Looking Into More Individual Expression And Material

In the fourth session we really focused on more individual tasks – from this we were going to apply these to a bigger devised piece for a future session. My focus was to look into Ancient Greek drama, particularly the story of Iphigenia and Agamemnon, which was great as I studied Classical Civilisation to A Level. I also suggested that I took a look into composing a short piece to perform on my flute, which would accompany and compliment a sequence that looked into the classical drama. The instrument is also significant as it played a large role in Ancient Greek society – a lot of the vases found dating back from that time depict a Greek musician, even the Gods, playing the instrument (as you can see the God of Love Eros, or Roman Cupid, playing the instrument:

 

I was partnered up with David to then look into further detail of the story of Agamemnon and Iphigenia – to summarise; Agamemnon sacrificed his own daughter so that his ships could sail to Troy. The story is similar to that of ‘The Tiger’s Bride’ by Angela Carter – The father loses all his possessions in gambling, and his last option to get everything back is to hand over his daughter to the Beast, who is in custody of all the man’s belongings. We were suggested to read and begin devising ideas around the story The Tiger’s Bride, since David came up with the idea. I really enjoyed the detail of imagery and description that the book holds – the themes ideas that came out from the class discussion was intriguing - this is the beginning of a large devising piece that will progress over the next coming weeks.