Body
Noe argues that perception is a ‘skillful [bodily] activity’, and is not just the reception and decoding/processing of information/data from the world out there. Instead,it requires that we move through, inhabit and act in the world-a kind of ‘practical knowledge’ or ‘know-how'(Noe 2004:11). Actually, it leads me to try different physical movements. Performer watch and percept the space and during the body through observing choice physical movements. During the process of bodily activity, make body to explore practical knowledge. For instance, I put the props in the space. For me, first thing is that I will observe the location and think about what physical movements can use here from static to dynamic. And which postures can express my experiences. Secondly, I can try the postures and connect with my body to refine some uncomfortable postures and make audiences think what the meaning about this postures.
Space
As Yan Hao (2014)mentioned about that “In order to fully use space, the choreographer should create carefully the stage space from internal space to external space, from invisible to visible”. Which means the space is also play a significant role in creating work mainly because space it can express various science and partly because it directly give audiences different visual effects and benefit audiences to look clearly and feel the real scene. So, I connect with this materials into my work. I start with the corner of the space. The reason why I do this because I want enlarge the audiences’ visual effects. It makes them have a large space to look a girl, and give audiences some feeling. Besides, I do this because I want use my methods to describe the work. In short , space can influence performers’ performance and audiences’ visual effects, choreographer can according their own ideas to refine the position of space. Just like Schechner said that “Space ought to open to each other so that spectators can see each other and move from one place to another. The overall feel of the theater ought to be a place where choices can be made (Schechner 1994:30).” Choreographer should create an open space and find different position to audiences. Connect my work, the audience should see my work from the whole space, and I should create work from different space, such as corner and floor and so on.
Time
‘What I call’ my present’ has one foot in my past, and another in the future'(Rush 1999:12) Time, for me, it can guide my work. For example, if a person not do work for a whole day, how can he knows what time to sleep, to eat food, to play, to take shower ? Yeah, time can guide people to do something. Time to 8:00am, people knows get up. 12:00am, eat lunch. 16:00pm, leave home for an hour…. For choreography, is the same thing. I keep this posture for 2 minutes and slowly move another postures. And choreographer can describe clearly the plot for work during a certain duration. .it means that I can play with time. So, That is key points why should we follow the time.
Seven Easy Pieces and Performance Document(ation)s
By Benjamin D.Powell
The whole article describe the whole process about Seven Easy Pieces, watching the whole process and connect with video, I can understand produce some ideas form this performance. And it can help me easily understand performance and make me to think about it.
