Drama 4 movement exercises

Drama 4

By popular request, here is the list of movement exercises we did with our monologues today. I have put enough of a tidbit to jog your memory, if you need more clarification just ask.

1. Find physical contrast between pieces
2. Add vocal contrast
3. Proud, Shame, Hide- Find the body placement of character's proudest element, shame and hide. Place those things in the body accordingly to build a character body.
4. Active in a chair-Make the piece as physically dynamic as possible while sitting in a chair.
5. Reset the character's default gesture- Find a gesture never done before. Put it all through the body. Do the gesture with your feet, your hair, your center-etc. Perform the monologue doing the variances of the gesture all through the piece.
6. Gratowski 10-1- Choose key phrases in the work and physically act the piece using the emotion to body connection. This will be huge overblown movement. Turn it down, turn it down, turn it down, find it in realism.

Drama 2

Is hard at work staging their story theater pieces.
They got a wide awakening yesterday with diction notes on their poems. Students will perform their poems with improvements on Friday.

Congrats and Onward and Upward

First let me give some shouts out to the first of our D4 numbers to get into college. I feel sure that the college acceptance game has only just begun.

Yea!

AJ-admitted to OU and SMU
Alyssa-admitted to SMU
Jennifer- admitted to SMU and Indiana
John- admitted to SMU

We are so proud of you.

Next I want to give a shout out to the cast of The Three Sisters. Auditions were extremely competitive and I am so proud of you as well.

Now, onto the plans

Drama 4

We are winding down our monologue unit with the 5th period performances and the classical rounds. We are going to be moving into mask making. Please remember to bring your 7.00 for your mask supplies. Due next Wednesday.

Friday: Continue comments on Round 1 classical

Monday: Notes on 5th period performance

Tues-Thurs: Coaching on Classical monos

Friday: Mask Intro

Drama 2

We have several trains running in Drama 2. We are working on our poetry selections for diction and voice. We have also started our Children's theater unit.

Friday: Poetry line check part 2/ Children's theater script presentation

Monday: Poetry performance. Round 1

Tuesday: Children's theater line check and rehearsal

Wednesday: Children's theater rehearsal

Thursday: Children's Theater character day

Friday: Children's theater round one.

OMG! When did it get to be November?

With Three Sisters and Aida cast, we are able to get right back on track and finish the semester with drive and focus.

Here is the agenda for this week;

Drama 4:
Mon: Spooktacular
Weds. Classical Mono work
Thurs: Classical Mono work
Fri: Classical Monos round one

Drama 2:
Mon: Scene slam rehearsal
Weds: Scene slam round one
Thurs: Scene slam rehearsal/ Children's theater kick off
Fri: Scene slam final/ Children's theater groups.

Our D2 editors are hard at work. I hope that by Friday we will be able to debut The Brook in 5th period.