Stagecraft
In today's lesson we continued with our exercise using chairs, based on Frantic Assembly.
We were put into pairs, I was with Chloe and were asked to compose 16 movements to create a tableaux, purely based on physical theatre and not involving any narrative or any hint of a story within the movements.
We were using naturalistic gestures and not involving any emotion. We did not just stay sitting on the chairs we mixed it up by changing seats within one movement phrase and towards the end of our tableaux I stood up from the chair in one phrase and took Chloe by the hand and moved her up and sat her down and Then I sat one phrase after her and we ended our piece by turning her heads towards each other, almost to acknowledge each other and then crossed our legs, both using the left leg. Our tableaux was very naturalistic an flowed very well. We tried out a lot of different ideas but as we began to improvise more with each other we found the movement phrases which worked for us. The movements were very light and were not bound to the space we were performing in.
We also learned about Stage Craft in today's lesson. Stage craft is the craft of an actor and the skills an actor learns to perform and work well on a stage. The craft of being able to wrk well on a stage is to constantly be aware of others around you, to maintain complicity with other performers on the stage and to Always have self awareness. Balancing the stage is very important as well as from an audiences point of view if the stage is not balanced it does not feel complete, and it looks unprofessional and crowded, space is important on the stage and an un balanced stage can cause upstaging, masking or accidents!
We did an exercise about balance on the stage where we all stood in a circle and two people stood in the middle and would use different areas of the space within the circle and the other person would have to balance out the circle, we described it as "The Axis" of planet earth, it has to be balanced otherwise it will not work.
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