that the group could see it alive in their minds would make me keep my ideas to myself most of the times. On a brighter side. What has been helping me since the Music Collaboration Weekend, is being aware of how I see my ideas coming, concentrating in what I am seeing in my mind, visualizing its details and just saying it to the group not really caring if they would take or not. But at least giving it a go. To see your idea fusing with other minds, becoming something bigger than you expected is a special feeling. 

I had this song I was creating on the guitar, just for fun and also to practice playing and rapping at the same time. I was playing the song on a rehearsal, and not sure how it happened, but Dee heard it and asked me if she could try something, and she started to say her spoken word poem with the song. Natasha was together with me and started to humming along. Showing to the class, we got some good feedbacks. On the next days, when we were putting the show together on the wrigting step, Georgia wrote something to sing too, and it fitted to be the chorus of our song, Tal came to play percussion. As the story was getting more clearly throughout the days we were building the play, we decided that Tal couldn’t be playing with me, as her character dream was to get on stage. Idea that came from Abi G. by this page of the book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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So we replaced Tal with Tay doing a beatbox. In those times I was getting more confidence in rap performance with Millennial Sound, and took a risk to put my fresh verse that I was writing half English and half Portuguese, which had a good response from the group. As much as I did it, as was getting more comfortable.

It is about when I came to London 5 years ago, I used to work as a kitchen porter, hungry licking the chocolate on the pans before washing them..true story. It also talks about, chasing my value and respect that I had in Brazil. The feeling of "being born again", not knowing how to express what you want to say and feelings using another language. Some people go back to their country because of the level of stress and depression it can get to.

 

Going through the play on our last rehearsals, I was having some difficulties with the transition between the English to Portuguese parts, as they were in two different tempo. I didn’t have much time to work on it whilst putting the show together. So Ned said it would be better for me to perform just the Portuguese part to fit better with the song.

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​I also created a break dance piece with Lucrezia opening Dilla show. We were exploring different ways to engage the audience using our both bodies. It was nice to do a bit of movement, I always have fun doing a free style, which gave my character in the play more depth. But I wasn’t really happy with the decisions I made for my character which was inspired in a Frog from the book, I could have done it more interesting, instead of playing someone laidback, not really challenging myself. However looking back, I think I had so much in my mind with the rap song that I kept simple in other things.

 

I am happy with the overall performance. The immersive theatre style is one the styles that I most enjoy doing as the audience gets to engage more, also being part of what you are performing.  

Some peoples feedback after watching the show, was that they really felt in a festival, watching the bands playing on the stages and the dramas happening around.

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