Monday, December 21, 2009
1st day at Boon Lay
Short Recap & Important Things to Take Note:
Physical Warm-Up
- Leaders need to give more specific and detailed instructions
- Exercises on the whole need to be done tighter, with focus & seriousness
- Lift your elbows by the joints
- Raise your entire arm high up into the sky & stretch as much as possible
- Drop your arm joint by joint followed by the head
- Take a deep breath & let go of your entire upper body (remember to bend your knees!)
- Lift back your body joint by joint to its original position
- Place your right hand on your chest & left hand on your abdomen
- Take a deep breath and fill in your diaphragm first before the chest in 3 counts each
- Release your breath from your chest first before the diaphragm in 3 counts each
- 'Resonating scales' exercise was fairly well conducted
- New exercise: place the tip of your tongue against your lower set of teeth & try to pronounce your name as clearly and audibly as possible
- Stage awareness (blocking, space, bigger movements etc.) & audience awareness
- Practise stage discipline & control -- don't break out of character
- Challenge ourselves by resolving the issue in a different manner instead of retreating to the usual comedy/humour (our comfort zone)
- The use of sound (eg mopping of floor, shuffling of feet etc.) to create tension/awkwardness against a backdrop of stillness/inaction
Reminders:
- 23rd's CCA session has been extended to 5pm
- Research on your assigned topic for 'Find Me'
- Write your daily reflections
