Tuesday lesson 4

after partaking in misorgi, and stretching. our first activity as a class was to do the 'Hokey Cokey' at first we were confused with the request but when partaking in it, I felt my childhood flash before my eyes and my emotions became very apparent; I was so happy and the whole class seemed to be having a good time, at no point did anyone not looke interested. from this we did an exercise called 'The Game' this 'game' gave us freedom because it had no rules and was based on working on the spot- improvisation. We all created a big circle and someone would go and play the song that brings them joy and anyone that felt comfortable to go in the middle and start an impro scene. during this task I didn't go into the middle because I didn't feel comfortable to and I felt that it was pressurising and I didn't feel the connection I felt last time in the lesson.

Following from this exercise, we got into pairs and was instructed to hold their hands then close our eyes and walk away from them, then try to find them by using touch, this exercise was intended on working on our touch senses and having to really feel a persons hands to differentiate them from others, most of us were able to find our partner and somehow this made us connect more spiritually because we found each other through touch. we started an unusual exercise where we stayed with the partner we were with but this time we started a game called 'Get of my back' this game consisted of being behind your partner and pushing their back at any time and whenever you push them, your partner would say ''get off my back''. this game for me was annoying because a push was spontaneous and because I didn't know when it was going to happen it made me agitated because it kept on surprising me and also someone was pushing my back, this caused me to put more aggression when we swapped over so that my partner realised how I felt when I was in that position. Stuart explained that some companies do this exercise for hours so we should empathise with the people this happens to. another exercise that we did was called ' mummy help me' where we would be in child's position but our hands would be reaching up, and we would repeatedly say mummy help me, personally I hated this exercise because it caused me pain and it did bring me to tears because it caused my emotions to overwhelm and it made me think of my mum and how much I love her and how much she means to me. when Stuart asked us to stop and I dropped my arms I felt restless and drained and I couldn't catch my breath, Stuart explained that a practioner used this because it is the theatre of cruelty. to end this session we ran through our whole piece with another theatre teacher watching us, after he gave us beneficial, helpful feedback; he said he wanted to join us and it was encapturing  because he felt like a child again and it looked very playful, this feedback made the cast happy because it was our first run through and already we knew that the message we were trying to portray came across clearly.

to end the day we went to the science lad where we will be performing our opening- surfing in the usa, beach boys and blocked the movements we will be doing to the song we then started watching our small group performances that will follow after the physical theatre piece. this rehersal was very productive and we had an idea of what our show was going to look like.