(Side note - I still have more photos to post from other travels before I got to Berlin, but I'm going out of order *GASP* to bring you a hint of the work I'm doing here.)
Anyways! The company I'm training/working with is called Familie Flöz. Two things you need to know about them: 1, they are awesome. 2, they have really cool masks.
LOTS of masks
And we get to play with them!
"wtf?," you may be asking. Let me back up a bit. So I've rejoined my ADA cohort for a summer term working with Familie Flöz in Berlin. We're spending 6 weeks learning their style of mask making and performance and developing a show based on our ancestors.
We have each chosen one of our ancestors, gathered information about them, and begun developing characters based on them.
For some, the chosen ancestor is one they know (a parent or grandparent) so they can take what they know of that person and build upon it.
Others, who have chosen someone a little further down their lineage, have the challenge/opportunity to develop character and mannerisms they think their ancestor may have had.
Right now we're working with masks from previous Flöz shows - ones that we felt had similar energies to our ancestors.
At the same time, we're building original masks in which we'll eventually perform, which also incorporate their facial features. (but that's another post on it's way!)
For now though, we're putting on these new faces,
Figuring out how to bring them to life,
How the get along with each other,
Or on their own,
And how they move.
I'll post more as we get further into the development process and our own masks start taking shape. For now though, we've got character quirks to find! (Be careful of this one...)
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