|
This week started out playing the One Hen, Two Ducks game again. While it wasn't as difficult as last week, I still found it difficult to keep up. I was comforted to see other people concentrating on nailing the timing of the numbers, "Eight!", "Nine!"
This weeks theme was space and movement. We started out with a circle game where we imagined a bowling ball going from person to person. We had to obey the laws of physics in that we couldn't just reverse the direction of the ball. Easiest was to just continue the ball rolling with a whooosh! We could change the direction by looping the ball back two people, missing the person who passed us the ball. There were other ways of changing the path, including "Tron" where you could send the ball to a random person. The laws of physics bend for Tron it seems!
We did a number of exercises where we imagined objects ranging from a bowling ball to a feather. I wonder what we would use if bowling balls hadn't been invented? Maybe watermellons? Pat pointed out that when you grab an object, your hand usually snaps to the object. I had never noticed this before. Did I snap to objects before? Am I doing it now because I was told I did it? Hmmm....
Next we played a game where we imagined poles and then moved from our pole to someone elses. This was interesting as we ended up losing poles in the migration. We got better although we now find we could invent poles that didn't exist before!
The next game was a circle game. We went around using the previous persons matter creation and then reshaped the matter into our own thing, passing it on to the next person. I had all sorts of ideas for what I would do when I was passed the matter. I wanted to do juggling balls, spinning plates, etc. I eventually decided to build on what was passed to me. This could have worked out great. Unfortunately, Nathan passed me toilet paper under the stall! His mime was quite off-putting! It threw me. I decided to make a ladder to escape the stall. This fit in with the situation, but did little to develop my spacial skills. I didn't spend the time to really develop my object. I also did a lousy job at creating a ladder!
Lastly, we played a game where we had four frames to create a story. The audience would close their eyes, we would get into place, ask them to open their eyes for 6 seconds. Then they would close their eyes, we would move on to the next frame and do the same thing. This was my favorite part of the improv class so far. Our story was "having a baby." We went from start to finish in just four frame. I don't believe I have laughed so hard in ages, and I was in the scene!
I learned this week that I need to spend time developing my spacial interaction, paying close attention to how I interact with objects. I also stretched myself this week by doing the four frame scene. I didn't like the topic, but went with it completely. We created something great with little preparation.
|
