we need to shape up guys!
Anyways...
MIME:
On today's mime lesson we worked mostly with some of the basics.
We started out with the 'classical' Ole warmup, the counting back stretches with a new element: bending forwards over one leg crossed over the other with the ankle over the supporting knee...
and also impulse excercises and the Idiot Says Hi.
We reached the final form of the screwdriwer excercise, doing one arm in one directions the other in the opposite which makes it into a kind of windmill and worked some more on the
frontal Mime Walk illusion.
HOMEWORK: Observe how the movements of people look walking towards us with a slanted eye
(it should be easier to notice the images of the movements this way)
AND STUDY WALKING UP AND DOWN ON STAIRS for Monday!
We finsihed with some rather intense stretches:
Both feet pointing frowards we step forward with one leg straight (feet flat on the floor) support our weight with our hands on the floor then bending and stretching each leg.
On the IMPRO class we started working with music!
The main note for this class was to treat the music as our partner. Go with it, go against it, let the images conjured up by the music influence us... But do not dance with the music or ignore it. Definetly not ignore it.
Music is not just a wallpaper.
We wroked with Tristtango from Astor Piazzola and a Schuman piece called Finnegan's Cave individually and in groups. (both of which was trippy and hilarious)
My personal experience was that after getting to know the details of ech piece of music it helped both with getting the images clear and with the group communication (if we did not ignore the music, and forced our own stories...)
It seemed to me that even though our individual visions might have been VERY different listening to each other was much easier beacuase the music naturally provided a common thread, so we could switch the intellect off easier and follow the basic impulses of the partners much faster.
My personal experience
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