Sunday, 10 January 2016

Double Performing Arts Lesson (6th January 2016)

In today's lesson we went back to 'The Snow Queen' and continued working on James's piece. 
We started with Lewis, Lorna, Charlie and Olly's dance Justin Bieber, We then continued to elaborate on the scene and include more movement. 

We continued with Lorna and Lewis freezing after their dance but Charlie and James both get up and lift the curtain for Rhiannon to roll under. As she is the 'snow queen' we had to find a way to show it. We decided that Lorna and Lewis would make jagged movements with their hands to show the ice as mentioned in James's story. 
The next section of the story was about Kay and Gerda reading a book about 'beasts'. Therefore Charlie, Olly, Lorna and I would create the shape of a mammoth behind the curtain to show the 'beast'. The next part is the description of the glass in Kay's eye. 
As Lewis was Kay to show this he dramatically fell to floor in pain holding his eye. As James reads through describing that the shard of glass is no longer in his eye (at this part Lewis shows a sigh of relief) however he still has some glass in his eye that he does not yet know about so Lewis began to hold his heart as he begins to feel it.
Lorna enters to Lewis in pain and asks whats wrong and he insists he is fine. During this scene Olly, Rhiannon, Charlie and I arise behind the sheet and create silhouettes of flowers because the next line in the story is Kay saying how bad the flowers. To create his aggression as the glass goes deeper into his heart. Lewis Kicks out and we all lay on the floor giving the illusion he kicks the flowers over. 
The flowers all arise again but create the mammoth once again as 'the beast' is mentioned once again in the story. 
At this point we all split off showing the mammoth deconstructing and creating something else. As this happens I walk forward and under the curtain. Lewis enters the stage (still with everyone else in the background in their mammoth shapes). Lewis and I create a possession scene as Lewis controls me as if i'm on string.
The next scene shows me after being possessed by Lewis on a sledge (as it mentions in the story). We created this by Olly, Rhiannon and Charlie on all 4s with me sitting on their back. They then begin to move up and down as if I was doing over bums down a hill. 

This was all he had for this lesson however we already began discussing ideas for the next lesson where we decided to continue with James's story. 

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