Before Assessment- Before the official performance, I have practiced without the garments for 5 times, and with the garments for 3 times -> During those 5 times of practicing without the garments, I have repeated focused on practicing the back rolls, to make sure I am able to do back rolls in the official performance, as well as the jumps with the hooded shirt, to make sure I am able to extend my arms and legs for the official performance -> While I was practicing with the garments for the second time, the string attached to my big hood broke, and I had to sew another string to it. And while I was practicing with the garments for the third time, the string that links the syringe to the earrings broke, and I joint it back with my hands, therefore it was not very well made Relfection of Official Performance- Mistake I have done:
Forgetting to button the shirt after I wore it on, and should not have waited until I wore the skirt - If I was the do the performance again, At the start of the performance, I should have face the audience more, as most of the time while I was skipping to the 1st garment, I was facing the audience with my back, and they were not able to see my facial emotions - Furthermore, while I was wearing the hooded shirt, the hood and extension of the big hood was covering my face, which then the audience could not see my face as well - To improve, I should videotape myself and invite people to see my rehearsal, so that I know where I should change to let the audience see everything I got, especially my facial emotions
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- Pina Bausch is a German dance innovator who was appointed as head of the Tanztheather Wuppertal, which the term Tanztheather unites dance and theatrical methods, including dance, speaking, singing and dancing, into one and be presented on stage to reflect and change the society and humankind - During the dance, 'Bluebeard', the female protagonist, Judith, Bluebeard’s wife, has attempted to make Bluebeard show his affection towards her multiple times - In the beginning, she has attempted to fall into his arms, hoping that he would catch her. However, she has repeatedly fall eleven times onto the ground. During these elven falls, she was looking at him, but he never looked back at her. These repetitive falls signify the blind trust from Judith and Bluebeard’s inability to love - Although Judith has kept desiring affection from Bluebeard, all she got was his coldness and violence, in which mutual understanding and love did not exist between the two of them AfterThought- In my performance, I want to incorporate the fall with my first costume. During primary school, we do ‘trust-falls’ to ‘train’ trust between us and our classmates and friends. The fact that I fall at the end, shows how my trust for her is being rejected, as she was not able to catch me and let me fall
- Furthermore, I would like to show a contrast of how I transformed from Judith to Bluebeard by reversing the first costume, which I was soft and gentle like Judith at first, seeking for someone’s affection; however, after I reversed the costume, I became cold and stiff like Bluebeard - Anni Albers is a renowned Bauhaus artist who experimented new materials for weaving as well as making jewelries from basic hardware materials - In 1940, she has created a collection of ‘anti-luxury’ jewelries with Alexander Reed, in which they have redefined what people thought of as ‘valuable’ - During their trip in Oaxaca, Mexico, they encountered the pre-Columbian jewelry of Monte Albán, which are made over a thousand years, formed of unusual material combinations of precious and non-precious elements, such as pearls and seashells, rock crystals and gold - They have later produced hardware necklaces, such as using washers, screws, angles and coloured jacks. In the photo on the left, they have made a necklace by attaching paper clips to a sink strainer - They have proposed a new definition for ‘value’: “From the beginning we were quite conscious of our attempt not to discriminate between materials, not to attach to them the conventional values of preciousness or commonness. In breaking through the traditional valuation we felt this to be an attempt to rehabilitate materials. We felt that our experiments perhaps could help to point out the merely transient value we attach to things, though we believe them to be permanent.” (Albers and Albers, 1942) Afterthought - In my own performance, I have made a pair of earrings using earring converters joined with a syringe and newspaper inside. To me, I value her straightforwardness, which is like syringes, as it goes directly to one’s bloodstream. Although she critics a lot and is opinionated like newspapers, she does care about others. Instead of making necklace, I have chose to make a pair of earrings because she rarely wears necklace, instead she tends to wear earrings more. To make it resemble her more, I have made these earrings on the left.
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Artist StatementOne’s clothing can reflect their character and mood. In particular, changes in their style of clothes and choice of colour correlates to changes in their relationship with closed and loved ones. Archives
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