Week Fifteen (Part 3)

The World of Nature in Physical Theatre

8th January 2014

Today's main lesson we moved aside our main Shakespeare assignment, and we turned to a side project in Physical Theatre.  The key factor in our Physical Theatre lesson was to focus on the world of nature and expore the details in animal movement.  The purpose of this is to explore an actors methods of being able to transform their movement and see if they're capable of changing character by walking/moving as someone or something else, in this case the movement of an animal.  Our task this lesson was to create our own animals and explore what kind of movement would this animal do, what kind of habit it would live in, and why?  I felt this was an interesting task as it allowed us to explore our own movement and create a unique form of movement.

     Another part of this lesson was our teacher giving us a posibility of what type of animal we were, based on our own movement.  This was also interesting as it made us more aware of our own movement, as well as setting us homework to do some reasearch into how we could individually present the characteristics of our animal.  This would all become very useful in upcoming lessons as we would be able to expand our understanding of animal movement and become our own unique creature.