Dance! #4

     Today we stretched and did a completely different style of dance from the others we did.  It was Fossie.  This dance was to the music "All That Jazz," from the Broadway show "Chicago."  What was really cool and different about fossie was that it wasn't so much that the moves were complicated, but they were the kind that were simple and had to be perfected to get that isolated body movement affect.

Acting #4!

     Our last mind blowing experience had come.  We did the usual, but yet it still made us feel oddly about our feelings.  One thing we did was improvisation.  I played the part of girl who was in competition for a role in a ballet with a girl who was terminally ill.  I learned from this that sometimes you just have to let go in improve, not get into all the details, making it clear for the audience, and do what they want to see, which is plainly letting the other person get what they wanted.  In my case in the improve, it was the part in the ballet.

Dance! #3

     I can't believe my reactions.  In dance, we were stretching, in a normal fashion.  Then came a twist which made me laugh and cry so hard and I couldn't stop till the oddly strong feeling eased away.  A person was supposed to sickle their foot into my thigh, close to the knee, until an odd feeling went streaming trough my leg. They would then press hard there for about a minuet, until the muscle relaxed.  It made my legs feel light and floaty, and longer then ever.  I have never seen anything like it.

Acting #3!

     Jim Bonnie is almost a hypnotist, with his skills of making a person feel exactly how he wants them to feel.  If he wants you to feel sadness, he will make you pretend that you are in a melancholy situation.  He told us that by putting ourselves in a certain mood before we perform, can really have a great impact on the believability of our acting.  This is because, if we are really feeling a certain way, it is really no longer acting, but you being that character and feeling that character's feelings.