Wednesday, 30 September 2015

What sensibilities to you need to develop to be successful at the Partnering exercise?

To be an effective couple, both partners must be focused, they must maintain this focus this will make whatever it is that the two students are doing much smoother and easier.  If both partners aren't distracted and completely focused it will be easier for them to trust each other. This is crucial for the two to create anything successfully as when attempting physically challenging things like lifts, it may be unhelpfull if you are stiff and uncomfortable. Trusting your partner will help you relax, be soft and in turn be in control.

Explain The Needs To Develop Your Routes To the Floor

You need to do this because the floor supports all of your movements and its crucial you understand how to to balance the weight across your feet to support the rest of your body.You need to develop routes to the floor because you can use the floor as support to transition into lifts or other moves. The more routes you have and the more developed the routes are the more fluid your movements will be, and you will get better marks. You can develop routes to the floor by exploring and being playful and imaginative with your movements. You should always keep in mind that not every thing you try out will work or be good but you should attempt to learn from why that wasn't as good as it could have been.

Monday, 21 September 2015

Annotate and describe the process of the Place, Press, Push exercise and describe what it is beneficial for.

In this exercise your partner would press, place or push down anywhere on your body. The partner could put as much pressure as needed. They could use whatever part the body they wanted, elbow, knee hand whatever. This is beneficial as it got rid of any tension in the muscles. You could understand where your joints met and what parts of your body is sensitive to touch. It could be uncomfortable and personally I didnt find the exercise usefull at all.  It felt unessary compared to other exercises, I wasnt focused so most likely missed whatever point was trying to be put across.

Sunday, 20 September 2015

Annotate and describe the process of the Push me/Pull you exercise.

In this exercise two people would perform the monkey grip. One person would then step back on their back leg while the other stepped forward holding their weight so they did not fall over. The person stepping forward would step back and pull the person crouched up again. This would be repeated with the other person.

The key is to use as little steps as possible and have a fluid motion. You also have to be in sync with your partner as a weight imbalance would cause you to fall over or lose balance.

What is milling and what is it beneficial for?

 After a while of consistent focus from everyone in the class almost made the exercise self-concious, they relationships formed with others was also organic spontaneously occurring. This is partly because the sun salutation exercise cleared my mind allowing me devote all my focus to the exercise and think of nothing else. This pure focus brought on the self concious element that  allowed me to act without thinking and it all unplanned and organic.

The physical movements were also organic, being created spontaneously. This is extremely useful as when acting in a naturalistic play its crucial it doesnt look rehearsed. Each performance is re lived not rehearsed. The clapping rythm gave evryone beat to move to. It was like audible perifiral vision as I knew at what tempo people where moving at, and also as a way to know when to stop moving as a group. Yet again the extreme consistent focus from everyone in the class created a living organism that responded and reacted to eachother.

Annotate and describe the process of performing a Sun Salutation

Step One: Stretch towards ceiling with both hands together.
Step Two: Reach down to tour feet and bend over.
Step Three: Go into Downward dog and exhale.
Step Four: Lunge your left leg forward and stretch towards the ceiling, similar to step one except you are in a lunge position
Step Five: Step back into Downward dog and the move into cobra. Then exhale.
Step Six: Back into downward dog and lunge your right leg forward.
Step Seven:  Stretch towards the ceiling, like Step Four.
Step Eight: Step back into downward dog and then bend down into cobra.
Step Nine: Go into child position and wait until the everyone else is done.

This yoga exercise was effective because it relaxed and brought me to an active neutral state that was ideal for performing. The stretches straightened my spine, not making it rigid, it instead was flexible and relaxed. The same happened to my legs, they were not locked at the knees but bouncy and fluid.

At the start of the exercise I felt quite stiff, but after a while I warmed up and got used to the positions, it felt more natural and fluid this prepared me for the physically demanding milling exercise.  It also helped me be clear minded, focusing purely on the task. This benefited me during the milling exercise greatly.

Explain the need to develop your sense of alignment (finding neutral)

Finding alignment as posture is incredibly important, soft knees and flexible spine prepare you for any performance. A squashed posture not only limits your breath capacity and control but significantly lowers the richness of your voice. When in alignment your head should feel like its being gently pulled up by a balloon.

Being in neutral is similar to being a blank canvas, you are able to transform clearly to present whatever you intent portray. Whereas if you arent in neutral perhaps in your natural stance you have bias and will find it harder to immerse yourself in the physicality of the character as you will already have your own physicality in the way.