Olena blogged about our visit to the Hepworth last weekend
Gold Company started off the week
with a confusing ending to a game of coconuts where I won (apparently) and
Callum helped us keep up the ball for 100 throws we set off tracking through
our progress on the 12 Dancing Princesses.
Fine tuning the spirits entrance
and the Princesses’ cute waving, I feel we could be well on track to perfecting
our performance- if we are all diligent in learning our lines to be off script
by this forthcoming Saturday.
After a morning of dancing and
twirling around a drama studio, a few fellow yew tree members and I ventured
down to the Hepworth Gallery for an extra helping into the yew tree box of
imagination. Touring around the gallery our creativity began to flow. Alexandra
Bircken’s leather skins draped over ladders began the focus of our ideas
leading into the realm of the true (in my opinion) underlying tones of
fairytales- despair, death, but ultimately hope as the climbed towards their
freedom; an idea encouraged by the addition of Rapunzel showing off her long
flowing, golden hair.
Mercedes and her sisters added to
the effect of the mystic, reminding us all of a circle of witches casting
spells around the cauldron.
The white tree sat alone at the
back of the room provided a welcomed contrast to the dark, bleak, black of the
weary and tired skins. A discussion prompted the thoughts that the tree was a
symbol of childhood- white, clean, pure, untarnished- a time in our lives in
which fairytales seem the most fantastical.
Make-Me provided extra responses
as images of absence, black, skin, violence, and hope emerged as our themes for
the piece. Finishing off by adapting the classic fairytale structure, taking it
down a darker, more daring path- Once upon a time, a time lost of hope, in a
land covered in mystery, lived people who had forgotten how to live… And they
all survived…
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