Thursday 22nd January- Dissocia

Today we started off the lesson with quad jumps as a warm up. These involved seperating in to three lines and jumping in rounds of 8. The first group would do 8 jumps and turn 90 degrees over their right shoulder whereas group two did 6 jumps, turning on the 6th. The third group repeated this pattern however, jumping on the 4th beat. We stayed in these three groups and mixed up which group jumped in which count and how many counts we left in between. This exercise really got me thinking about energy in dramatic form and how I can interpet this energy in to acting Lisa.

Our next challenge was to come up with three movements which represented our character's mood and emotions in act 1. I worked with the other Lisa, Izzy to do so.
We created three main movements that we felt summaries the mood of Lisa when she enters Dissaoic and through out the first act.
Move 1- Slowing walking forward and bringing our hands up to on heads to symbolise confusion.


Move 1

 

Move 2- here, we came out of move two, transisiton in to the next move by lifted our other hand to our head and change our facial expression to a pained and agonising expression. We then spinned out and around to go in to the next move.



Move 2

 Move 3- for our final movement for this task, we placed our left hand on our chest and held the right arm up in a surrender sort of movement. This movement represents when Lisa surrenders and and makes promise whilst in Dissocia to abide by their rules. 

Move 3





Following this small sequence we had in the process of making, Rachel started asking us to add movements to our three orginal movements, so that we started to create some choreography the represnted our character, Lisa. We were asked create a movement which was overly exaggerated than it usually would be and two movements, changing the pace, one at level 1 and one at level 7 state tension. The begining sequence of Izzy and I was our final piece which we used to perform to the class. All of the other characters has done the same, basing their mood again around their characters and how they would have been feeling and looking in Dissocia. Here is the final performance of our sequnce; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyM-Th6y93c


Our final task of the day was to choose a page from the text in act 1, when our characters interact with Lisa and rehearse with one of Lisa's to then show in front of the class again. We were also asked to incorporate movements in to the text, some that we had earlier used in our sequences.
Whilst everyone chose a scene to do, Izzy and I decided which groups we were both going to work with and split ourselves up amoungst the class. 
We went round, alternating between groups to work on our characterisation and the way we used the space and our bodies. Here is the end result.


jhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WejhhCICOes