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.

As Xiang Liu (2013) mentioned that ” The visual space is based on the understanding of the natural environment and the spatial impression. And stage space is fixed in space with a certain width, height and depth; Compared with the visual space, the stage space is infinite possibility space. According to the different requirements of the stage, stage often need to create different visual space effects. To a large extent, the study of the composition and regulation of visual space has become an important basis for shaping the stage space environment.” Through this sentence, I got some inspirations. I use the studio 3 on Friday. Firstly, I open the light and sitting the central space, I put some noise to listen. I feel it kind of very hard to influence me. Moreover, I close the light and sitting the corner, be silent. I  lay the floor, I feel so scary, there are no people in this space. In addition, I took my phone to saw the photos about earthquake , I recalled some memories, these environment and photos stimulate me. so, I cry, I cannot see the photos. About 15 minutes, I cheer up and open the light. I according this sentence to practice it and I got the summary.

Visual space can be obtained by observing the natural phenomenon of visual experience, but also from a number of paintings depicting the natural environment in the discovery of a large number of processing space information and performance methods. The painting put the three-dimensional space transformed into a two-dimensional plane, so that, the viewer can have appreciating visual space in the process. Stage space can combine unlimited visual space with a limited space, let the audience to produce visual space in the process of watching the performance. It can be seen that the art of painting is similar to the effect of the visual space and the stage art. That painting is created by brush to create the space, the stage is created by lighting and choreographer to create the space. Therefore, I can connect the perspective of painting with the stage of visual space. Whatever painting or stage art, for deal with the space, firstly, it will divided into different level for compare and contrast relationship to the whole space. Secondly, characterization on the same spatial level will use the color temperature of expression in order to achieve richer visual effects.  Such as the picture,

Connect with my work, I also use different space give audiences various space. And different light it can produce various effects for audiences. Like Bright color lighting represents happy emotions, on the contrary, Dark color lighting show sad emotions. The lighting follow with the plot of work and make audiences feel the emotions.

I use some tools such as candles and stones to restore scene.

I lay on the ground and waiting someone to help me, but I can’t hear any voice. I can clearly hear my heartbeat .”Dong….Dong….” and my voice of breath.

I put the candle in front of me, I feel so cold and I watched candle’s light.

I use my right hand to touch it.But I can’t touch it because some stones hinder my actions.

I can’t move .

I up my head to look the candle and  feel very hard to move.

I gave up to touch the light.

I want kick the stones,but I cannot use my power from my bodies, maybe I keep this gesture for a long time and lead to my body numb and powerless.But I try to do it.

I take deeply breath and grab the ground and gaze the sky, I want try to do it ,but I still feel powerless.

I slowly breath because I don’t have enough power.

I am still waiting……

I use my hands, use my legs, use left hand to touch my right hand.

Using my left hand to touch my face and touch my neck,pleural,waist,thigh,and pat my thighs.

Active my feet,slowly contracting my body…

I found some stones failing from me, but I feel still hurt and my body very hard to control.

I up my head to look at the candle again….

Who I am ?

Where it is ?

What I am doing ?

Why I cannot see the light ?

I feel so cold…….

I want drink water….

My legs cannot move…..

I cannot open my eyes,What happen…

I cannot feel my fingers…

What’s the matter ?

I feel some stones buried my body…

How can I do ?

Help , help me ,help me please.

What is the sound?

I cannot speak use my mouth….Who speak ?     Heartbeat….

So cold , give me fire….

Please………

Keywords: Earthquake , Hope,  Pain, Fear，Dark

“In the moment when we realize that the spirit is in the material…the material becomes spirit-Gina Pane”

It could be linked with my work’s theme, I want express people’s mental spirit for my work. It leads to me think how can I express it and what evident can show it. Therefore, I re-think work piece. According to The conditioning, first action of Self-portrait(s), I saw the process of this work , I can understand use the burning candles to show people’s mental and physical figure.It looks like performer use environmental stimulation to stimulate body’s and emotional change. “Pain and fear could be understood as the material of the work.”  I connect this sentence with the ideas to show my ideas.

I only use physical activities because the audience can easily see the change about the bodies and give them some imagination. They can feel various emotion through watching,listening and imaging.

For instance, during the progress, I covered my face with my hair and wear whole black clothing. Use various space and position to show physical emotion.I connect three words in my work: Mental,Physical,Artistic form.

1. Ideas( Mental stimulation )
2. Explore body movement to show mental emotion(Translating process)
3. Catch reasonable gestures (Physical stimulation)
4. Enlarge these gestures(Motion processing)
5. Artistic form.

In addition, to repetition, I use some gestures to repetition the reason why I want emphasis the main movements and emotion. Giving “Dark” emotion to audience. I am not limited by Endurance and Ritual,so, these are not obvious.