Viewpointing with Animals

Mrs Grey and her daughter Sophia brought their rabbit - Lightning, a bitser bunny. We discussed how rabbits like to dig; their twitchy ose, nibbling eating; thumping when scared or warning/shaky back legs when too far off ground/ nose quiver.
Mrs Beer's dog Gizzy is 11 years old; very licky/ wagging tail.

Turtle- use of space; under deck; neck and head stretched up; leg stuck up by head' back legs stretching out.

Lollipops - Strangers in Space

Great work this week time -  with an hour outside working in open space. Here's some useful vocabulary.
On Friday you generated lots of ideas about our planned performance. Good idea to work with SPCA. We have a number of pets [rabbits/turtle/small dog] lined up for our "Viewpointing with Animals" session on Friday 22/2. In the meantime don't forget your HOMEWORK - looking at animal movement. Check out Kaiden's blog.

Welcome to the 10Drama of STARS 2019

For 2019 we have decided to share a video record, weekly, of out process.It has been great to have our first 2 lessons [Thursday/Friday - period1] This talented group has a love of animals, writing and performing and is keen to contribute to the community by creating performance work. We started the ritual of surrendering our cellphones/distractions and claiming our stage space with some physical theatre activities starting with Viewpoints [Anne Bogart]. We are working on skills so also did some improvisation with popup storybook. It was interesting to learn new things about each other in our "paperbag" talks.

Viewing Musicals

This week - on Grease [movie] compared to Grease live. See the Performing Arts site for an article about that and some video clips. You have a compare/contrast template to uses. For next week: decide on a group, a musical and fill in the research task as a group.

Last week we watched Little Shop of Horrors and wrote about it on our blogs [2 sets of questions and 1 slamdunk paragraph]

This week we are looking at Grease Live and comparing it to the classic film. Check out the Performing Arts page for some notes and video clips.
Is this version actually live? Some sets look very  realistic, like a film set.
I cannot see whre the audience is? At 1 point the audeince seemed to be interacting with performers when they watched the cheer leaders, or was that cast?
I see some lighting effects but the green tinge of the data show make it hard to tell.
There are lost of camera moves, link crane shots which are not from the audiences perspective.

Look at me I'm Sandra Dee

Comedy performance ROLE

Today we discussed how to be funny; in particular the character you must develop - attitudes/ costume. This piece from Ricky Gervais will expand on that,

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Social dance in the 1950's

Teen Dances of the 1950s
Why did dance change in the 1950's? swing diverging into different styles -the rebelliousness of the time — teens didn't want to dance like their parents who were actively disapproving of their lifestyle, so they invented a wide range of step and style replacements.

Where can I learn to Rock'n'Roll? Christchurch Club 

Where did teenagers go to dance?

1950's teens

This is like the movie Hairspray earlier in the year.

Mrs Clark's Solo