Firday was a very insightful day.
We started with MIME class with massive amounts of undulations (front, sides on the floor... mmmm, on the floor)
Then we moved on to the new excercise of Pulling the Rope which pretty comes from the sidward undulation. Some of the basic guidlines are (true for all mime stuff) pulling something means that hands move last. Remembeer fixed points and to fall into the pulling motion. And the footwork... Same as pushing stuff, heels go up on the foot that holds the bodyweight.
On Voiceclass we did the advanced vrison of the reaching to the sky feldenkrais stuff we did one of the first lessons. As we reached up with arms and shoulders we rotated the hips to totherside giving the spine a twist and opening the chest. Good one!
On Mask class we showed our friday groupwork and ole went throuh each piece and character for possible improvements....
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Masks Play Poker (23/11/11)
Hello Team!
Well, in ACROBATICS today, we didn't really do anything new. If you can remember anything, then please post it, otherwise this day in Acrobatics will be forgotten forever in history.
I'll wait...
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...very good, thank you.
Now, in MASK this day we did TONS of new stuff!
1) We started with Masks on a Beach. Hilarious! It works the best when you don't force anything to happen. Don't forget to give the mask to the audience all the time. Also, give yourself a functional task to do on the beach so that there is some activity to keep the mask alive.
2) Hold the mask tightly in your hand with your fingers on the top. Now look at the mask at different angles. Now have the mask take a look at different parts of you.
3) Masks Playing Poker--four people enter the stage where there sit four chairs in a half circle position as if around a card table. Someone deals the cards. The four masks play a card game. Eventually someone wins and everyone exits.
-Every time something happens, look at the thing that happened (like someone playing a card or someone exiting or someone winning, etc) then react in the direction of the audience.
Words of advice:
-Don't confuse the movement of the mask with too much movement--ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT!!!
-Isolate one part of your body and move that part in order to react to something.
-Pick one emotion (or make one character choice) and choose only a few specific movements and use those for the character. Then find different degrees of that emotion/choice to play with on stage.
Well, there you have it. Now, who wants to play poker?...........no, I'm serious..........
Sincerely,
This Guy Roby
Monday, November 21, 2011
holaaaa people beautiful people......
First of all i just want to say something...on friday we had the melodramma show of 2 year...
i really enjoyed the show.because of them ,they were great,but even because i enjoyed too much to see our fitness hall,swimming pool.school.whatever i call it, transformed like that.A lot of people came and with the low light and everything i saw in front of me this transformation that really emotioneted a lot.
It showed to me the long or short way that we have in front of us and a point where in the future we all are going to pass by.For me acting is really new and seeing the show uuuuuu i am going to be in that stage like them...I felt i think the same emotions and nervosism they felt ,because was seeing myself not too far in the future......
ok lets begin....after one week of no fisik attivities,
impulse ...leg in front behind,left right .find the center ,the head and all the body strecht up dont move looking forward...
-sit down cross legs ,leave the head reach the floor and push the hands in front and release
-open legs and with both hands on the same leg push and pull....move the back
-legs in front hands on legs back streight head reach up and the 4 movements in front back down up...
then you join even looking up streching the neck and back till 8
-cross legs,head on a side,open shoulders,and move the back and the head on the side try to reach the floor
-stretching open legs bottom down hands on the knees shoulders go up and look behind
-then go down and sit on one flat feet, knee outside ,body in front inside the knee
-then we began to experiment the different ways of walking...
-ok walk on thumbs,on toes,inside part of the leg ,outside part,one leg inside part one leg outside leg....
-walk in the streight line ,like you walk in one string or walk with the legs apart each other in 20 cm and you walk up 2 strings paralele to each other
-walk with the both toes that goes inside ,or with the both toes that goes outside...
-walk with this different ways of putting the legs on the floor together with the different part of the body...
one time the knees are the one that give the impulse ,then the head has the impulse,the chest and the beli....
-so try to exersice all this different ways of walking ....try to make in the most natural way relaxed one and try even to exagerate ,that all the body get influenzed of one movement you do.....
2 part of the class......
we began with the exerzice of the eye that look from the key...
this helps a lot in focusing .see how you can see from your mask ....how you get more dettails,how you get near or far to see the things better..the same method we are going to use with the mask
then ...was the fisrt time that we had our own masks....so we had a chair and we had to take the mask and make it life.....
Important.....THE CHARACTER IS IN THE FOOT...all the exercise that we did the first part are really important to understand that different way of showing our boddy different characters we create...
so specially for the fully masks where the body movement is really important is importanat to built your own character with the body
Dont think to much.....See the mask for one minute,follow what the mask says to you,Not think about
And you put the body in the position the mask say to you and for all the time you have to keep the same but in a relaxed way however....
Masks do irrational things...
Let yourself to be surprised
Relax yourself....
There are really nice masks in the class.we just have to work a litlle bit and maybe we can do the mask show.....i would really like ....so come people training and relaxing
by and love
First of all i just want to say something...on friday we had the melodramma show of 2 year...
i really enjoyed the show.because of them ,they were great,but even because i enjoyed too much to see our fitness hall,swimming pool.school.whatever i call it, transformed like that.A lot of people came and with the low light and everything i saw in front of me this transformation that really emotioneted a lot.
It showed to me the long or short way that we have in front of us and a point where in the future we all are going to pass by.For me acting is really new and seeing the show uuuuuu i am going to be in that stage like them...I felt i think the same emotions and nervosism they felt ,because was seeing myself not too far in the future......
ok lets begin....after one week of no fisik attivities,
impulse ...leg in front behind,left right .find the center ,the head and all the body strecht up dont move looking forward...
-sit down cross legs ,leave the head reach the floor and push the hands in front and release
-open legs and with both hands on the same leg push and pull....move the back
-legs in front hands on legs back streight head reach up and the 4 movements in front back down up...
then you join even looking up streching the neck and back till 8
-cross legs,head on a side,open shoulders,and move the back and the head on the side try to reach the floor
-stretching open legs bottom down hands on the knees shoulders go up and look behind
-then go down and sit on one flat feet, knee outside ,body in front inside the knee
-then we began to experiment the different ways of walking...
-ok walk on thumbs,on toes,inside part of the leg ,outside part,one leg inside part one leg outside leg....
-walk in the streight line ,like you walk in one string or walk with the legs apart each other in 20 cm and you walk up 2 strings paralele to each other
-walk with the both toes that goes inside ,or with the both toes that goes outside...
-walk with this different ways of putting the legs on the floor together with the different part of the body...
one time the knees are the one that give the impulse ,then the head has the impulse,the chest and the beli....
-so try to exersice all this different ways of walking ....try to make in the most natural way relaxed one and try even to exagerate ,that all the body get influenzed of one movement you do.....
2 part of the class......
we began with the exerzice of the eye that look from the key...
this helps a lot in focusing .see how you can see from your mask ....how you get more dettails,how you get near or far to see the things better..the same method we are going to use with the mask
then ...was the fisrt time that we had our own masks....so we had a chair and we had to take the mask and make it life.....
Important.....THE CHARACTER IS IN THE FOOT...all the exercise that we did the first part are really important to understand that different way of showing our boddy different characters we create...
so specially for the fully masks where the body movement is really important is importanat to built your own character with the body
Dont think to much.....See the mask for one minute,follow what the mask says to you,Not think about
And you put the body in the position the mask say to you and for all the time you have to keep the same but in a relaxed way however....
Masks do irrational things...
Let yourself to be surprised
Relax yourself....
There are really nice masks in the class.we just have to work a litlle bit and maybe we can do the mask show.....i would really like ....so come people training and relaxing
by and love
Friday, November 11, 2011
Spotlights, Keyholes, Imaginary Stretches and Countermask!
This friday was aa rather overwhelming one.
We started with MIME class where we've been focusing mostly on isolations connected to maskwork.
After the usual warmup we went through the isolation excercises by our selves (as a reminder to paractice in our free time...)
We did the keyhole excercise again, watching through a hole in our fistss to reproduce the sensation of focusing through a mask. (Move, notice, stop, focus)
Afterwards we moverd on to a new excercise for the maskwork. We called it spotlight. We imagined a spotlight attached to our foreheads and had see things with the spotlight. Keeping our eyes alligned with our head, trying to see noticing everything on the way as our head moves in different directions without any jumps with our eyes.
(It helped me to concentrate on the image of the spotlight, because having a too small focus point is really hard to maintain...)
After this we moved on to VOICEWORK:
We had a new excercise:
First: As we sat we grabbed one leg with the same arm on the heel, and with the other by the toes, turning the other leg back.
We moved the leg being held in circles towards the back of the head and back down again in the same curve. (Doesn't matter how far we could reach)
Second:
BRB!!!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Hickory Dickory Dock and "Rolling on a Block" (by Adele)
Class 10/11/11
Well, hello my amigos y amigas.
Escuchame!
ACROBATICS
New stuff:
-We began the day by warming up walking around the room...with bigger and bigger steps...then maximum big steps...then even bigger...then suddenly to small steps...and even smaller...then walking normally. How fun!
-Headstands. Sounds the same, you say. Read on, reader. We were challenged today to move on from the headstand where we have our hands on the top of our heads INTO the nose-cruncher. Booya! Work on it!
-Break dancing move. Swing the leg around and around, keeping it straight, and lifting your hands and other foot out of the way. I find it helpful to place my two hands and non-swinging foot in a triangle formation, so there's always two of the three on the ground. Also, I find it helps to keep my weight rocking around opposite of my swinging leg, which requires leaning my upper body around and around.
-The Throne (sitting on your partner's feet while they lie on their back). Let's add running into the throne position, and then eventually running and jumping into the throne position. Person sitting on the throne: this requires placing all your weight on your hands for as long as possible until your weight is well balanced on your partner.
-Front rolls. Except this time, let's roll on a box and sit on the end of it! Jump into the roll so that your head may end up off the edge of the box you're grabbing onto. Grab onto the very corners of the box, perhaps for stability.
IMPROV/MASK
"Your body must be aware of the space, because with masks you don't know what the hell everyone else is doing. You're blind." -- Ole Brekke
-First, we heard the children's rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock" recited by our very own Ole Brekke. We then reenacted the poem on our own according to the rhythm and sound of the poem, NOT according to the words of the poem. Then we split up into groups of three and choreographed bits of movement to this poem. Gorgeous!
-To further emphasize NOT acting out the words, we heard poems from different languages and moved our bodies according to whatever images came to mind as someone recited the poem out loud. Beautiful, people. Suprisingly accurate with the story of the poem itself. Just goes to show how much the sound and rhythm of words have to do with the actual meaning.
-Then, we moved on to choreographing movement pieces to the poems "And If" and "Light Pole" in groups.
-Finally, we began to play with our masks by setting up a scenario in a library.
Three masked characters.
Character 1 (C1) enters the library, giving the mask to the audience, looking for something. There is a change (either of tempo or intention).
Character 2 (C2) enters (make noise, make it easy for C1 to know you've entered, because remember you're all blind). C1 leaves. There is a change in C2.
Character 3 (C3) enters from the other side. C2 and C3 interact. There is a change.
C1 reenters. You all interact. Find an ending.
Things of NOTE:
1. Masks are caricatures, so make your movements and your body position as big as possible according to how the mask inspires you, according to what images the mask gives you. Take a moment to look at the mask before you create a character out of it.
2. Focus on the objects or people first, THEN react and give the mask to the audience (aka, keep your body completely still as you look at the object of your attention, then look at the audience with your reaction to that object).
3. Stick to just a few certain movements for your mask character instead of establishing new movements. This makes who the character is extremely easy for the audience to interpret and understand.
4. Push your poses bigger. Make everything bigger with a mask on!
Appreciation and Maskication,
David
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