Based loosely on an interpretation of the painting by Kevin Sinnott :: Drama

Based loosely on an interpretation of the painting by Kevin Sinnott called caterpillar track Away with the Hairdresser. The performance was based on the idea of running towards, and reaching, E arthfall Drama EssayDuring the week spent in the Earthfall residency, we produced aperformance based loosely on an interpretation of the painting byKevin Sinnott called Running Away with the Hairdresser. Theperformance was based on the idea of running towards, and reaching,your dreams and ideas for a perfect life.Kevin Sinnotts work is largely based on emotions and humanrelationships he deals with personal experiences and expresses themthrough his artwork. Each of his paintings has an individual themewhich enables viewers of his piece to come up with their ownunderstanding of how it relates to their personal emotions. Thepainting, Running Away with the Hairdresser, has two themes bothrunning away with the hairdresser and leaving the past behind. Weincorporated both these themes into our perfo rmance through two polar physical portrayals, firstly the hairdressing motif andrunning away scene. These argon the scenes which reveal and visualisethe true understanding of the themes and morals of the performances.This performance was centred around the art of dance and physicalmovement. These techniques were linked into our performance byEarthfall from different artists. We utilize skills from the company DV8who base themselves on physical theatre portraying a pointemotion. These provided the stimulation for the main running awaysection, adding a lively and contemporary twist, which the audiencecould take in and develop individual interpretations for the reasonsbehind running away. gum olibanum proving, like DV8, the idea that there is noofficial meaning of the performance. The use of physical movement andgestures also reflected more meaning on the audience, and not entirelythat, allowed them the ability to experience others personal outlookson their reasons behind running a way and what they would like toachieve from doing so. The ideas also inspired the dream sequencewithin are performance, as like DV8, this piece of theatre was formedon radical and eccentric personal ideas. However it was worked withinour routine so that it fitted comfortably in with the themes andmorals.Earthfalls work is concerned with seeking a personal honesty, passionand economy in physical performance to produce quality work of depth,they used this idea to motivate us and encourage us to come up withour own ideas from personal experiences and dreams. They then usedthese to create a performance applicable to us pupils, through the useof monologues which allowed us a chance to express ourselves and also