Tuesday, May 10, 2016

May 9, 2016 - May 13, 2016 Weekly Agenda for Acting Class

Monday, May 9th:
Ms. Bridges is not here today

Tuesday, May 10th:

Finished off “The Subtext Exercise”
Ricardo: Wants to be fired from his law firm
Justin: Wants to lose a case so that he can keep an enemy in prison

Karla: pretending to be a doctor
Whitney: is sexually active but is ashamed to admit it to her doctor

Luiza – at seventeen, secretly married her boyfriend
Gus – secretly divorced his wife last night

Played theatre game –
Weird behavior triggers
Chynna, Sarena, Whitney, Elizabeth

Wednesday, May 11th: 

Warm-ups:
Relaxation
Emotion Memory

Last subtext scene:
Katya: a girl who is desperate for attention calls 911 and threatens to commit suicide.
Akili: the 911 dispatcher who wants to go home. 

Thursday, May 12th: 
Warm-ups:
Dance and Movement warm-ups led by Akili
Creating a Character: 
Passed out photos and allowed students to pick a photo  of a person
Students then write a quick write about the photo: images, words, adjectives, phrases, sentences, narratives, etc.  

Friday, May 13th: 


Most people not here today due to prom.
Warm-ups:
Walking meditation
Thinking about character:
Size – how does that affect one’s sense of self?
How does sense of self affect how one moves through space?
Where is the character?
Is it a city? A village?
In what country? Who is s/he surrounded by – friends, family, people who s/he trusts? Or enemies?
What is his/her status?
 


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