22nd January

We started this lesson by doing quad jumping. This is when everybody splits into lines of equal numbers and everybody jumps on each beat and each row turns 180 degrees of different numbers up to 8. Although we all struggled to get the concept at first we eventually got it and were all moving around the room doing it. 

We then looked at Stylised Pedestrian Movement. We did this by going into our pairs that we are cast opposite, mine being Luke. We then had to come up with a few simple movements that our character might do in the performance. We had a judging look, a walk and a couple of other moves. We then had to put all of these together and add a few more in so we had a small physical theatre routine. We then had to pick a section of our choreography and adapt repetition, pace and exaggeration. We decided to slow down the walk to give it more power, we repeated the look at other times in the sequence and exaggerated being tied up. After we had done this we all took turns in our pairs to show the rest of the class one after the other to music by Cocorosie. Once the group before us finished we had to take their place and spin them off. I thought this looked really good and I thought the music really added another layer to the sequences. 

After we had done this we had to choose a page each from the script and worked with our opposite as well as Holly as our Lisa to perform the page in the same way to the movement piece before hand. We were tasked with involving as many appropriate movements from the piece before into our piece. I managed to include a few and I thought they worked really well. 

The first task really helped me to think of movements that would work well into the script that beforehand I might have seen as a bit out of place but this made them fit nicely.