Saturday, 21 March 2015

On the drama double period we had on the 20th of March, we were able to make significant progress on the physicalisation of the piece, as well as learn more about Meyerhold's type of physicalisation. We had received some feedback from Mr Raciti to make our piece more physical, as for the majority of our piece before Friday did not have much choreographed/organised physicalisation in it, as every time we tried to organise some choreographed movement, we had some quite divided opinions, more noticeably between some of the 'orphans' (Guzzler, Gazer, Gloom etc) and the Mistress and Wild One, as Mistress and Wild One decided to do their scenes while the rest of us stood there, being directed by Nina and Juliette.

For the first period of the double, we all watched a few short videos showing us two different exaggerated physical training actions, 'The Shake'; a greatly choreographed and exaggerated handshake, and 'The Slap'; an action that shows an exaggerated slap. We practised these, and then we did another training technique involving a 1.5 metre stalk of bamboo, where 2 people pushed on either end of the stalk, and therefore counterbalanced, with a distance of 1.5 metres between us. The activity showed the purpose of every action, that in training of Meyerhold every action had a purpose. Two actors would not be close together for no reason, and therefore would be further apart unless intimacy was suggested.

For the second period, we worked on our assignment. Our group was able to choreograph a bit more physicalisation, from just looks at a specific time, to complex actions from cues given. There were a few disagreements, but it was easier to work it all out than it was the previous lesson, when we were unable to agree on anything. The lesson was productive, and the piece is beginning to really take shape and form into something that could be really awesome!

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