Movement # 18

Miming, ballet, and Meyerhold biomechanics. The miming lesson was pretty interesting in the way that they mimed the whole thing with signs. It was also kind of annoying that the mimed the whole thing, espeically when we found out that none of us could speak either. We had to be "unlocked." I liked the lesson nevertheless. The ballet lesson really showed me exactly why I do not want to be a dancer. Payden, Nerissa, and Alisha really rushed through their lesson to show exactly... well, I'm not sure what they tried to get across. It was just really quick and frustrating. The biomechanics lesson was fine. It was an interesting topic to hear about, but I would have liked to see a better example of biomechanics in a monologue.

Movement # 17

We had presentations today. Suzuki, yoga, and Michael Chekhov. The suzuki one reminded me of Peter's class last year and how suzuki was the hardest thing to do in the world. We had yoga afterwards, and they claimed it was going to be relaxing. Let me be the first to say that happened very zero percent, sir. If anything, I felt yoga was worse than suzuki because suzuki doesn't ask me to contort my body in unnatural manners.

Movement # 16

We performed some more movement monologues. I was going to go, but I didn't get the chance. Besides, I like just watching.

Movement #14 & 15

The past two times of class we worked on the monologues and then performed them. It seemed to me like I wasn't the only one that had a hard time with this, as other people said it out loud. A lot of the movements were very dancey, some weren't. I was afraid for mine, so I didn't get up and do mine just yet. Some were really well done, like Dory's. Her's was very moving. Some were hilarious, like Joe's. I also liked what Anthony was having us do. He had us put on neutral masks while performing and had us watch and see if there were any differences between the two.

Movement #13

So, remember those monologues we chose in class? Today all we did was recite them while walking around the room leading with different parts of our body. We led with our heads, chests, stomachs, and legs. It was interesting to see what differences these body parts made. One made my character more confident while another made him cocky and unwanted. I'll definitely keep these in mind for later use.

Movement # 12

So we chose monologues to work on in class today. My monologue had to do with a guy who was severely traumatized by the fact that he saw his father strangle his mother to death. It's pretty simple and straightforward. What we did with the monologue, though, was hard. We had to take the words and put movement in their place. It was hard because my monologue isn't a movement one. We had to point out all the movement words. What did I have? "Threw." The end.

Movement # 11

Today was hard. We were the animals we weren't most like this time. How the hell was I supposed to act like a fish? Oh, you know, pretending to swim around the ocean on dry land. o.O I didn't like being a fish one bit.

Movement # 9 & 10

I wasn't in class for movement #9, but we drew our faces. We looked at our faces and found shapes within it. I did this outside of class and I was surprised to find that I would look amazing as a Transformer. I have some pretty radical shapes on my face, I tell you. :)

Movement # 10 we played around with animals. We were to choose an animal that we were like and an animal we weren't like. I chose a bear because, well, if I were to ever be an animal, I'd be a bear. I'm strong and calm but can also stir up some trouble if needed. What I didn't know was that I was supposed to be choosing one based on movement. It was hard to move like a bear, I tell you. I was partnered with Marlena, who chose her animal as a raccoon. I thought it was a great choice. She really was a raccoon.