Day 7: Mime, Voice

Mime: Undulations and Samurai Stick

Undulations (advanced): Making undulations in both directions you can put accents on different phases you will discover that these accents become expressions. Rhese are some of the most fundamental moves of the human body and THE UUUNIVERSE!

Homework: find movements in life with undulations.

Pushing the Box: Resistance is indicated by sudden tension! Create a surface of a big heavy box (working mostly with hands) and then push it. Hands don't move. Normally when we would puch the wall for instance the body would fall into the wall, the hands would push around shoulder height and the weight goes to the back leg, while the front heel lifts of from the ground... In mime the weight goes to the front foot (heels up) and back leg straight with heels down. The pushing motion comes from the image of the boddy falling on the hands.

Samurai Stick: A kata/sequence of isolated movements.
First round on the count of 6: notice stick poking out from ground - step towards - pose - grasp (fixed point on stick) -move body close to stick - take it out and smash it on sth. (one movement, legs bend)

Second round: on the count of 9: notice - step - pose- grasp - look back at old stick - drop - look back at new stick -move close - and SMACK!

VOICE: This lesson was AWSOME!

We were lying on mats.
The task was to breath with knees up. After breathing for a while normally breath in deep into the chest, let it lift and breathing out make the stomach big as a mellon. (Was strange in the beginning, opposite of what I would expect...) Afte breathing out move around the chest and stomach like a seesaw. (Also pretty strange without air...)

In the next phase do it on the sides holding the body on the elboy with lower arm on the floor, shoulders relaxed. (Both sides)

The last phase is kneeling on the floor, top of the head on the ground betwwen hands, and rolling it back and forth while doing the same breathing. Repeat 2 more times with one knee in front (do both knees)

When done with this excercise lay on back and breathe with fingers on the side of ribs and feel the ribcage open to the side.

Continue with fingers on the front where the ribs go apart (Where it really hurts to get punched..)
And sigh, let an airy sound out as you breath.

When finished just walk around talk and sing and notice the changes...

Impro comes tonight...