Key Takeaway’s Voice is dependent on the body. Main muscles ; Diaphragm, pelvic floor Important to keep knees not locked. Think of sand piling at bottom of the pelvic floor, and then legs hollow, so the sand falls down into the feet. make sure jaw is loose, shoulders are loose, hips are loose. Pull belly-button […]
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Practioner workshop 1: Jerzy Grotowski
If you want to create a masterpiece, you must avoid beautiful lies. This is MY EYES encapsulates the essence of Grotowski. Throughout the workshop, I found myself understanding Grotowski as someone who wanted to deal with the raw, primal, ugly and beautiful emotions humans experience on a day to day basis but hate confronting. The […]
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Zen Zen Zo reflection 2 (Suzuki and Butoh Work)
In this session we developed the skills learnt from the last lesson, and worked on some Butoh work as well. Firstly, we developed a new resting position, which was going from the wide neutral stance to the ground, with hands over the knees, and upper body relaxed, i.e head hanging, similar to the picture here. […]
Zen Zen Zo reflection 1 (Suzuki work)
Reflection 1 ( 26th April) We started the lesson by reviewing the basics of Tadashi Suzuki’s acting method. Since this was my first time working with Suzuki, I found a lot of this very interesting as I had not engaged with the physical side of theatre as much as I would have liked to. The […]
Silat workshop (theatre)
Background: Silat is a type of martial art, practised in the Malay peninsula. There are many types of Silat, different schools teach different types, tiger, eagle, etc. There is actual combat, and also a performance aspect. Weapons used include the parang (a farming tool with a sharp edge) and Keris (dagger with jagged edges […]