Children's Show - Exploring movement with physical theatre

Tree Physicality

Physical theatre to create the stories, in the Heron and the Hummingbird we have chosen to use physical theatre to create the surroundings so far we have experiemented with the physicality of the tree.

Method:One

This tree gave a great deal of height for the tree, however a block would be needed to evaluate the height. The need for the block would become an obstucle when there was a stage changed during the story.

Method: Two

This was easier to manouver but lost the height and the impression of the tree with the branches etc.

Method: Three

Out of all the methods this one proved the most creative, the disadvantage was the handstand as the speed of the change of movements may prove the handstand to be unsuccessful especially for the stands conditions.
We are experimenting further to continue the creativity of the movement but accomadating to the stage conditions.

The Warrior Physicality

We have established are opening scenes so far, which uses a lot of movement. As the opening scene many of us come out as Native American hunters, I have looked at the movement of native americans on the prowl, I have incorporated it into my native american hunter.

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From this I can judge the stance of the 'Hunter' as well as his movement and his approach to hunting, stalking your prey, light footsteps, using your weapon.

Jasmin Vardimon Workshop - 10 NOV 09

This workshop although a dance based workshop worked well with the movement experimentation side to the children's show. One of the exercises on the work shop was to imitate the movement of the snake with your hand but the involvment of the whole body. Although I do not play a snake character it did help alot with involvment of the whole body. Also gave a lot more confidence to just do the movement and see what happens.

ESTELLE MOVEMENT SESSION NOV 09

With the warrior movement we have worked with Estelle on a variety of movements in particular with the prowling and hunter presence worked well with the native theme. This session worked really well when incoporating the music into it as well. I learnt a lot from this session with the involvement of someone elses specialities and ideas. It provided a stepping stone to lead off from.