This past Monday we had a workshop with frantic assembly theater company in preparation for our performance. Throughout the lesson we we through a series of exercises in pairs and groups. Some involved lifting someone, with their arms clamped around your shoulder. Another was lifting someone from the side, using your legs as strength not your back. This was a very physical activity, and quite tiring but beneficial as something we could incorporate into our plays.
The task we did was in pairs (my group was a 3) and it involved a lot of movement, We started off clamping a point on your partners body. We had to remember where we pressed and in the order we pressed it. Soon as we progressed we removed the hand movements and just added the movements making it more fluid and flowing. We had to add one push, and one pull and one of the lifts we learnt. After showing our movements we discussed how we could change the entire look of the piece without changing the actual movements. So we were given a full cup of water and we had to pass it to each other. Then someone had a cup of water and the rest of us tried to take it. While these two are essentially the same after discussing we learnt how small things could change how people viewed what we did. For example when passing the water it looked like brothers or friends sharing a drink however when we tried to take it it looked like 3 people going to war over water.
We also began lifting people in the class over our heads and walking them around. The main lessons I took away from the lesson was to trust your colleagues. If you don't then you cannot completely give yourself to the performance because you'll always be worried they aren't doing what they need to be. Also it use more energy and power when performing and move about in more fluid actions.
The task we did was in pairs (my group was a 3) and it involved a lot of movement, We started off clamping a point on your partners body. We had to remember where we pressed and in the order we pressed it. Soon as we progressed we removed the hand movements and just added the movements making it more fluid and flowing. We had to add one push, and one pull and one of the lifts we learnt. After showing our movements we discussed how we could change the entire look of the piece without changing the actual movements. So we were given a full cup of water and we had to pass it to each other. Then someone had a cup of water and the rest of us tried to take it. While these two are essentially the same after discussing we learnt how small things could change how people viewed what we did. For example when passing the water it looked like brothers or friends sharing a drink however when we tried to take it it looked like 3 people going to war over water.
We also began lifting people in the class over our heads and walking them around. The main lessons I took away from the lesson was to trust your colleagues. If you don't then you cannot completely give yourself to the performance because you'll always be worried they aren't doing what they need to be. Also it use more energy and power when performing and move about in more fluid actions.
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