Movement

Week 1
In today’s lesson we started off with the introduction to the movement session by getting, as we continued with starting off with using shapes through lane movement as we’d take on shape as objects as well puddles through representing ways of expressing the chosen action through different ways of using the body. I found this rather difficult to do in the beginning as I wasn’t able to be as creative with my body through using my limbs.

I would like to improve on strengthening my shapes or to improve on my confidence with using different ways to move across the lane through exploring different ways of moving.

Week 2
We started off with our sun salutations in the morning as well exploring the space through moving around freely as we would get use to the walls as well objects around us and how we would use them, we then moved onto trying out as how we would use a lion whilst moving around as a lion, wall, hero, and princess in the space for which we would work on exaggerating that movement from strengthening shapes and directions.

I found this rather easier than before as we was to try different ways in creating the character/creature/object through movement such as a lion standing on both two feet as a human.

Week 3
We started off with doing our sun salutations once again as we then moved into doing lane work once again as it was important to try and do something outside of the box instead of trying to pick or assume what I was to do, such as being more experimental with the wall movement as I started on doing the sheep flock which is where we had one person leading the group with different various movement as we wasn’t allowed to split up.

In the flock we would have different people taking part; I found this rather easier than any other exercise as it was to improve our coordination skills with movement, cooperation as well special awareness.

Week 4

In today’s session we continued with doing the warm ups whilst taking it in turns which then the person who was chosen was able to start off slow or fast and gradually gained speed during repeating the one position as we then started with moving onto using the space with five people at the least being in the space as we would be allowed to freely explore the characters and we’d use our interpretation of the movement for the movement and how they’d react to the space.

This steadily got easier for me each day from continuously practicing it however I found it difficult to still play certain characters such as the princess or wall and how to creatively create such movements.

Week 5
We started to work on the playing with gestures as well repeating them in a consistent routine which then we played around with the tempo as well speed, we’d take a position on the space as we would then start off with a normal speed in repeating the same movement which then our peers would suggest to have it quicker or slower or more dramatic or less dramatic as in making it bigger or smaller, after this we got into groups for which we would use multiple movements and sounds to represent a machine.

I found this hard to do as we was in a group of two and that we had to remember multiple different actions and noises in a certain pattern for which we had to speed up or slow down and that my concentration needed to be improved, I improved on my concentration by doing more focus exercises in class.

Week 6
In today’s lesson I started off with the sun salutations as well normal bodily exercises such as the head turning and spine rolls to relieve the body of any tension, we then moved onto doing movement once again as we continued with doing the different movement patterns as well actions for which then we would work on adding levels to the action to make it bigger and bolded, I’ve improved on it by practicing with exploring different variations of movement as well heights and levels.

Week 7
In today’s lesson we started to explore the chair piece exercise for where we chose our partners in by exploring different heights and shapes in making a short repeated pattern with the chair, the music was involved afterwards to see whether it would make any difference as this effected the speed as well way’s it way’s such as more lighter movement or flowing with a soft soothing movement.

I found this to be more relaxing as well adaptable than any other exercise for which we was capable to take our time in as well to explore how we could use our body’s to connect with the chair in representing a story as for the rest of the session we learned about In All Languages such as the duet.

Week 8
In today’s session we was given our sheets for the a midsummer Night’s Dream, we started to use our practice on exploring the lion from our first sessions for the performance in using the lion as well wall and other roles in the performance, we discussed about the performance at first for which then we moved onto pairing up into groups for which then we started to assign our own roles and discussed about how we’re performing the piece.

We decided that we wanted to perform as a bad hammy comedy for which then we allocated roles to each other for which I played as the Lion, we begun working on our first scene which was meant to be a practice scene until it went really well during the showcasing.

I wasn’t able to finish the scene as it still had timing issues which I would like to improve on, I can improve on this by working on the queuing as well timing for the next lesson.

Week 9

In the ninth week, we started to polish and rework the first scene to make it more coordinated as well use of spatial awareness, as we was missing some members we continued to working on it alone as a pair for which we moved onto starting the next scene which involved moonshine as I decided to play this character. I found it rather hard to transition from the lion to the moonshine character, as this was still rough we started to develop on the scene which then we moved onto doing a short run through from the first scene to the other.

The position started was difficult due to the change as it didn’t make sense at first yet people found it funny due to how bad it was, I improved on this by standing still and announcing the change to the role with a flow like movement whilst saying moonshine which then I went straight into interacting with the prince.

It seemed that my changing role was quite deliberate which I needed to make it that I catch myself off guard with it by doing it unexpectedly.

Week 10

We started the day off with more warm ups which then we moved onto doing some space work straight afters, following with another rehearsal for the performance which we then moved onto polishing the scenes more as then the princess scene was being discussed for the next session, after finishing a run through example.

I’d like to improve on the actions with the characters by making the movement bigger or exaggerated as if it was purposely set to look sluggish yet funny which then I had to work on improving moonshines movement.

Week 11
We started to merge with another group first thing in the morning due to missing amount of people, however we was able to mix in with another group without any problems as we involved their pieces as well ours by discussing and arranging the queuing order of each performance.
I found this difficult at first due to them not being able to match as the transitioning’s made it quite hard yet we was able to modify each one so they would flow into each other perfectly smoothly.

Week 12

We continued to move on with arranging the scene’s which then eventually they met, after the scenes we started to work on the last two scene’s which was to do with the wall and the prince and princess talking which then went into the ending with the lion and all of the characters coming in which would be the same prince’s, princess’s and lion’s repeating the same actions as they’d be confused who the actual prince and princess is until the lion roars and scares them.

We found the last scene to be rather difficult as it had some safety issues such as people landing on each other or even piling which could’ve been dangerous so we decided to change and finalize it as the lion’s entrance and exit.

Week 13
Today was the day we started to do a couple of rehearsals as well final discussions about finalizing the performance which then we moved straight onto stage setting, once everything was ready we moved onto getting in an audience waiting for our performance, as we started to do our full performance everything went smoothly, however after the performance we did a small brief on how we thought it went.

I think that I could’ve improved on exploring further with the use of flow when coming to movement as I only used the levels, speed and light and heavy movement.

Week 14
In the final week of movement we entered a circle which then we started to do a full session on feedback about how we thought the performance went and how we could’ve improved on this in future, I thought the performance was quite enjoyable and fun as we was allowed to have the chance to freely explore all kinds of levels and movements that we could’ve found to be uncomfortable and to use that to our advantage.