The workshop focused on developing ideas for the final performance piece. Participants choreographed a dance that may be included and brainstormed additional concepts, such as having half the dance be childlike and half adult-oriented, repeating a key motif throughout that increases in size and definition, or starting and finishing on stage to represent growth. Multiple roles and a signifier like a white teddy bear were also suggested.

1. Performance Workshop – Charisse
Today Adam choreographed a small piece of dance that we can choose to use or not use in
our final piece. After this was choreographed we sat in a circle and brainstormed more ideas
for our final piece and this is what we came up with:
 Half and half – half the dance childlike and half the dance based on adults?
 Keep a key motif and repeat it throughout the performance (e.g raising your hand)
and the movement/motif could get bigger and more defined throughout.
 The whole company can be doing the same dance and one by one we could lose
concentration and leave just one person going full out – like young children do
 Everyone in the company plays a role, multi-role could be used so everyone “makes
a difference”
 A signifier could be used – like a white teddy – showing innocence and purity
 News reader vs Kids TV presenter – could go from teaching children how to use a
compass to a stabbing murder case
 “STOP THE MUSIC” – one person could act a staged monologue of going off the rails
 White clothes – marked with chalk or dye to show bad memories
 All start and finish onstage to show growing up and change