Describe all exercises done today and answer the following questions:
- What did you learn?
- What did you achieve?
The first game we played was very simple in theory, but it seemed difficult for some to actually play game well. The exercise start by someone quickly deciding who to run to, and then running to them whilst keeping eye contact with their target. When realizing someone is running to you the 'target' has to then yell the runners name out loud and become the runner themselves by choosing their own target to sprint towards. The difficulty of this exercise was its simplicity, many might have thought that they are too good for this game or won't anyway needed, and so wouldn't put their 100% in doing it. The exercise was really about commitment and focus. You had to be fully committed to the game to make the best out of it. You also needed focus as the game became harder, as there were more than one runners. You really needed to focus on your target for them to notice you, and focus on everyone running, to know if one of them was targeting you. I really felt that this exercise was a good 'test' to see, who is really willing to go all the way and really commit to the game rather just thinking what they do is 'good-enough'.
The next exercise we have done in class quite many times, but it is still very useful. The exercise starts by everyone moving around the space in neutral, playing the game named 'Don't Bump Into Each Other', so basically you make a game out of not bumping into other people. This then goes into the next part where you have to jump in unison with the person in front of you, landing at the same time and then keep walking around. The last phase, what I call the 'Stop and Start', always starts everyone standing all around the space in neutral. The idea of the game is to be able to start or stop walking all at the same time, without communication or anyone leading the group. The movement should start with perfect complicity with everyone else, and getting that complicity is the goal of the exercise. To make the transition from still to walking a bit easier, we joined the stillness with a deep breath in, and as we start to breath out, the group would start walking all in unison. To this breath, we also added a chant "Rose, rose, rose,rose" every time before started to walk again. I think that every time we do this game as a group, we get closer and closer to the point of perfect complicity, but we still have a long way to go. The focus in our group can be extremely terrible from time to time, people starting to talk or giggle, and without some discipline it is unlikely that we will ever achieve complicity. But with some hard work and true focus, I know we have the potential for it.
The Clapping Chain is where the group gather around to a one large circle. One starts the chain with passing the clap to the person next to them by clapping their hands once both at the same time. The next person then turns to the person next to them on the right and passes the clap to them the same way as they received it before, by clapping hands once in unison. This is repeated with everyone first receiving a clap and then passing it down. All the way trough the chain, the group should keep a even rhythm with the claps, because as there are more clapping chains started, it is easy to lose track when is your turn. With focus, being ready to receive the next clap is very important, and so, after passing the clap down, you should right away move back to your left hand side to receive the next clap.
In the next exercise we were divided into four different groups and teach'd this song:
Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose
Shall I ever see the red
Aye, marry that thou shalt
Shall thou art dead.
This exercise was about developing the chorus, as all the four different groups would start to sing at different times, in canon. This exercises was a lot about being able to keep a rhythm within your own group, that would help us further develop complicity.
After the chant we were given a sheet with two songs of Ariel's from the Shakespeare's play The Tempest. We started off by reading each song with the whole group in a circle, each reading one word at a time. This was to find the rhythm within these little songs, but also transfer the words into songs, since we did not really know, how the actual melody went. After this, we were divided into two group, each having one of the songs of Ariel's to work on. We were supposed to learn the song, with each group member having a line from the song. Then we had to perform the song to the other song, keeping a certain rhythm whilst reading it. With this the idea was to really find music within the text. This was a real focus exercise, since you needed to be alert the whole time to hit the beat the right time with your line.
Reaction to Round-By-Trough exercise
This exercise was to eventually turn it into part of our performance, linking each scene together. We were divided into pairs, our partner being someone from our devising group. Our mission was to create a 12 beat movement piece, with using the idea of going either round, by or trough your partner. After this we went back to our full devising groups showing each other the ideas we had and then combining them to create an initial movement piece. With this exercise we really needed to get comfortable with each other and be able to be close to each without feeling awkward or afraid. It was also a sort of a trust exercise, especially when we added some lifts into the movement. I personally really liked this, even though it did feel a bit awkward at first, but after a while I realized how silly it was of me to feel uncomfortable with people I was going to perform with.
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