Tag: exercises
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Session 5: Fornes’s Lessons in Tenderness vs the Atomic Bomb and Parks Digs a Hole in the Whole.
We started session 5 off with some serious vocal work. The lines I chose from our later readings proved to be extremely difficult to master, which made them perfect for our diction work and vocal explorations. We worked on the lines “You sockdologizing old man trap.” and “Emergency, oh emergency, please put the great man…
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Session 4: Slow Motion Race or Don’t Let the Puma Get You
So at the very end of session 4, Jim lead the classic favorite: slow motion race. You run as slow as you possibly can, while still giving the illusion of running. Since there were so many, we had to send them off in three groups.
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Session 3: The World in Handke’s Words and Pinter’s Uncovering of the Nakedness We Try to Hide With Words.
We began session 3 with some simple starting and stopping. It seems like such an obvious thing, we can’t live our lives with out starting and stopping hundreds of times a day, we do it so often it becomes automatic, something we are often unaware of. JoAnne Akalaitis says theater is all about stopping and…
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Session 4: Movement
I have been having camera troubles this year (not to mention lighting troubles with the theater space we’ve been working in, we really need more lights hung). But here’s some exercises from session 4: al-Hakim and Akalaitis. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_BUnUMTn_8] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF-Bkj3AvOc] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRTBz0I-n5c] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueVPkUw0I3c] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLq6sXgbgrQ] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn0PLA58mPQ]
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More Good Work
More photos from session 6: