Live art performance-Laura Knight
On week 25, we were given an assignment which was to do a live art performance in a small group (of 5 people). We had 3 weeks to research and create a response to an assigned ‘person’- who has connection to Nottingham (site specific). Our group did a live art performance for the life of Dame Laura Knight, an impressionist painter.
We all did some research then gathered together out side of class, and I think we were working quite well in terms of team work. We discussed and agreed on doing an art history class, with having some performance related to Laura Knight’s work of art.
On the day of the performance, I was actually surprised to see lots of audience came to see the show. We had an entry fee of 50p per person (people on the floor-25p), and we managed to raise ￡4.80 in total. The show it self went well, as we all rehearsed several time beforehand, we all knew what to do and everything was organized.
But if we were to do this again, I think I would want to include more of the artistic/creative side to it. For example, rather than performing at the side of the slide show (with pictures of Laura Knight’s paintings and photographs), it would have been more interesting if we were performing in front of the projector so that the silhouette or the shadow of our costumes are projected on to the screen. Also, the projection on to our face and the costume would have also been more interesting and creative.
We went to see the performance in the girl’s school done by another group. They had animations and music on the screen with performing a short role play. I think it was well organized and it was interesting to see how they’ve combined animation and live performance in more like a comical way (i.e. not too much formally presented histories and facts), which I think was easy to understand for the audience ( students in girl’s school).
I enjoyed doing this live performance and it was nice to see performances done by other groups as well.
We all did some research then gathered together out side of class, and I think we were working quite well in terms of team work. We discussed and agreed on doing an art history class, with having some performance related to Laura Knight’s work of art.
On the day of the performance, I was actually surprised to see lots of audience came to see the show. We had an entry fee of 50p per person (people on the floor-25p), and we managed to raise ￡4.80 in total. The show it self went well, as we all rehearsed several time beforehand, we all knew what to do and everything was organized.
But if we were to do this again, I think I would want to include more of the artistic/creative side to it. For example, rather than performing at the side of the slide show (with pictures of Laura Knight’s paintings and photographs), it would have been more interesting if we were performing in front of the projector so that the silhouette or the shadow of our costumes are projected on to the screen. Also, the projection on to our face and the costume would have also been more interesting and creative.
We went to see the performance in the girl’s school done by another group. They had animations and music on the screen with performing a short role play. I think it was well organized and it was interesting to see how they’ve combined animation and live performance in more like a comical way (i.e. not too much formally presented histories and facts), which I think was easy to understand for the audience ( students in girl’s school).
I enjoyed doing this live performance and it was nice to see performances done by other groups as well.
posted by eriko @ 4:37 AM
1 Comments:
At 8:48 AM,
joolsayodeji said…
i agree with your comments about the show. thought it went well but wanted the performances bit to be mroe centrestage. Like the "lecture" conceit.
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