tppp

internet- connections

dervishes- dance and rythmn/ scorched moment

lighting

andong

Pina Baush

tadashi suzuki- mark hill

Romeo and Juliet shakespeare

bertolt brecht

"The spectator was no longer in any way allowed to submit to an experience uncritically (and without practical consequences) by means of simple empathy with the characters in a play.  The production took the subject matter and the incidents shown and put them through a process of alienation: the alienation that is necessary to all understanding.  When something seems 'the most obvious thing in the world' it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up."- bertolt brecht

Theo Jansen- Strandbeest

as i start to think through my tppp a bit more i realised some things about my designing focuses and the values i have in relation to design, and i am very scientific. the things i enjoy are methodical and have rules tied to them, if they don't have rules i create them, i saw this in my fascination with lighting and the artwork of theo jansen who is less theatre and more art but it is more of a secondary symbol for me as it is my way of thinking expressed directly as i see some art, as something beautiful created for the purpose of motion, which is another part of theatre i enjoy. dance has a system of rules put in place which each individual responds to and knows what to do with each other to create one beast that is the ensemble- just like each individual part of theo jansen's creations come together to make a moving preformance. basically i think i am not a very good creative designer, but i am a designer with his own merits and style that requires a certain degree of extra thought in order for other creative elements to burst out. it's not i'm a bad designer but that i constrict myself with rules of the world of the play. this is something i want to put forward along with my belief in how everything is connected.

Gary Card

I think it’s about communication ― what are we trying to say, what are we trying to get people to feel? It is about considering every element of the design and making sure you are staying true to that message you hope your viewer will take away with them. 

i feel that this is the backbone of art as a whole and is what all artists need to strive for, communication. if art does not communicate or has no message then it is good art irrespective of the quality of the art itself. 

pilobolus

here is a picture of pilobolus

now here is a picture of the theatre group of the same name

and what interests me right now about this group is how they arrived at the name they did and why. When i was back in South africa there were several advertisments who used pilobolus to sell their product or service i have pretty much forgotten the company but i never forgot the shadow making group. as such, a local news group interviewed the team while they were in SA and i remember that they mentioned why they chose to name themselves after a fungus. it seems the dance company named themselves this back in 1971and drew inspiration for their dance from biology and natural movement and that the name pilobolus was a catchy name.but in recent times they are not the only inspired thearical dance troupe. not so long ago, this year in fact another hungarian shadow group called attraction won the britains got talent competition. in the US in the american version of the show there was a group called tell-a-vision who used lcd screens for their preformance but got booted off early for being too artsy.

as ine final thing, back in south africa there was another advertisement for Volkswagen or bmw and featured not a preformance but something more sciency but looks just as amazing, but is more a feat of engineering and art than dance and art

these are considered a type of wind chime as they are kinetic sculptures

 oh it was bmw