The way we create theatre is very physical, getting up and throwing ourselves into it. As a group, we are all interested in practitioners such as DV8, Goat Island and Frantic Assembly, and we use a lot of their techniques to create work. Photo's taken by Georgia Randall We've studied Frantic Assembly's Masterclass: Building Blocks for Devising, and used it to create shapes, lifts and movement. This has been one of our favourite performance styles, as we can really push our bodies to the limit. Banshee play around with the tempo of movement, slowing it down and speeding it up. We also play around with gravity, if we can get across the room without touching the floor, using other bodies to climb across. We are often emotionally and physically drained after a day's workshop, but we feel happy because we've achieved something. Often using music to guide our steps, we've taken songs from artists such as Haim, who is an all female group singing about empowering women. Photo's taken by Laura Castle It's become a routine to do a star jump exercise every morning we come into the studio, led by Riyadh, we do over 150 star jumps which absolutely kills your calves but we feel energised afterwards, and gets us ready to use our bodies physically. We all have our skills in the group, whether it's strength, flexibility or being fearless of being chucked around. We really gel as a group, which is why we feel that making our performance about caring for others, and empowering women is so crucial. By Georgia Randall Love, Banshee. x Photo's Taken by Tim Drew
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Photo taken by Tim Drew Hello! We have been busy bees over the past few weeks. It's getting closer and closer to the performance deadline so we've been racking our brains to come up with new ideas. We refuse to be silenced The theme underlying our performance is caring for one another. Giving love and forgetting hatred, dishonesty and ego. We like the idea of a motherly figure within the piece, giving homage to mother nature and goddesses. In a world full of war, anger and sadness, we wanted to show that there is love, and care between people; there is hope. Photo Taken by Tim Drew We want to create an intimacy within our performance; between each other but also between actor and audience. Marina Abramovic is one of our biggest inspirations who created a performance called 'House with Ocean View' where she locked eyes with the audience for prolonged periods of time. Creating a connection with our audience is very important as our message needs to be heard. We want to give ourselves to our audience, for them to walk away knowing something about us, and the challenges we face being women. We want to create a space where the audience feel loved and cared for so that they reflect it back on us full force. The world would be a better place if we loved and cared freely, right?
By Georgia Randall Love, Banshee. x |
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