Devising skills
During this lesson we connected with our inner child like minds. We participated in exercises such as the recreation of a dream with our physical body, in order to help us connect to the creative side we were more in tune with as children.
I was most confident in using my physical body to tell the story of my dream as I was able to also use my facial expressions to link the emotions towards certain objects with my physicality.
Children’s Theatre
Theatre for children is so vulnerable because it gives children an opportunity to embrace their creativity and find even more ways to enlarge their creative thoughts. As we grow older many of us seem to engage ourselves with only the realistic side of life however by having theatre performances for children, it helps them keep hold of their creativity and keeps their imagination from fading away as they grow older.
http://www.polkatheatre.com/
The Polka Theatre
· Theatre for children from babies to young children
· Also produce workshops to express art and creativity
· Currently showing at the theatre is “Puss In Boots”
· Polka theatre can help us with our performance as we are able to take certain skills that they use with their performances. “polka is all about fun, laughter and creativity” by using this motto we can incorporate our performance by always making sure that these three emotions is what the children always feel when watching the performance.
https://www.unicorntheatre.com/
Unicorn theatre
· The unicorn theatre is a theatre company that creates performances for the younger generation
· Currently on at the Unicorn theatre is “sometimes that’s all you need”
· The unicorn theatre can help us when creating our own performance as we can analyse the way in which the use physical theatre in order to create scenery.
During today’s lesson we firstly started off by warming up to a game of “sleeping bunnies”. It enabled us to open up our minds into getting into the creative and imaginative world. We then had to remember a dream and create that dream by moving around the room increasing and decreasing how much we expressed the movements at certain moments. We then used that dream to describe to a partner who stood directly opposite us and we had to describe the dream to them with our physicality. This was effective because it meant that we had to put a lot of concentration and effort in order to get our partners to understand exactly what was going on in our dream without verbally saying it.
We then led on to creating a sound and movement machine which consisted of having one person begin in the centre of the room making a machine styled action within four beats. The action could be the movement of a machine dropping and moving something on to the next stage. We also included vocal sounds to go with the action that we were creating. Since it was a machine, it was very important to analyse the piece as a whole and pick the right moment to enter the machine piece to incorporate your own movement. As I started the first movement, I didn’t necessarily have to think about making my movement blend with the other pieces as they were not there yet however another member of my class Robyn, incorporated her piece with mine very well. By visualising my movement of picking up a certain object and then moving that object to the other side of me she then chose to incorporate her movement by picking up what I had to move along.
For the last part of the lesson we got into groups of 5/6 and had to create a short piece of theatre based on a life without dreams. Since we had been so deeply connected with the idea of trying to create something very expressive with our imaginations I found it challenging to then instantly change the mood into a dull scenery. This exercise was interesting as initially when I personally think of “a world without dreams” I simply picture an empty dark room. So then trying to create movement and characters within this image of an empty dark room, I found quite challenging.
My group decided to have a space with random animals feeling down because they were out of their element. We thought that by taking certain animals for example a fish out of the sea, would make it impossible for them to live and so we tried to use and play around with this idea in order to create a scene.
We chose to not use certain ideas such as having animals from the same species as it would mean that even though they were out of their natural habitat, that they were still surrounded by other animals like them which would give the audience a sensation of a homely atmosphere. As we wanted to make sure that the message being given off wasn’t very warming, we decided to not include this into our piece.
Response to “An Awesome Book”
I believe that the book we are studying for little people’s day is every creative and helps children to express their imagination. I believe that the book is even more heart touching as it was written by a father for his son so it shares a real love between its audiences.
The book has been selected for little people’s day as it lets us as performers express these ideas in many ways. As the book explains so many different scenarios for ideas of dreams, it gives us as performers an opportunity to adapt our performance in so many ways through physical theatre as well as vocally.
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