Installation View

rehearsal techniques in practice

Attempting Jesus Lift

For Dancers
Slippery ice
Is paradise
For dancers, if their feet are wise .

Essentially Ethel

 

Shout, shout, up with your song

Cry with the wind, for the dawn is breaking

march, march, swing you along

wide blows our banner, and hope is waking.

Song with its story, dreams with their glory

Lo! they call, and glad is their word

Forward! Hark how it swells,

Thunder of freedom, the voice of the Lord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ally Pally

 I did a recky of the location today, here are the photos

Marina

Rehearsal techniques/becoming Ethel Smide

 

Vocal exercise in order to maintain neutral tone of voice: balancing object on head

 

 

Avoiding superfluous movement distracting from characterisation: tie hands and legs to chair.

 

 

 

Characterisation for elderly roles: add weight to the body to change posture and pressure points

 

 

Vocal exercise projecting voice from pit of stomach: pushing against a wall whilst reciting lines.

 

 

Vocal and physical control as before: pushing back against wall.

posture: broom across shoulders (however under garment) to restrict movement

 

As before characterisation for elderly roles, accentuating/affecting/restricting movement of the knee and legs: Attaching knee pads or cardboard to knees.