11/2/11
Te aim of this workshop similarly to mine and lisa's was to generate material and get the creative juices flowing for want of a better term. we did a quick warm up of stretches and we danced to shang a lang. which i think will become a comman place war up although it is a silly song having a run about to it at the start at every rehearsal will focus us as a group and get our energy levels up.
gary and jess then gave us a list of 25 questions witch we had around 25 minutes to answer.
and from the answers we worked in pairs to make something... text or performance what ever we just had t generate something. they played each pair a song and we had to use the song in some way in out piece.
I worked with Glenn and we decided to merge each others answers and write two monologues.
this is what i wrote.
I'm you and Jesus walks and he is gay, or is that me i can't remember. one of your pupils is bigger than the other, and i died in a plane crash and discovered other planets. i have eaten forbidden fruit but i have never been in love because I'm trying to give up smoking. they say we have nothing in common and i believe in Jesus but you believe in evolution so he can't see you, I'm sorry, you want to make I've to a sloth, no you love sloths, i don't. I have a full set of bushy pubes because I'm sexually aware and free, but, your disinterested in sex with me so I'll shave my glorious plumage and them maybe you fuck me.
you should run when you flush the toilet do you? you should because the world could end today, although my dad believes it will end in 2012 so perhaps i will just jog next time. I can play the piano and every night i play the theme from breakfast at Tiffany's but i never joined a choir so i can't sing. you sing though don't you? perhaps we could put our differences aside and serenade the aliens.
Lisa and rufaro did an interesting debate almost of one up manship. and i liked the competitiveness of there improv.
grennie and Anna did a sort of story telling performance with gestures it was very funny and endearing.
then they followed this exercise by asking us to make a short performance In the style of a silent movie.
this sparked off a huge chain reaction for us. we will all captivated by the idea of silent film and associated with that mime.
we all started messing around with the interesting way that they move in silent film and discussed the use of piano music and agreed that this was an avenue we would like to go down.
also so because gary plays piano we realised that we could have live piano music.
its the best rehearsal so far definitely. I'm excite to see what come of the silent film and mime ideas
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