On today's MIME class we've been working with different speeds and levels...
Walking as fast as we can (still keeping the 'normal' walk), walking in slow motion, going down on and standing up in slowmo and walking while gradually going down with our knees and stretching up.
This was the warmup for further studies of the neutral opening and closing of the body.
We repeated the excercise from last week focusing on starting the movement from the center, moving together with the breathing and keeping the entire body in motion. Our specific task was to find in which parts of our bodies does this constant movement stop or break.
From this excercise we went on to the undulations back, fort and to the sides, working more with our bodies being lead by impulses f different parts, letting the impulse take us out of ballance, and let the new impulse lead the way again as we find our ballance again in a flow like manner.
We spanet the last minutes of the class practicing the chase.
With Ruth we continued the journey of the neutral mask, introducing the elements of water and fire.
At first we worked all on the floor individually exploring and incorporating the movements of the elements in different shapes and sizes. (Holy shit it was intense!) Afterwards we presented different aspects of elements for the class individually the in groups, without and with masks.
We've been reminded not to turn introverted, to go against the natural tendency of any expression focusing on the movements body that head (the face and the focus) gets lost.
Having the mask on akes it really visible if the performer is turning inside or is giving the mask (being aware and communicating)
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