During lessons and outside of lessons, myself and Malachi have been dedicated to achieving and executing a strong lift for the perfomance.
We did have lots of trials and tribulations and also changed the lift many times and attempted different ways of achieving the lift but we finally achieved it in the end. What worked well was that we both trusted eachother enough to work on the lift because it can be very dangerous and we needed to remain confident and focused. We also watched videos on youtube of professional contemporary practitioners to gain inspiration of different lifts we could try. The first lift we tried was simple I had to hold on to Malachis leg as he raised my legs and I was hanging upside down. However we wanted to adapt this lift so that we could challenge ourselves.
To adapt the lift I had to use my core to lift myself up so that I could sit on Malachi’s shoulder. The problem that rose with this was that I struggled to be consistent with lifting myself. I found it challenging to pull myself up quickly.
Because of this we decided to revert back to the original lift. Some time after, we had to incorporate Edward into our lift because we discovered he hadn’t had anything to do in this time. They tried to lift me and then put me on their shoulders so that I could do a backflip into standing, but again this became a problem because the lift wasn’t balanced, my weight on Malachi and Edward was not equal. As the performance was drawing near we had to make a decision on which lift has proven to be more successful and use that one the in performance.
To adapt the lift I had to use my core to lift myself up so that I could sit on Malachi’s shoulder. The problem that rose with this was that I struggled to be consistent with lifting myself. I found it challenging to pull myself up quickly.
Because of this we decided to revert back to the original lift. Some time after, we had to incorporate Edward into our lift because we discovered he hadn’t had anything to do in this time. They tried to lift me and then put me on their shoulders so that I could do a backflip into standing, but again this became a problem because the lift wasn’t balanced, my weight on Malachi and Edward was not equal. As the performance was drawing near we had to make a decision on which lift has proven to be more successful and use that one the in performance.
As a class we had to all help lift Gerromme so that we could create the illusion of him magically being lifted into the air without being seen and disappear without being seen. The first lift was Gerromme being raised to the guy then dropped onto the arms of four people. I was one of the four that had to catch him. The first problem was that the distribution of weight was uneven. The four people were not positioned correctly in a way that would be safe for everyone and Gerromme, to resolve this we decided to kneel down so that we would all be receiving Gerromme at the same level. The issue we discovered with this was the drop was too forceful and didn’t look neat.
We then changed the lift again so that Gerromme would appear to be flying, as a unit we all helped raise him, move him from one side to the other, whilst extending our bodies.After this we lowered him into the cluster as if he disappeared. This was the most effective lift as it was the safest and was also more appealing. We implemented physical theatre into this lift by using our bodies to create an abnormality, we extenuated our bodies and rocked whilst Gerrome rocked to help translate to the audience what is actually happening and the reason for our movement.
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