Notes from Class

Hi there

Some thoughts from yesterday:

Denver :
- Ducks can also be mischievous… maybe explore those moments more
- I wish you had explored his infidelity more.
- Explore his solo/private voice vs. his public voice


Grey :
- take time to explore how he would grab something
- Where can your eyes go when you speak?
- Careful of foot tapping and leg pumping – not really gorilla-like
- Your hand/arm tempo is faster than the rest of him. Try and ground your gestures
- Perhaps explore a lower vocal tone

Lilli :
- play with how her hair could mimic a meercat
- keep exploring the height of the character and how a human spine an be like a meercat’s spine
- How does this animal sit on a chair? What happens to the lower body?
- Voice could be explored further

Trevor :
- try using a hand and arm as the trunk of the elephant
- you can slow down even more
- how useful can the non-trunk hand be, given that elephant’s don’t have digits?
- Where is the smile?
- Where in the body would this character keep the secret? How can he access it?

Miranda :
- how could her hair get more ‘gorilla-like’?
- keep playing with the mouth
- could she be dirty from the garage?
- Use her hands like the gorilla
- Red show laces seem odd for a character based on a gorilla

Alex :
- Keep the whole body alive as this mole rat – particularly the spine
- Ho alive can the feet be, especially while sitting?
- Eyes go where when he talks?
- Hands are stil marking you as Alex, rather than mole rat
- LOVELY vulnerability
- How does the hat help? How about some false teeth to mimic the rats?

Christian :
- you need a much stronger ‘lift’ through your body to achieve this animal’s pride
- how would this character laugh, especially given the bird’s sounds?
- Keep using undulations and fight against collapsing physically

Jessie :
- Keep all the tentacles alive. They could be arms and elbows, knees and ankles.
- Maybe she is always being moved by an ‘undulating ocean’?
- Could she have deadlocks? Or tentacle-like hair?
- The goggles confuse me a bit – any glasses that might make them a bit less obvious?
- Where in body is fear? Where in body is hunger to hunt?

Marquis :
- I don’t get the cape… is this an age thing?
- Activities really seem to help you – like those towels you were ripping up
- All the dialogue went up into your brow – keep him grounded
- What’s his breathing like?
- In the booth you were physically demonstrating what you were explaining in your story. And I think that’s a bit dangerous. Say it and support it in your body, rather than illustrate that

Noah :
- how does the hat work?
- Why aren’t the clothes black with white like the animal? It might add something…
- Eyes go where when he speaks?
- Careful of how much you use your right arm/hand to speak. Is it like the animal or like Noah?
- I wanted the character to BELIEVE more that someone was going to take a brain. Invest in your own imaginative stories and so will we…

Ava :
- there is a lovely pervasive sadness in her now
- find a lower voice – avoid making her sweet and ‘cute’
- her walk still needs some attention
- Keep exploring the specificity of her fingers and hand shape

Amy :
- Where in the body does the impulse to move come from?
- How can her feet stay as flippers? I really like the foot tapping you used in the booth
- Keep her horizon high, and keep her spine LONG and supported
- Keep exploring her voice
- Keep exploring how her hands can be like flippers

Amanda :
- I think she might benefit from a long-sleeved sweatshirt. That way her arms can hold more weight
- Keep exploring how much time/effort it takes to move this amount of weight
- Voice is GREAT
- How do eyes ‘search’ the space while speaking?
- What is her breath like?
- Careful of overworking your fingers – especially given her animals have flippers
- Did she LIKE swimming naked, maybe? Could THAT have been the confession?

Josh :
- you must keep lifting up out of your hips and work with greater support through your spine.
- You could emphasize the undulations more, especially in his spine
- How can the legs move like the animal?
- Your hands and wrists did most of the work in your booth – which doesn’t really reflect the animal. How can the BODY tell the story

Adam :
- explore the undulation in the spine, and the ‘loping’ from side to side a large cat can have
- keep his whiskers alive
- impulse to do something comes from WHERE in his body (Im thinking about the moment in the booth when you fetched the coin from your pocket)
- voice could be explored more
- where could “displeasure” live in his body?

Annie :
- Could her voice go lower and find broader resonance?
- Where in the body do these moves originate? From spine? The navel? The sacrum?
- Keep the movement that sustained and focused.