Today we carried on with our chorus performances, after doing a quick warmup that was essentially Chinese Whispers but with mime.
Well, I say we continued, but really we started properly working out what we were doing. Most of the people in our group also magically disappeared, but we got a few more back, pretty much evening out our total.
...Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that last journal. Sorry about that. We've been looking at chorus in performance (multiple actors portray one character - not necessarily one person, but one character, such as 'the women' or 'the builders'), and divided up into two groups to each perform, as a chorus, one half of a chorus section (specifically, the women's section from Medea).
So. We essentially started work today, despite starting last lesson. That time was mostly spent throwing ideas and hoping they'd stick, and by the time we started today we had a nice sticky ball of ideas that we were ready to start sculpting into a performance.
I love and hate that metaphor at the same time.
Our performance consisted of one action for each line, often essentially acting out the main point of each. The main technique that we used was the simple 'integrating audience' one - we surrounded the audience in a circle and performed in pairs around them. We did also use a little canon, but not much.
No other groups really thought to integrate the audience into the performance, but many other techniques were used, including multiple voice and transformation, things that we simply didn't think to include.
I don't really know how I can evaluate my particular performance on this one. I guess I'll just say that I have a better understanding of chorus, how it works and how best to create an interesting and engaging performance using these techniques.
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