Bowing, Sitting and Standing is Hard!

Today we learned how to bow, sit in chairs and stand up again as 1740s folk. We also did exercises in tableaux and distilling gestures. Here's a video of the students' beautiful distilled-gesture pieces. The gestures were from a series of words I got from an advanced movement class way back when I was in Acting school:

1 movement per:
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Confusion
Grief
Compassion
Pretense
Wisdom

What would your gestures be?   ~Jenn

Stage Movement Journal 1/29

We learned our locomotor movements, body dynamics, and then played with stage picture. Here is the beginning of one of our "machines" and then, the end. Go here for a clip of one of the phrase guessing-game rounds we played. ~ Prof. Jenn