The Climbers

This was a rehearsal where I tried hard not to call out any instructions or reminders! Not easy but people have to think for themselves! On the whole it was pretty smooth - the few odd rough bits add a little character! We may manage to smooth them out on Monday!

Quick costume changes were causing some concerns - necks in arm holes and garments inside out -that kind of thing! A new Deakin uni student - Emma - joned the team for this rehearsal and will be helping stage manage and handle quick costume changes, props etc. YAY for Emma!

After the run through we had the famous tea break, I read the recent blog entries and asked for some final comments to go on the blog.

Here is what some people wanted me to write in the blog:

Debbie: It’s good!

Vicki: I’m feeling good about it. I haven’t performed since I was at school.

Andrew: Been there done that! I’m as cool as a cucumber! (Andrew is feeling great because of lots of performance experience.)

Pauline: I love everyone! People should come and see the performance. Especially people with disabilities.

Cheryl: I think families should come and watch our show.

Margot: I think Kevin is coming.

One more rehearsal and then the season! There is no turning back! Break a leg and all that!

Jo

mmmmm….. let me see, yesterday wasn’t a good day for all of us. Again, I wasn’t feeling good again but this time, we had problem to another problem and delays and hadn’t stop till the end of day.

Any way ex the problems and the delays, Jo went another blog and she had nothiced that they have a photo with umbellera bunch up. So we had to think what would happen the scene… we had no idea, so we take that idea from it and we did the idea or theme of rain. we did the positive and negitive sides of the rain and the ideas went well. I was a little surprised that chyral did very well with the umbellera…. well done chyral.

Any way, I have to go and we will also be away for 2 week holiday, and we will be back by then.

Ciao for now. And here are of the photos that I have taken.

We tried out Pauline’s human puppet idea with strings and used music as inspiration for movement. What was interesting was the wide range of movements that the exercise encouraged. We also began to think of stories that grew out of the exercise.

The second half of the workshop involved the shadow screen. some really interesting movements and shapes were created in silhouette. Again there were lots of ideas for performance generated. We talked about the theme again and I sked everyone to bring an umbrella for next week.

Here are some pics of the puppet ex.