05/11/2013

Our lesson began with two games that developed our chorus work which both included communication without speaking and also focus. The first game was called 'Walk around stop' and the aim of the game is in the name really. Individually we all walked around the space avoiding to bump into one another by moving in straight lines. There's a ranking of walking speed from 0-5(0 meaning STOP and 5 being the fastest) and without speaking we had to all walk at the same speed from 0-5 and 5-0 in sync.
Afterwards we played 'School of fish' which is a choral technique where you have a group of people and together all move forward in the same direction and at the same speed. This effect looks really good from a birds eye view and quite coincidentally looks like a 'school of fish' in the sea.

In the second half of the lesson we refreshed our brains on what we worked on in the last lesson. We went back into our groups which we were to choreograph movements for the opening sequence of the nurse's speech. As a group we had to teach our movements to the entire class. Everyone showed the class what they had to put into this section and through this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaY-xLMlaCI&sns=em you can see what the piece looks like so far. In this run through we applied the chorus game exercises to this peice because it's a chorus peice. The games were exercises for individuals and an entire group and in the opening sequence of the boat and all the Medeas the focus is on everyone on stage and spotlights Medea.