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We have devised a piece from Frantic Assembly's Lovesong and The notebook.
It begins with the older version of Ally and Noah sitting on a chair reading through their story from when they first met. As this is spoken, in the background the younger version of Ally and Noah are acting out what is being said, showing how the couple met from a touch of the shoulder. This then progresses, showing the couples first date, then skipping between the old and younger couple , showing that the older version of Ally is remembering more. We sadly end the story showing the death of the older couple and showing that the younger couple where just a figure of imagination/ memory which the older pair shared.

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one of the themes in our performance is Alzheimer's. This is a disease which effects many people (commonly old people) Effecting their memory, resulting in them not knowing who loved ones or family are.
Ally has Alzheimer's in our production, and we see her from the beginning trying to remember who she is and who he husband is.
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Alzheimers-disease/Pages/Introduction.aspx
This theme is a very strong theme and can relate to an audience if they have had a loved one or family member go through this, leaving an emotional effect.

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Frantic Assembly use devices in their physical theatre production on being called a Chair Duet. I have posted an example below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCu5MeHnDyk

During our piece, I do something similar to this chair duet, when we show the couples first time together. For tis we used a table, and climbed on and off it and also went around the table doing simple moves which are short but effective just like in the chair duets.This links to our chosen practitioner.

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I play the role of the younger version of Noah. For this I have to show the relationship between him and Ally when they first met and showing how they were both madly in love with one another.
For this I show the younger approach being much stronger and athletic, who is head over heals for Ally. I have to do this by using body gestures as well as facial expressions to make this clear to the audience.

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By using the themes which we have in our piece we aim to create an emotional effect on the audience. This is because the themes used and when showed to an audience may come across as a powerful subject, upsetting an audience finding it sad when watching the relationship of the couple and how it progressed to how it is now.

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We decided, as a group to take the idea of showing a couples journey from young to old, and showing the how an illness, in our case we decided to give the character of Ally Alzymurs, and then show this by using physical theatre combined with dance and acting to show this story to the audience.

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The Notebook is a famous novel and film which shows the relationship between a couple and how their love grows, also showing the couple when they are old suffering with an illness and showing the pair struggling to remember one another.
We  have decided to use this in our piece because it is similar to Frantic Assembly's Lovesong , which was our stimulus for this module.
We have decided to keep the names the same and the idea of showing the couples progression to keep the link between the film and also Lovesong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDJIcYE32NU

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I was first moved by his worked called: 'LoveSong'.

'That is the story of our beginning. And this is the story of… the end.

Lovesong intertwines a couple in their 20s with the same man and woman a lifetime later. Their past and present selves collide in this haunting and beautiful tale of togetherness. All relationships have their ups and downs; the optimism of youth becomes the wisdom of experience.

Love is a leap of faith. '
http://www.digitaltheatre.com/production/details/lovesong/play

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During rehearsals I got introduced to the practitioner 'frantic Assembly', a physical theatre company.

'Frantic Assembly was founded in 1994 by Scott Graham, Steven Hoggett and Vicki Middleton.

"We were three students at Swansea University. We were suddenly inspired and then encouraged to form our own theatre company. This reckless and terrifying leap was the best thing we ever did.

We were English Literature and Geography graduates and as such we were untrained in any aspect of theatre or dance but we were willing to learn and devoured any opportunity that came our way. As soon as we learned something we tried to teach it and pass it on.

This simple starting point of encouragement, learning and training has been at the heart of the company ever since."

Scott Graham, Co-Founder & Artistic Director '
https://www.franticassembly.co.uk/about

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtJzqfWOhCE&t=5s
the following link is a link to a video of revelations where you can see his style of dance.

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When given the task title I decided that I would like to create a dance piece based on the practitioner of my choice, being Alivin Ailey.
Alvin Ailey is an American Dance Theatre created in 1958 By the founder himself Alvin Ailey. Ailey used many styles of dance such as the following:
Jazz, ballet, contemporary and African American. The school was created for African Americans as research showed Ailey that there was no school for them to rehearse and with Ailey being African American himself he wanted to change this so that everyone had an equal opportunity to perform.

When researching into Ailey, I found that I enjoyed his First dance piece which he created in 1960 called 'Revelations'. This was the first dance piece he created, including 3 sections showing the life of the African Americans. He created this by using his blood memories to create a more moving effect on the audience. This is something which inspired me, so taking this and his contemporary style of dance I decided to begin creating a dance piece in this style.