DAY 3 — GROUP AS FORCE, TRANSFORMATION & WRONG REACTION

PROTOCOL — DAY 3

DATE

19 March 2025

REVIEW OF FIRST ÉTUDES

The group presented work involving the whole ensemble, smaller groups or a soloist altered by group presence.

ÉTUDE 2 — ACTION DISRUPTED

One performer begins a simple action; a group enters and performs a separate action without directly explaining itself; the group passes and exits; the original performer can no longer continue as before.

GROUP AS IMPERSONAL FORCE

The group could function as weather, pressure, memory, fate, social force, passing image or unexplained disturbance. It need not behave as several separate characters.

A → B

The soloist required a visible change, such as eating → refusing food, singing → losing the voice, moving → becoming still, pursuing → freezing, innocence → predation or openness → withdrawal. These are protocol examples, not formulas.

WRONG REACTION

A wrong reaction deviates from established expectation. The structure requires a recognisable event, expected response, different response and perceivable consequence.

EMOTIONAL LOGIC

A performance need not make complete narrative sense, but should make emotional or perceptual sense.

BEGINNING / MIDDLE / END

The concise protocol specifies a beginning, middle and end without requiring conventional storytelling; it requires perceivable progression.

PHYSICAL PREPARATION

The process shifted toward duet choreography, lifts, contact partnering, two physical phrases and duet/trio structures.

SOURCE

Complete protocol:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M3VoIGVRv2p6PBB3Kxr2cmxI6dQdzD5mldqTRZOF51s/edit

Concise protocol:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n5M3VaKZwJJRfLVPBTEgc8IH_iifYzNiMPGxA-XUMIQ/edit