Drama Weeks 5 and 6
I couldn't update last week so I'm doing it today!
Drama Week 5
Warm ups
Preparing ourselves as a group
Individual
Floor Work
Drama Week 6
Warm-ups
Intentions
Next week we need to look at Madame R in The Cherry Orchard and make 4 lists.
1. Facts - reliable, given biographical information age etc.
2. Everything that she says about herself
3. Everything that she says about everything else
4. What everyone else says about her
Then use this information to decide what type of animal she would be.
Creating a biography on a character to help us perfom them. Look in detail also at the scene between Varya and Leparkin, Act 4.
Drama Week 5
Warm ups
Preparing ourselves as a group
- balancing the space
- canoe/hug game
- patting game
- introvert/extrovert game - shyness or making eye contact
Individual
- body alignment
- head/neck/back relationship
- feet parallel, soft knees, relax pelvis, feel energy travelling up the spine
- head is like a ping-pong ball on a jet of water
- buddhist monk circulation thing
- jaw work
- rubbing chest, stomach, back and legs
Floor Work
- Preparing for breath
- visualisation
- Finding your centre
- breathing
- spine extension
- warm feeling spreading through your body
- Increase the circle of tension - expanding what we can hear outside of the room then reducing it to the room and our breath.
Drama Week 6
Warm-ups
- Free and relaxed body
- body alignment
- parts of importance; head, neck and back
- frozen images - importance of telling a story and being clear physically; not doing things half-heartedly
- relaxation - focus, concentration of the breath
- being a box - breathing through the back, sides and stomach
- looking at our "objects" - did we see them in a different light after centralising our bodies?
Intentions
- Moved into partners; one male, one female - same intentions; hating or loving. Just talking in normal conversational tones to portray these.
- Then A loved B but B hated A and vice versa
- Then we moved into two lines, facing our partners, doing the same kind of work but not being able to use body language, move or language.
- After Sian said "release" we were allowed to be more vocal and use body language; the tone and volume went up and we were definitely more extravagant with our actions.
- Then we worked with one line each from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" using just this one line to portray our point. Again at first we weren't allowed to use body language, then we were released from this but not allowed to touch our partners, before finally being allowed to move around the room and touch each other. Again A's loved B but B hated A.
- This showed the difference between an action and a meaning
- Demitirus - hate,run away
- Helena - love, hold onto him, not let him leave
Next week we need to look at Madame R in The Cherry Orchard and make 4 lists.
1. Facts - reliable, given biographical information age etc.
2. Everything that she says about herself
3. Everything that she says about everything else
4. What everyone else says about her
Then use this information to decide what type of animal she would be.
Creating a biography on a character to help us perfom them. Look in detail also at the scene between Varya and Leparkin, Act 4.