Just a short blurb on what I did with Mark Hill today :)
The first session was with the FRINGE group. We focused on reacting to what's outside of ourselves. We started with a simple exercise about feeling when the rest of the group had turned around in a circle. This reminded me of the Group Awareness exercises from yesterday's morning session (the Up/Down lines). I found it very difficult to listen with my body for when others moved, and it was very tempting to watch the other members of the circle, and training the fixed point focus to the wall was increasingly difficult as the tempo quickened.
The second exercise was brilliant, to say the least. We had to stay in lanes, reacting to one another with movements such sitting, lying down, standing, or jumping. The pure auditory quality of the exercise was astounding enough, with the natural rhythm forming as bodies moved in and out of sync with each other. The sound of the bare feet jumping on the wooden floor was cathartic, a real, solid sound. Watching the other group, the visual added a completely different feel to the entire exhibit. The visual was very unusual, a lot of asynchronous movement. Overall, the very different images caused for a stirring and awe-inspiring improvisatory performance.
The second session in the day was one on characterization (specifically with Shakespearean plays) that was through Mrs.Wilcox's English class. This was the first workshop i had been to that actually had notes and a bit of a lecture, and i actually learned a lot. I really liked his approach as to how to build a character from the bottom up, ending with the text itself. Then i discovered that this wasn't his approach at all-- it was Anne Bogart's! Appropriate, no?
Well, another good night's rest awaits me, and another early morning with Mark Hill is on the other side of it! Yippee!
<3 Melissa
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