A group meeting in the Tower Bar got us talking about what we could do. We all decided we would like to do something with film and photography and Francesca Brooks said she would like to do some physical movement after researching DV8. Our idea is to make a big white canvas that we could move around Lincoln and hand out small post card sized cards and ask people if they could write a word or draw a picture of what Lincoln means to them. After they have designed a card we would take a picture of their card and them and stick it to the canvas eventually creating a eye pleasing collage of photos of what the public think of their city. We would film the process and show the film in a public venue when it is in near completion. Our goal is to make people think of Lincoln in a diffrent way, we hope after looking at the canvas and creating their own card they start to think about what a truly wonderful place Lincoln is.

DV8 Physcical Theatre company is one of our major influences for our performance, so I thought it would be a very good idea to learn more about them to understand them as a company. The first paragraph on their website says a lot and it is exactly what we want to achieve “DV8 Physical Theatre’s work is about taking risks, aesthetically and physically, about breaking down the barriers between dance and theatre and, above all, communicating ideas and feelings clearly and unpretentiously. It is determined to be radical yet accessible, and to take its work to as wide an audience as possible.” (http://www.dv8.co.uk/about_dv8/artistic_policy, no date) We want to clearly communicate the stories we are given accurately through the use of physical theatre. We also want to appeal to all ages so that we make a piece that a wide range of people can enjoy.

Work Cited:

http://www.dv8.co.uk/about_dv8/artistic_policy (no date) (Accessed: 14 Febuary 2012)