Collaborative Reflection 1/20/20

Our group has kept up well with our goals for the pervious two weeks. We had a very easy time with the first week of our goals. However, our second week was a little tricky. I was out for the most of the week and have found myself slightly behind the rest of the group. For our project we used the stimulus Rhythm 0 for our project. Rhythm 0 is a piece of performance art where a woman stood still for many hours and lat people do whatever they wanted to her body. Our initial ideas for using this stimulus were to create a piece of theater that was very physical and less verbal. We wanted to make a piece that was very impacting and almost like a PSA type project. However, our project has shifted drastically from its original format. We are exploring lots of ideas of mental health and personal battles in our lives. Everything performed in our piece will be in reference to real events that occurred. We wanted to raise awareness on the fact that everyone is fighting they're own battles. Our plot will be like a clip from each of our lives. Maybe tied together by own character. Maybe not. There will probably be not a lot of resolution to the theater because there may not be a lot of resolution in real life.  Our character/characters will grow and change mostly based off their surroundings and how that impacts them. There will be lots of gain in knowledge and hopefully understanding. Our hope is to use tech to play the majority of our side characters. Most of the time on stage we want the goal to be just one physical person on stage. The intended audience is not a particular age group. Maybe high school college age. We want to raise awareness with this piece and give a voice to those who may bury their battles. There are multiple moments of tension in our piece. Some self vs self., Some self vs parents, as well as some self vs society. This play is extraordinarily important to me because I feel like this is a perfect outlet for me to voice met battle as well as educate my peers about how tough a day to day can be. I think I will draw from some techniques I learned at ISTA. Threading stories together and such through one object.