Today we learned another neccesary skill in Commedia Dell' Arte - Mime.
Mime is a theatrical medium or performance art, involving the acting out of a story by a mime artist through body motions, without use of speech.
First we played a game using an "unreal" object, that can change itself to anything through miming. First each one of us had to create an image and than use it in a proper way, and we talked about things that we have in the bathroom. I was a toilet seat, someone else was a mirror and so on.
The second excersise was "grip-click-grab" which is a known technique to make an illusion for grabing a plate, a drink or any other object. The technique is to imagine that you have for exampe a glass in front of you, and produce the same gestures we do every day when we drink in this action. Your hand has to be stative because it should look real.
Mime is a theatrical medium or performance art, involving the acting out of a story by a mime artist through body motions, without use of speech.
First we played a game using an "unreal" object, that can change itself to anything through miming. First each one of us had to create an image and than use it in a proper way, and we talked about things that we have in the bathroom. I was a toilet seat, someone else was a mirror and so on.
The second excersise was "grip-click-grab" which is a known technique to make an illusion for grabing a plate, a drink or any other object. The technique is to imagine that you have for exampe a glass in front of you, and produce the same gestures we do every day when we drink in this action. Your hand has to be stative because it should look real.
After this excersise, we had a "pulling a rope" game. We divided into two groups and each group had to pull the rope to it's side. The winning group is the group that "pulls" the other group into its territory. The main point was to make the movements at the same time, togethere so it would look as real as possible.
In the end of the class Steve teached us how to "pretned" that you're in a box or moving across a wall, and than we tried all the new teachniques that we've learned togethere in a circle. I hope I would use those new mime skills in our Commedia Dell' Arte production and that it'll let me ides and perspectives for my Individual Performance in the end of year 2- mime looks like an amazing area to explore and I will be happy to use it.
In the end of the class Steve teached us how to "pretned" that you're in a box or moving across a wall, and than we tried all the new teachniques that we've learned togethere in a circle. I hope I would use those new mime skills in our Commedia Dell' Arte production and that it'll let me ides and perspectives for my Individual Performance in the end of year 2- mime looks like an amazing area to explore and I will be happy to use it.
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