Monday, January 26th:
Theatre exercises and theatre games
Period 5:
“Flocking”:
Group of four
form a diamond. Music plays. The person at the downstage side of the point
begins a repetitive movement which the other people in the diamond follow. As the diamond rotates stage right or
left, the person who is now at the tip of the diamond subtlely changes the
movement which the other people in the diamond follow. The trick is to make the change fluid
and subtle so the transition to a new movement is not jarring.
Everyone finished the audition technique assignment: Poetry.
A Capella singing. The class is divided into two groups –
female and male – and each group sings a harmonizing round with movement.
Everyone participated!
Tuesday, January 27th:
Theatre exercises and theatre games
Alex ran class
Kids create a song: the song must have a subject; for
example: pirates or birds, etc.
Five kids in a group
One kid lays down the beat; another lays down the rhythm,
another lays down a melody, another lays some harmony, another lays down some
lyrics.
The Machine:
One kid makes a motion with a noise, another runs up and adds something
to the machine with an accompanying noise; another kid runs up and adds another
movement with a noise, thus
building the machine.
Work on scenes and monologues for the Twelfth Night auditions
Wednesday, January 28th:
Theatre exercises and theatre games
Stanislavski’s Objectless Acting
Discussion
Importance of imagination
“I Believe”
1. Draw
a circle with “I believe in” and lines radiating from the circle where you
write your core beliefs.
2. Choose
three of the most important core
beliefs. Write each core belief on a blank sheet of paper and do a quick write
about that core belief.
3. Choose the freewrite that is the MOST important to you right now.
Read it a few times.
Rewrite it to make it better.
You can change its form.
You can turn it into whatever you wish.
It can be a poem.
It can be a rap.
It can be a song, or a political speech, or a short story.
It can be whatever you want.
Use your own style and write from the heart.
Be honest.
Tell the truth about what you think, how you feel, and what you BELIEVE
Thursday, January 29th:
Alex showed excerpt from “Jaws”: Dreyfuss at beginning of
movie when he is describing a dismembered body of a swimmer and the other scene
when he is pulling items from a dead shark’s belly.
Questions:
What acting tools did Dryfuss use to create a believable
scene of looking at and describing a dismembered body?
Discussion
Stand up and share what you wrote with someone you have not
spoken to today.
Get in circle and share.
Reread what you wrote in “I Believe”. Sit back to back with another student and whisper what you
wrote in “I Believe”. Then mill and seethe, filling in the negative space. Stop and share what you wrote with another student.
At the end of class, to get in a positive space, get in circle
and share with someone standing next to you something that you like; for example, I like chocolate.
Friday, January 30th:
Theatre exercises and theatre games
Passed out sides for the auditions for Twelfth Night.
Theatre Games:
Triangle
New Game:
“A Gift For You!”
To teach openness, acceptance and imagination
Everyone stands in a circle. One actor turns to another and
says, “I know you like_____________, so I gave you this”, and hand to the other
actor an imaginary box. The other actor says, “Thank you! Oh, I love this! It’s
a _______________” and the student makes up something, which kicks off a short
improv. After a few moments, the actors move to other actors to repeat the
improv.
Passed out sides for Twelfth
Night.
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