Another incredible day! In Feldenkrais what started as a simple
stretch ended with us literally rolling around the floor in circles (or
at least some of the younger ones of us!) Amazing to learn more about what parts of our skeleton are connected and how small adjustments can change how we move. In Improv class, split up
into pairs, we wordlessly enacted everyday scenes that showed "where" we
were by what we were doing.
The
challenge seems to be to make our actions specific and deliberate
enough for the viewer to understand exactly what our activity is. Which
means WE have to really believe what we're doing. For our Ibsen
scene class we played some wild games including "verbal mirror". This was new to us - in
this exercise you face your partner and one starts making up a story
while the other tries to speak what the story-teller is saying
simultaneously. After a few seconds, the the call would come to
"switch" and the person copying becomes the story-teller. The stories
took fantastical and funny turns. Interesting, a lot of the work is
about listening - not jumping ahead or lagging behind with your scene
partner. Hopefully something that will benefit our work and our lives.
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