24/09/14
On my first practical of the week after coming back from being sick with Tish we started off with our usual warm up such as rolling our bodies up and down and flopping down so our hands are touching the floor etc.
What we done next is something that the rest of the class had done the week before whilst working with Tish while I was off college and this was something that Tish called the 'circle hop'. What the circle hop consisted of was the class getting split up into two groups and going on opposite sides of the room and one group at a time would hop into a circle and go around in circles a few times to the beat of the music and then go back to their starting position in their corner of the room and then the other group did the same.
The next thing Tish had us do was to continue with the circle hope but add both of the groups into it and how we did this was by the first group starting off and then once they would get to a certain point within the circle hop the other group would then come in and start their sequence and the first group would go off and come back on again once it got to the point in which they came back on and done their sequence again.
The next thing we did was a dance phrase and it was based on the idea of an element of relief which included movements which expressed momentum. Whilst doing this dance phrase, each time we made the space smaller and smaller in order to show how our movements changed whilst in the enclosed space and it had an impact as our movements became smaller and less sharp as we did not have the room to intensely express our movements as we had done before when we were working in a larger and more open environment.
The last thing we done as usual was cooled down by taking nice deep breaths in and out and stretching and as we do in the warm up we done our flopping down to the floor and coming up very slow.
I enjoyed doing this piece because it was enjoyable and fun and we got to express something through movement and this lesson was probably the first lesson of doing physical theater that I actually felt comfortable throwing myself around the floor and letting go a little bit of the fear that I had of just doing something that I am not usually comfortable with.
For me this lesson taught me how much a small space can really effect how you perform to an audience, for example, if you are on a tiny stage and you have to do big movements but are unable to do so then the audience will not be intrigued as they would be if you had a larger space where you were really able to show off your big movements. This taught me that you shouldn't be afraid to use the space around you and if you have a lot of space then you should fill it because it can work really well when doing a physical theater piece as it allows your movements to be bigger and better.
Below is the video showing what we done in our practical with Tish:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152366979321778&set=o.1543422205881453&type=2&theater
Wednesday 8 October 2014
Newspaper article stimulus-Daniel practical
17/09/14, 18/09/14, 19/09/14
Daniel practical
On the 17th, 18th and 19th September I was absent from college as I was sick so was unable to be a part of the practical lessons with Daniel. Due to my absence my fellow class mates shared with me what they did on each oh the days that I was off to give me an insight into what I was doing and shared the videos with me to show me what they had done during the sessions.
The stimulus of the sessions were from newspaper articles and the class explored how using Steven Berkoff's techniques such as grotesque could make a performance more dynamic and interesting.
On the 17th of September the class done a piece based on the article 'One punch' based on a man who got killed by just one punch and what the class done was they based a scene around that article of the family of the man being in the hospital and being told that the man (their relative) had been killed. Instead of making the scene sad and emotional which is the typical way that a scene like this would be performed, the class decided to make it more grotesque and comedic by making the scene funny in the least harsh way that they could to make the scene differ to how others would probably interpret this specific article as a stimulus.
On the 18th of September the piece that the class performed was more serious than the previous performance. First the class started by picking words from the article and showing the words and NOT the story in the article.
Below is the video from the class's practical on Friday:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1478164695793407&set=o.1543422205881453&type=2&theater
Below is the video's from the class's practical on Thursday:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1478152239127986&set=o.1543422205881453&type=2&theater
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1478149792461564&set=o.1543422205881453&type=2&theater
Daniel practical
On the 17th, 18th and 19th September I was absent from college as I was sick so was unable to be a part of the practical lessons with Daniel. Due to my absence my fellow class mates shared with me what they did on each oh the days that I was off to give me an insight into what I was doing and shared the videos with me to show me what they had done during the sessions.
The stimulus of the sessions were from newspaper articles and the class explored how using Steven Berkoff's techniques such as grotesque could make a performance more dynamic and interesting.
On the 17th of September the class done a piece based on the article 'One punch' based on a man who got killed by just one punch and what the class done was they based a scene around that article of the family of the man being in the hospital and being told that the man (their relative) had been killed. Instead of making the scene sad and emotional which is the typical way that a scene like this would be performed, the class decided to make it more grotesque and comedic by making the scene funny in the least harsh way that they could to make the scene differ to how others would probably interpret this specific article as a stimulus.
On the 18th of September the piece that the class performed was more serious than the previous performance. First the class started by picking words from the article and showing the words and NOT the story in the article.
Below is the video from the class's practical on Friday:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1478164695793407&set=o.1543422205881453&type=2&theater
Below is the video's from the class's practical on Thursday:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1478152239127986&set=o.1543422205881453&type=2&theater
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1478149792461564&set=o.1543422205881453&type=2&theater
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