Proposal for FMP. Performance space

I am really glad that after studying A-levels I decided to do a Foundation course, because it completely changed my approach to all sort of projects. I became more organized, start to produce work on a daily basis, learnt how to do research and utilize all this information for my projects.

I’ve been doing different sorts of performing arts since very young. I started with gymnastics and acrobatics. At the age of 8 I got into choreography school, where I finished a classical and ethnic dance course. Once while talking with one of my tutors, I mentioned that I spent majority of my life dancing, so she suggested using this for my FMP. I think if I base my FMP on something that inspires me then it will be easier and more interesting to work on it. Recently I visited Royal Albert Hall, where I saw Totem performing by Cirque du Soleil. Artists, music, decorations, performance space and computer graphics made a profound impact on me.

In my FMP I want to explore how a performing space can improve a performance. For example, in Totem there was a special platform that was a major character of the show, because it could adjust to any scene with the help of projections and also its pop up structure. For my research, I plan to visit some dancing studios and performance spaces in London. I also intend to research on a human body movement, because I am thinking to create a space, which derives from forms of body movement. I recently visited John Pawson – Plain Space in Design Museum, where I saw a movie about his design of a dancing space in Italy. His design was as simple and clean as dancers’ movements.  I think I will experiment with medium and shapes, in order to find the most appropriate one. For resources I will look through the evolution of a performing space from Opera Houses to modern ones.  I might also further analyze structure of the human body, look through encyclopaedia and images. Flat-pack Christmas project and Seeds Dispersal were my favourite projects so far. So, I am planning to apply knowledge and skills from those projects to my FMP. In, my opinion, in Christmas project I solved the main problem of a pop out structure successfully and I am very proud of my final piece. As for Seeds Dispersal, I think my research worked very well with the final idea and I did a lot of experiments with medium and materials. I don’t have a final idea yet, but my project will be definitely about creating a performance space.

As part of my evaluation I will keep a blog, which will be updated almost on a daily basis, to show my working process, as well as a journal, which will be used as a reflection of the things that inspire me. I also will encourage my classmates to make some comments on my work and will be open for any type of a constructive criticism.