DV8 Theatre Company

DV8 Theatre Company - My own research

The goal/aim of their company for the creative aspect and the rehearsal process is that it is proactive and that it brings each individual dancers personality to the stage.

This is a good aim because it gives each individual performer an equal opportunity as they are all working to their strengths. But there needs to be an aim for the performance itself in order to make it an effective piece. It is also important to use every cast member’s strengths together because if we only focus on one strength it won’t be as successful as we may wish it to be so we need to focus on the strengths of everybody in the cast.

 Every one of their performances are done in close collaboration with each performer that is chosen.

This makes the performance personal to each individual and this can be brought to the stage and the performance and gives it different perspectives which could create new performance possibilities.

They like to focus on more ‘shocking’ theatre.

Their production of Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men.

They like their work to give a message that has content.

It is good to have a moral to the performance because it makes it thought provoking and effective. However it is important that we don’t get too focused on the message of the story and detract from the performance itself.

The company is designed to take risks and to question people’s attitudes and beliefs within their performances.

Taking risks is something that I think we should use when devising because it makes the performance more interesting and it can lead to the creation or more performance possibilities.

They like to communicate ideas and feelings clearly and naturally.

This is important for us to follow because it drives the performance and it stops the cast and audience members from getting confused because what the performance is portraying and communicating, is obvious.

They like to focus on topics such as freedom of speech and human rights. 

Even though I didn’t get a reply from the above email, it was sent to the theatre company in order to get a clearer insight and understanding of how they work as a theatre company especially because their website doesn’t state how they devise as a theatre company or the processes that they go through.