Wednesday 16th November
To start off this lecture we carried out a very short warmup. We shook the body from the knees right up to the arms and hands. After this, we carried out some head rolls and gentle stretches to each side.
After the warmup we moved onto the main part of the lesson. Today we were focusing on improvisation. The task that we were set was to create an improvised piece based on a child who was seriously ill in hospital. There were originally 3 characters in the scene which were the mother, father and child. However, it took us a long time to become focused to start the task so our lecturer, Cara helped us and she joined in with the improvisation. She played the character of a doctor who was delivering some bad news to the parents of the child. For this scene I took on the role of the mother, Mikey took on the role of the dad and Angel took on the role of the child. To make this task a bit harder, we were asked how we could make and change the scene so that they fitted the styles of the 3 main practitioners within performing arts. These practitioners are called Antonin Artaud, Konstantin Stanislavasiki and Jerzy Grotowski. I found this part of the task quite difficult as I was unsure of what the styles of the 3 practitioners were. This lead us to having a discussion about the practitioners and what they did.
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