Welcome to the material world

This thursday we had a few new acro moves moved on the study of different materials.

ACROBATICS:

We did big cartwheels trying to put one hand over another. The next level will be lifting the upper hand...

(Trying to make an upper hand joke here but nothing comes to my mind!)

We also did forward rolls... from handstands! The trick is to work a LOT with the arms.

The last new thing was making front rolls over each other. One squatting on the floor the other dives forward on the hands.

NEUTRAL MASK:


Ole  mentioned that the whole point of the neutral mask work we've been doing so far is provoking and being provoked... Just by the way :-)


We did a lot of mind blowing stuff.

Starting with embodying spring... The violence of spring.
Everything cracks open bursting with life.

Coccoons, eggs, plants from the frozen winter soil, animals shaking off hybernation.

It bursts, spreads and expands.

The movement of spring is a release of tension.

From here we moved on tho the materials:

We embodied different materials:

Clay, porcelain, glass, crystal and diamond. (In this order with increasing tension)

We studied how these materials would fall apart.
Striking a pose and collapsing on the sign of the snaredrum (I love the snaredrum!)

 In how many pieces and how much tension would they hold after collapsing. (The more tension a material had the more pieces it fell apart to, and the less tension it held...)

Notice the rhythm of the collapse! How many movements and in what pace...

The first part of the excercise we've been doing the collapse with our whole body, then we moved on to the voice.

We would strike a pose again but we would start making the sound of the material.
While making the sound, we would loose the pose and do the breakdown with our voice.

Afterwards we would say a childhood rhyme with the sound of the materials.

The result's were hilarious, letting ourselves be provoked by the images of the materials (the sounds of images to be all synesthetic...) created some sounds that would be hard to find consciously.
Surprising ourselves is great!

NOTE: We often forgot to lose the pose, and to look at the audience.