TERM: Neutral State
>Super Focus
>Relax
Activity 1: Isolation
> The body is STILL except for one body part
> The one body part comes ALIVE
- Fixed gazed
>>Extension of Activity
- Use Space
- Use Sound
-The use of space allows you to get comfortable with your surroundings.
-The use of sound energises space, the person around you.
*Important note
The presence of an awkward/insecure laughter becomes an uncommitted sound which is disengaging!
Activity 2: Leading a movement
>One person leads and the rest follow.
- Commit to movement
- Variation in one movement (Speed, Type, With feelings/emotions)
- Be Confident
- Have a clear thought/mind
- Clean and Sharp ending into neutral state
- Concentrate/Focus
- Find a meaning for that particular movement
- The details are important!
- What is your state mind?
- Having a motivation will make the movement meaningful.
>>Extension of an activity (In a circle)
- Intensify the movement
- Be direction-less
- Discover the cycle
- Pay attention to details (Which leg moves first? What is the last position? Fast or Slow speed?)
- Play with a situation at hand
- Expression (Body and Face)
- Sound + Action
- To intensify and exaggerate the movement by working harder to find a deeper meaning.
- It is okay that the movement was done are not 100% the same because everyone has a different energy.
- Each person will embody the movement offered and make it into their own unique style of action.
- Everyone draws inspiration by observing others.
>>Extension of an activity (In an open space)
- Everyone must be on the same page
- Alert
- Aware of people and surroundings
- Evolving a movement
- Development requires people who lead to take risks
- Learn to respond to each other's offer
- Play with speed, tempo, sound and levels
- Communication with the body
-The person must be brave enough to drop action and change it into their own.
-The person must trust that people will follow him/her.
Activity 3: Opposite Command
- Stop > Go
- Go > Stop
- Forward > Backwards
- Backwards > Forward
- Slow > Fast
- Fast > Slow
The only variation is the speed.
Activity 4: Form A Group
> Form a group of a required number.
> Failure to do so will result in a DRAMATIC DEATH!!
- Dying Dramatically can help work on expression using a scale of 1 - 5.
- Try to have a sharp finish.
Activity 5: Create A Picture With Your Body
>Create a gesture/shape with your body to express the sentence
Material Title: What have I been doing lately - Cabarrus County
What have I been doing lately
I was lying in bed
And the door bell rang
I ran downstairs
Quick I open the door
There was no one there
I stepped outside
Either it was drizzling or there was a lot of dust in the air, the dust was damp
I stuck out my tongue and the drizzle or the damp dust tasted like government school ink
I looked north
I looked south
I decided to start walking back
While walking north I noticed that I was barefoot
While walking north I looked up and saw the planet, Venus
- Need not be direct
- Remember to freeze after each gesture/shape
- Repeat sentence is to improve on your creation or practice it.
- Enhance the gesture/shape to create a stronger effect
- Sharp action
- Add emotions
- Play with heights, shapes, space and direction
- Try to express your emotion in another way.
Activity 6: Conflict Scene
>Saying the line and then go into your pose
> Repeat structure
- Improvising
- 1st person needs to establish the character and conflict
- Try a range of expression (Quiet - silence, Loud - Screaming)
- No eye contact
- Use words instead of actions to lash out your feelings
- Be vulnerable and expose yourself to take conflict onto a personal level.
- Say things that matter to you and not funny sentence
-You may find that the pose helps to draw out inspiration for the conflict.
-Everyone has to make things up with full commitment for it to be engaging.
TV Acting VS THEATRE Acting
-Tv acting has to be as real as possible
- Theatre acting is to create a make believe event, incident on stage.
- Theatre creates symbolic and metaphoric images.
- It gives people a sense of an idea without spoon-feeding them the information.
- Get them thinking
- The theatre is Abstract and Indirect like Picasso's Cubist Images that evoke feelings.
*Important to note
- Observation can help inspire creative ideas.
- Asking questions blocks and limits creativity.
