October 25

Whats the week again? Oh man, it was so hard to get out of bed today. I think everyone was in the same mind set seeing as so many people didn't come to class. However, I did show up because at the end of the day I know I'm gonna have some fun and when I'm up, I'm up. Its that mid semester rut that everyone wants to get over- mid-terms, papers and assignments. I think people forget that although drama is a class, it can be an escape to be active and silly. Its a break from the usual papers and midterms. Instead you get to explore your mind and work on creativity.
Today was a pretty easy going class. I think Jeremy could sense the vibes being put out around the class and catored to that. We spent some time in the classroom learning about different stage tools and some tips on how to write our upcoming critique. From there we moved to the drama room where we discussed our final project and went over a few possible poems. Our group is doing a lovely scene of the slaughter of cows.. should be fun! I think next week will be interesting, hopefully get to do some stage fighting. I'm crossing fingers that everyone brings high energy (myself included).
Suzy out

Week 6

The day began with the usual warm up. Some stretching, moving like idiots and playing games. I think everyone was a little tired today, so the atmosphere was a little blaaah. From there we wrote some tests and then moved into some fun, entertaining good ol' dancing. The lesson was choreographed movement through dance. I thought this was pretty funny, reminded me of the flash dances people do around the world. It would be so hard to choreograph such big groups of people!! From there we broke out into smaller groups and created our own dances. I thought some were pretty darn creative. The teacher added music and all the sudden our random movements, looked like creative dance pieces. I had a lot of fun creating it as well as watching the other groups do their pieces. Hopefully we get to do stage fighting next week!!!

Class 5 - Oct 11

Well the day began with the usual stretching, moving around like idiots and playing games. We played bang and this time I was prepared with my strategy I mentioned earlier. Followed by the BIG BOOTY game. haha I really liked this game, mostly when we lost and got to jump around yelling "ameeen, ammmmeeeen, amen, amen, ameeeen". I believe this game was for a vocal warm up.

Back to the room for housekeeping, doing a slide show on the art of the actor. The main actor tools are the voice, body, and mind. Which really makes sense but has many complexities.

We did a few new activities today. The first was following a classmate and trying to imitate their walk. I don't think I personally did the best job reenacting but it was fun to watch everyone else and notice the little differences that every person makes.

Activity number 2 involved a process known as "Deep thoughts". Which was essentially one student walking across a dark room onto a spot light and telling a blunt joke very slowly.

Ie: "Look at this daffodil as I go and rob you."

and "Sometimes its sad being locked in a dungeon, but when I look out the window and see it raining and the wind blowing, I think "wow, its nice to be inside".

I laughed my face off, there was some really good ones. And some that didn't really make sense. Overall pretty good, instead of leaving early we wanted to stay and finish the remaining few off.

Was a fun day :)

Class 4

Well, I was gone far far away to a wedding. Therefore, I did not get to experience this class. But ill try and get the d/l tomorrow to find out what I missed!

Turns out I missed some fun enactments by using minimal words to create a story.