We highlighted specific words that we feel should be emphasised, and made brief notes on what we could feature in that area such as: For the word 'statue', we could have one of us standing in fixed positions and subtly moving around the space. We thought we could make the statue the 'sad man' of the couple, who has a walking stick prop to show his age. As it is in 1st person, this person could speak the words of the poem as the other two perform and act it out, as they narrate the story. Ashley and Josh switched the roles of the statue to both perform movements, while the statue role looks on as his recollection of events are relived, as if he his a ghost watching over two people. We also discussed dynamics which would change throughout, for example 'pigeons' we would use elegant, light jumps to show the flight of the birds. We also considered emotions. For the words 'public argument', our feelings would represent humiliation and anger, so we incorporated those into our choice of actions, e.g pushing against each others' hands to turn away from one another.
As the park bench is what everything revolves around, we used two chairs as the bench which we would work with in this piece. I.e in the last line "an empty, broken bench", the narrator separates the chairs which we fall to the ground from, signifying the ending of the love story.
In evaluation, I think we chose the right movement and structure for the stimulus. I believe we were creative in using only vocals as our sound, and linking our movement directly to the text read aloud. We could have improved by including more dance-style actions, and it could have flown more into each section. But overall we paid attention to detail in the text.
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