AAAAAAH! long time no see! soo many good things had happened so far! As i said in my last blog, we were practicing on which ways to use our column, energy source and breathing. So, one class, Roberto decided NOT to do theory (how wierd right?) and we did this cool exercise to train our imagination, breathing and energy. We had to lie on the floor, and relax....feel the parts of our body touching /not touching the stage. Feel the air comming in and out our body, lungs (breathing) slowly. Then we imagined a ball inside us, by our stomach (our source of energy), my ball was black whith star dust all around it. It looked like sort of galaxy. Anyway, we had to think about it and then we turned into the ball...the ball was the one who set our soul alives. It woke up our body parts and slowly we had to stood up. (This exercise was the most amazing thing we've ever done in drama, it was sooooo cool and wow ..that we decided to use it later on in our play rehearsals). After that we had to walk with out eyes closed, HOW EVER the tricky part was, that the floor was not the floor , it was the side of a building. My building was a windowish, bluish, manhataan builgin. By this we realized that we DO need our center of energy even to walk, because we moved first our "bellys"than our upper part of our body. We also did a little bit of spider man gaming :P and with that we felt a little bit...not much.. secure.
Another important thing that happened is that we were given our ROLES! in the play!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! I'm Astolfo, btw....he is said to be "the bad one" of the play, he is a moskovian DUQUE :P also I'm encharged of the scenary of the play (with my CAMARADA (L) Sebastian, he is doing props)Also, Valentina, felipe, Rodrigo and Me, we were suposed to lead 20 minutes of a Drama rehearsal, but it went SOOOOOO BAD! we had this main idea that everyone understood, however, we lost communication between us, and Felipe tried to save the situation sort of improvising.....howoever we lost the intention completely. We had groups of people doing nothing, some where laughin...others doing work! However, after the ROBERTO's FAMOUS SHOUT :P....we pulled it together and we made a decent recovery.
Drama Class: we are working on our collumns and we are in the process of this very extreme SUPREME!!! coreography...we are doing fine, we now listen to each other and try to understand the points of view and ideas
of the members of our class because everyone has excellent ideas. We started by doing pairs and making 4 movements that had to do with column...then we combined them into a long sequence...we still are in the process of perfection!! but sooon you'll know what happened. Also, the PLIP PLOP game!I0'm not a FAN of this game..we just have to do actions and movements with our column and/or a sound. It's hard because you run out of posutres /sounds!!!! it sucks...however....its good to practice with that we expand our BOOK OF MOVEMENTS POSSIBILITES. We also learned how the mental diagrams are impornatat to understaand or learn a topic.!
Saturday Rehearsal: It went great! even though we didn't do it on purpose, our ensayo had a structure. Valentina opened with the energy ball exercise, rodrigo with the PLiP PLOP game (the column) and Claudia made the Voice exercise (using our diaphragm). Then came..ME!!!! I made this cool exercise with music and changes in the actors environment. Sandrita then finished with some situations to be acted in groups. Later on, Roberto gave personal feed back. he said my idea was great and he liked it. I did ok....the only thing i missed was the trnastion between one song and the other one.The actors sort of lose the concentration waiting for a new song. He recommended toas ask for a still picture to keep the actors with energy. If I fix that mistake, I could re-do my exercise. :) Roberto Congratulated us for a wonderful, most beautiful and fantastic (not really..he said GOOD)...rehearsal.
Plays!!: My PLAY life was feeded last week with 2 plays. The first one was "la santa comedia" in the Satchmo theatre...and teh other one was "el ultimo ensayo" by yuyachkani. La santa comedia ..was a play which didn't follow a story line..its main intention was to entertain the audience by jokes, interacting with them (they picked my dad to go on stage
T.T) and funny actiones. On the other hand, El ultimo ensayo was more of a "PLAY" even though it was not a conventional play....I saw it more of a formal one. Watching both plays (speacially in yuyachkani) I realized that even though you carachter is not important in that scene but you are on stage YOU HAVE TO STAY AS YOUR CHARACTER!!! and the voice is also very important! i could hear 20 minutes before the play started , the voices of the actores /actrices warming up! it was cool! because i though that only choirs did that.
To conclude, I will like to know how this will help to develop my character in the play ..."ASTOLFO".. how is his column going to be (straight? curved? humped? is he going to walk normal ...or was he damaged in was in one leg?)...how is he going to speak? (low? high? slow? fast? with respect?) how does he interact and responds to the changes in the play? (sarcastically? he cares? he doesn't care?!)..I hope with time I will found all about it!.
Another important thing that happened is that we were given our ROLES! in the play!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! I'm Astolfo, btw....he is said to be "the bad one" of the play, he is a moskovian DUQUE :P also I'm encharged of the scenary of the play (with my CAMARADA (L) Sebastian, he is doing props)Also, Valentina, felipe, Rodrigo and Me, we were suposed to lead 20 minutes of a Drama rehearsal, but it went SOOOOOO BAD! we had this main idea that everyone understood, however, we lost communication between us, and Felipe tried to save the situation sort of improvising.....howoever we lost the intention completely. We had groups of people doing nothing, some where laughin...others doing work! However, after the ROBERTO's FAMOUS SHOUT :P....we pulled it together and we made a decent recovery.
Drama Class: we are working on our collumns and we are in the process of this very extreme SUPREME!!! coreography...we are doing fine, we now listen to each other and try to understand the points of view and ideas
of the members of our class because everyone has excellent ideas. We started by doing pairs and making 4 movements that had to do with column...then we combined them into a long sequence...we still are in the process of perfection!! but sooon you'll know what happened. Also, the PLIP PLOP game!I0'm not a FAN of this game..we just have to do actions and movements with our column and/or a sound. It's hard because you run out of posutres /sounds!!!! it sucks...however....its good to practice with that we expand our BOOK OF MOVEMENTS POSSIBILITES. We also learned how the mental diagrams are impornatat to understaand or learn a topic.!Saturday Rehearsal: It went great! even though we didn't do it on purpose, our ensayo had a structure. Valentina opened with the energy ball exercise, rodrigo with the PLiP PLOP game (the column) and Claudia made the Voice exercise (using our diaphragm). Then came..ME!!!! I made this cool exercise with music and changes in the actors environment. Sandrita then finished with some situations to be acted in groups. Later on, Roberto gave personal feed back. he said my idea was great and he liked it. I did ok....the only thing i missed was the trnastion between one song and the other one.The actors sort of lose the concentration waiting for a new song. He recommended toas ask for a still picture to keep the actors with energy. If I fix that mistake, I could re-do my exercise. :) Roberto Congratulated us for a wonderful, most beautiful and fantastic (not really..he said GOOD)...rehearsal.
Plays!!: My PLAY life was feeded last week with 2 plays. The first one was "la santa comedia" in the Satchmo theatre...and teh other one was "el ultimo ensayo" by yuyachkani. La santa comedia ..was a play which didn't follow a story line..its main intention was to entertain the audience by jokes, interacting with them (they picked my dad to go on stage
T.T) and funny actiones. On the other hand, El ultimo ensayo was more of a "PLAY" even though it was not a conventional play....I saw it more of a formal one. Watching both plays (speacially in yuyachkani) I realized that even though you carachter is not important in that scene but you are on stage YOU HAVE TO STAY AS YOUR CHARACTER!!! and the voice is also very important! i could hear 20 minutes before the play started , the voices of the actores /actrices warming up! it was cool! because i though that only choirs did that.To conclude, I will like to know how this will help to develop my character in the play ..."ASTOLFO".. how is his column going to be (straight? curved? humped? is he going to walk normal ...or was he damaged in was in one leg?)...how is he going to speak? (low? high? slow? fast? with respect?) how does he interact and responds to the changes in the play? (sarcastically? he cares? he doesn't care?!)..I hope with time I will found all about it!.
as you may see, unfortunately, when you lose the habit of blogging, some important parts of your learning go without proper reflection... for example, i'd like to see more on the plip plop game in terms of movement/sound/organic, and on the use of graphic organizers/mental maps
ReplyDeletedon't forget about two other feedback points for your rehearsal: (1) you have to be very careful about how you take your actors to produce work, especially when you are working with energies - making them dance is not easy, and (2) you have to make sure that every actor complies with the task, because if they don't, then you have to look for ways to make them do it
and don't forget to make a proper review on "el ultimo ensayo", analyzing how the plot, structure, characters, setting, scenery, props, costume, music, video, etc. blended together to produce certain effects on the audience
roberto
PS. so far your blog is quite good, though i'm waiting for the extra bit on reflection on theatre that will arise from the mixture of activities AND articles we are reading AND theory classes...