I was asked by two third years that were leaving if I could be in there EISP. Of course I was delighted and said yes. The original idea of the piece was that we were wives of men that had gone off in the war to fight in 1940. We played around with ideas around this and learnt some choreography to go alongside this. However after Christmas it was decided that the idea didn’t have enough substance to be able to give a 10-12 minute piece.
So then a new idea was thought of and this idea was that there would be three mothers and me and another would play there children who had been taken off to war. The piece started through a strong stigma of listening to a speech that the queen had made in 1940. The speech is one she made on the radio explaining why the children had to be separated from their mothers and fathers. The piece used a lot of contact work and required a full embodiment of the role. For my particular role I had to ignore all the emotion and act confused to why I was leaving. One of the really striking moments about this piece was a section in which starts with the three mothers grieving and in anger and then me and another dancer would run on playing games. This was striking because it showed a contrast to how oblivious we were. I really enjoyed being part of someone’s EISP and it has shown me the organisation and processes that are needed to do this. The performance went really well and I was glad to be a part of such an amazing piece.
This is a link to one of the rehearsals : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro-oY-YHmQ4
This picture was take just before we went on stage.
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