Here at Forefront Theatre Company, we want to talk to our audience through our feet. Clare (Performer) and Emmie (Assistant Director) came up with an idea of how to stage a particular scene we have in our performance using the performers’ feet. It is different and inventive. Yet would have been a nightmare to light. So, I suggested torches. That way then the performer is in control of what they want the audience to see.
We tried this out in rehearsal and it worked so well that I decided to choreograph a couple of other scenes in the same style. I had recently looked for videos showing footwork and I fell in love with a particular one, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef8e_JENKNA (lilpinkponies, 2010). The way the feet seem to show a narrative through simple movements is amazing and I wanted our performance to have that; so I looked at putting some footwork to a poem, our writers had written, and the performers do the movement without shoes on. It is different to the other parts of our show and it is a nice way to reflect the words, being spoken, visually.
Tamsyn.
Work Cited:
lilpinkponies (2010) Billy & Lauren – Boogie Shoes. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef8e_JENKNA [Accessed 30 April 2015]