Rehearsal Three

Today we consolidated and built on material from last week.

In choreography class, we did a short structured improvisation exercise. This inspired me to use a similar method to build movement onto the front end of our "Home"/keeping-a-story-inside phrase.

I asked the dancers to:

I then manipulated their movement a bit and asked them to interact with each other and the movement in specific ways. Here is the product of that exercise at 3 stages:

Next, everyone learned each other's story phrases:

We ended rehearsal with a little character development exercise that I hope to build upon in our next rehearsal.

{next steps: i hope to get a sound engineer soon and mix some vocal recordings of my collected stories into music}