The first exercise we did in pairs, we were using canon, unison, the space and mirroring. I was with Jade, and we both had to spell our names out using movements, and referring to LABAN techniques we learned last year. Jade and myself chose to use very light, in direct and flowing movements. Especially for my name I feel this worked as the letter S.O.P.H.I.A are mostly all free flowing, except the H maybe. The movements we chose were performed very slowly, and we used our whole bodies, and not just our hands or legs. We tried this in canon, unison and mirroring.
We then joined another pair which was Liam and Harry. They taught us their movements for their names, and visa versa. We performed these movements in canon, Harry and Liam would do the first movement and begin, then me and Jade would follow. We were all in complicity of each other and I concentrated very hard on the movements we were learning and the way my body moved with the letters.
The next exercise, was personally my favourite exercise I have learned since coming back for the second year! It was based on Improvisation, and using CHAIRS. We all had a chair each and created 4 different still images. My 4 images were; lying across the chair with my hands behind me on the floor, lying with my legs over the back of the chair with my head tilted back, crouching forward with the chair balancing on my back and lastly standing with the chair balancing on my head. After practicing our movements a few times, we were told to walk around the room using the space, with music playing and when the music stopped we would all get into a chair and our teacher would say a number 1-4 and we would get into one of our four still images we created. Our teacher Siou, took away 1 chair and when the music stopped we would all get onto a chair and into an image, apart from one person in our class. This person would then chose someone in a still image and approach them and create an improvised scene, based on what the person in the still image was doing and the aim was to try to get them out of the movement and free the chair. I loved this exercise as it allowed us to start improvising freely with movement and speech, it allowed us to act freely and build a narrative and a relationship with the other actor.
I really enjoy improvising, much more than I did last year. We as a class feel much more comfortable with each other, and we have almost grown up together as actors. This improvisation is called ACTIVE RECEPTIVE.
The actor who was beginning the scene would offer, accept and develop the scene.
I like the chair images Sophia.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you enjoyed the Active -Receptive impro game so much. You have come along way since last year in your ability to take risks and challenge yourself to create characters/scenarios etc. Well done.