IB Theatre - First group task

Thursday 17th September -

Today we produced our first piece of IB physical theatre, I'm begining to discover how different IB Theatre is to GCSE Drama; we are given so much more choice about what we produce, and how we go about it. So far its proving to be a lot to get my head around.

And all that Jazz - As usual we started with and intersting warm up activity, today this involved dancing around carelessly to jazz music in any way we liked and not to worry about anything or anyone else, just to let it out. After we became focused we then began to copy other dance moves that people were doing, as and when we fancied. It was an amusing activity but encouraged us to put our all into what we were doing, and not worry about what people thought.

Theres only three rules - You can only - 1. Lift your arms 2. Move your head to either side and 3. Cross your legs. And that was it... we had to create any piece of theatre incorporating just those three rules, and nothing else. My group consisted of Me, Jack and Alice (YES, I'M FINALLY LEARNING NAMES) and we came up with the idea of create some kind of restraunt themed idea in the 20 minutes that we were given.
After a few minutes brainstorming our ideas, we were up on our feet and rehearsing. we were free to interpret the rules however we wanted as long as we obided by them... we chose to use them in a comic way, basically using them to over react any movements we made.
We then watched each others performances and made comments on them, it was really good seeing that each group had created there very own individual pieces, with there own highlights.