At Thursday the group began their workshop with different kind of exercises, which were supposed to make the pupils feel more comfortable. The pupils did a variety of trust exercises, e.g the one in which you fall backwards and someone grab you, maybe...
At Friday the workshop got properly to action. When we arrived to the workshop, all the pupils were hopping in the rhythm of music in lines of three persons. After a while, when the hopping was practiced to its best, the pupils formed pairs, and one group of three. They were given a task; each group had to make up a sequence of 12 moves "relating to round by through". The plan was, that the groups repeat these sequences over and over again, like in a loop.
The physical theatre is about using your body in variety of ways. One of the things in physical theatre is to make contact, both physical and mental, with the others. That makes the performances atmosphere more intimate and makes the performance much more interesting to watch.
When we were watching the action in the workshop from the side, we saw influences of many different thing used by the pupils. We saw for example methods of ballet, modern dancing, fighting etc. being used.
The overall look of the workshop seemed nice and worm, and all the students seemed to have fun. :) In Sunday we'll see what they have came up with... ;) |
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