REHEARSAL INFO

REHEARSAL DATES

November 15

November 22

November 29

CA 21 from 9:30am -3:30pm

DEVELOP AND REFINE PIECES

Clothespins and Band-Aids

-Ensemble

-Banda Mime

-Need to finish second half of piece

Dad

-Jo and Elaine

-Discover, explore and keep adding movement and choreography

-Find dynmism with dialogue

-Practice with Elaine as narrater and then

-Jo try narrating and moving your own piece

Do I Remember?

-Bean and Ensemble

-Finish other half of movement piece

-Ensemble create musicality with voice

-Put movement and narration together

I Hate My Mother

-Elaine and Tina

-Be off book

-Improv and find new things within piece

-Be off book

-Get feedback from peer

The Sense of Sensibilities

-Joanne and Bean

-Edit piece, get to mother’s story right away

-Choreograph movement

-Practice prop use with white sheets and light

Family Time

-Elaine, Dez and Yael

-Be off book

-Find nuances in characters

-Get feedback from peer

Circle

-Yael

-Be off book

-Use monologue technique to find dynamism in the piece

-Get feedback from peer

Journal Entry September 18

-Dez

-Work on monologue using technique

-Try getting offbook

-Get feedback from peer

Las Vegas

-Frea

-Be off book

-Use monologue technique to find dynamism in the piece

-Discover and explore movement within piece

-Get feedback from peer

NEW PIECES

Why? by Aiza

Mute by Elaine

Sisters by Dezi

For the new pieces above, please bring copies for Sunday rehearsal so the group gets a chance to hear these pieces. If there is time, put the pieces up on stage and see how you can develop each one.

WRITING FEEDBACK

Don’t forget you can connect with Jeannie of you need her to look into your written pieces

MONOLOGUE TECHNIQUE

Pitch

play with pitch, find sounds, dynamics, be random in the highs and lows and mediums

Pace

read with random speed changes, fast, slow, medium

Power

play with volume, loud and soft

Inflection

rise and flow of voice

Pause

walk and pause, be extreme, play with words, visually connect, don’t lose the energy, use breath

Emphasis

put emphasis on words, syllable, phrase and sentences

Overall: Lookk for rhythm, find variety of weight, length, cadence, gaiety, be precise, find sensibility and dyanmism

WARM UPS

Sun Salute

Body Isolation Stretches

Laban Cube

Laban Cube modified, find kinesphere of space, move into high, lows and medium of space using different parts of you body to lead

Acrobatics: toe tap, chest bump, side catch, baby catch, split catch and make sure you spot each other

Voice: AEIOU

Voice: Find resonance, head, face, throat, throat stomach

Charcter Development: weight, speed, direction