Thursday, 23 April 2015

UNIT 6 tutorials and targets

Hi All, those of you who did not choose to tutorial today will be first on the list next Tuesday! 
Please take a look at what each other is doing, and particularly the targets set - you may be able to help, or work in pairs or small groups where targets are similar!



James A
Decided upon Physical song actions to the song using David Armand’s Torn performance as influence. Will attempt to extend physical skills set. Using a song which comes out of comfort zone. A thousand Miles – Vanessa Carlton. Challenges: Fast tempo, demanding precision of physicality at speed.
Task:  look at silent movie stars such as Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy.
Research into Laban’s Efforts.  LP look for handout to e mail.

Laura C
Scrapped monologue idea, has moved towards a different mode of comedy. Inspired by a random clip on facebook of the flight attendant. L’s mother is a flight attendant, so L can get the safety demo and anecdotal content down. Interesting in terms of physical seated/standing relationship between passengers and attendant, and audience and performer. “Brecht used comedy to distance his audiences from the depicted events”.
Tasks: Research the context of the Brecht Quote, Decide in developing your material, what your angle will be? ( feminist, political, storytelling, cultural or economic drivers – servant/master, status type stuff? that you expose…)

Zoe C
Looking at comedic monologue?
Task: Talk with Polly re storytelling and techniques for developing own comedic monologue.
Also: Look at Christopher Durang, Laughing Wild, look at Victoria Wood, Alan Ayckbourne and find more contemporary examples!

Sam P

Has read Krapps last tape and has watched a bit of it. Stand Up is enjoyable, but doesn’t feel; hideously challenged though.
Has got the existing mono’s and now the Richard the second also. Need to consider how you might place these into a performance context. Is there a way to pull the stand up and mono’s together?
TASK: Decide between a compere persona who commentates on sections of the monologue? Or do you look for the commonalities of text/concept/character in the mono’s and develop a stand up which links these and comments on them.
( Audience reception theory, communication theory).
  

Yvette

Confused! Absent  through illness, so needed a bit more context for decision making over content.
Considering a physical piece, cites DV8 as example of marrying text and moves. Also intrigued by diff in own physicality twixt dance and phys. theatre . Needs to be corralled or will keep being interested in new things!
Explore Laban’s effort and the dodecahedron. Think about Etchell’s accidents of rehearsal. 

Authorised absent: Jonathan
Absent: Daniel, Paige
Present but tutorialling next week: Harry Christopher, Greg, Goncalo

No comments:

Post a Comment