Single - Physical work

In the past few lessons, the class have been working on the introduction to the show that we're doing "The curious incident of the dog in the night time". We have done an exercise which involves us walking around in a space, our paces get faster and faster until we are nearly running in gaps however we aren't allowed to run into each other or communicate with each other. I believe that by doing this exercise it will help us create a "busy" atmosphere later on in the play.

Today (29/09/14) we started to do some physical work, carrying other people and leaning ways in which it is easiest to carry them as the character of Christopher is involved with a lot of physical theatre . This will prepare us as a class for show and it will help me and some others in our physical theatre lessons as we are gaining the ability to work together as a team and slowly trust each other when throwing our bodies at each other.

Double - Story Telling Through Dance

At the beginning of the lesson we watched two different clips of ways people tell story's within performing arts, we noticed that in one show there was some sort of narration so the audience were being told whereas in the other clip of 'The Lion King', the audience would intemperate the show in their own way. In my view it is a lot better if there is no narration as everyone sees things in a different way and some things can mean more or less to others. We started to do this dance in which it tells a story of a man who falls in love with a prostitute however he is married, the way we tell the story in my view shows his emotions for this woman and how her 'job' puts him down as he knows that there are other guys performing sexual acts with her, the end of the dance in my view shows that he has to go back to the 'reality', as in he has to go back being with someone that he clearly didn't want to be with seeing as he cheated on her with a prostitute. The lesson was challenging as I'm not used to dancing however my target for this course is to push myself out of my comfort zone as it would help me gain a full experience of the performing arts industry.

Single - Performing Arts

Myself, Tom and Kyle have been put into a group of 3, our task is to come up with a piece that tells the story of "The deathly hallows" in the Harry Potter franchises. So far we have come up with the idea of introducing Death as he plays a major role in the story and we can tell the story a lot more easily. Our introduction includes death taking a loved one from one of the brothers as it shows the audience that we have considered different views and a different way of adding to the story. Our way of showing death is put into a dance showing the power that death has, it will be danced to by  No more sorrow - Linkin Park