Movement exercises for Story Telling

In this lesson (3^rd March) we were focused on Body Movement in storytelling. We were walking around the room and we were given animals/ objects to move as. For example we were walking around the room and when someone said be a cloud we would come up with our own interpretation on how a cloud would move as a cloud. The purpose of this type of exercise is so that instead of thinking how a specific object or human/animal would move, you move in the way you think it would move (interpretations). Personally I believe that it is rather easy as I didn’t feel judged or embarrassed about the way I was moving. To me I just instantly try and move like something you would associate with a certain object or animal/person. For example if someone said to be a cloud, I would straight away move like the wind that surrounds the clouds, (not literally) pushing birds or being snow or rain that falls from the cloud and how it falls in the sky. Towards the end of the class, we were split into separate groups and within the small groups of 3 or 4 one person was given an object they had to be, Tom was given a cloud that couldn’t fit in with other clouds. So with about 5 minutes to come up with a piece we started it off with a lift and to show that Tom is a cloud and is also the main focus. He then falls back and is caught and put down. Then I, Ashley and Dom huddled closely together to represent a different cloud. Tom moved to our cloud and bounced off all of the “sides” it was supposed to have. Then after we shows how the cloud was different, we showed our audience that it was in fact a snow cloud and we all then became the snow and showed the movement of how the snow would fall and then settle on the floor.