Second Lesson

In the second lesson, we watched the other class's groups perform what they had rehearsed the week before. They all got into little lines, made up of about 4 or 5 people and performed a synchronised piece about movement and physicality. There was no dialogue and we were told that it was all based on the queue to get the rations. I really like the levels in the other class's pieces as it was easy to see what was going on. We then split back into our own groups and got into groups of about and did this ourselves. Me, Ben, Tyler and Claudia were all in a group and came up with the concept of having different classes and different ages in the line. Tyler and Ben were business men, who looked down on Claudia, quite an older women and then there was me, who was a child. The piece was very much timed and every movement had to be over exaggerated. We did a piece that had a lot of movement in it; including me jumping over Claudia’s back! After we all went outside and put our groups in one big line in the basketball pitch. We performed it once or twice adding in a tap to the hand, as if it was our ration book. We did it to some music, which I really think gave it a bit more. at the end of the lesson, we were told that we had 10 minutes to prepare a solo piece that we would be doing next week, based not only on world war one but on movement as well. I came up with the idea of being a women pretending to be a man so she could participate in war. Over the week I practised it, to Rihanna’s song 'Fading' I did this, so that it also had a modern element to it, as it was quite a modern idea.