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1. We started our class with writing down words and a sentence on a piece of card and put it on the ground. Then we walk around and choose a card and we have to express the word with movements. Then we would get into groups of two, and we have to act out a scene that's related to the word on the card. After that, it gets really interesting. All of the groups joined together and we made a whole play out of the fragments from each of our previous movements, and the ending was really dynamic, and it was really fun. I learned that sometimes group work can be easier if we can just tear them up into little pieces and when we perfected all the little fragments, we can put them together and the work can be very surprising. 2. The first person will imagine an object, an object that can be physically controlled or touched, then the first person must do some movement to tell the other teammates what the object is, and then when the time is up, the second person in the team must go up there...

Caroline: Everyone can take a moment, Write performance instead of writing text. What can you do, stage, the setting's write plot? Around that capture potential of space Favorite moment: Gesture, not text React in a natural way to senses Experimentation key to moment work, see what works. Helena: Props moment, suitcase, pillow, flour sifter - manipulating props in different ways can achieve different meanings, emotions, scenes/plots. Moments can lead to 'writing performance' in the scene "Get our hands dirty" = experiment "A-ha moment" = moment of recognition "Discursive power" = act of speaking on stage "Giving titles" = name them to remember Costume moment: wedding dress, boa, red dress. Create emotion, an element of surprise, direct attention to do something specific on stage. Maddie Lighting; create mood, shaped space, direct eye, time of day - Compliment the nar...

     This trip to Newyork was such a great experience for me, we've watched two awesome plays and learned so much from the workshop.      I had a lot of awesome experience in ISTA, we've discovered a lot of new ways to proceed theatre. One thing that was really memorable was an activity we did on the second day in the workshop. We need to walk around the room and when the teacher speaks out a word that's a part of human body, we need to quickly find someone and have that part of the body stick together and keep walking. We are allowed to have more than two people sticking together, so it's normal to see a bunch of people stuck together and it can be hilarious. Further on, the teacher will stop calling out body parts, and we are allowed to seek for people by ourselves and sometimes people are just really confused.      We have started a little Chinese theatre workshop going on the second day at ISTA. We've learned how a lot of movements and ...

Ideas for stimulus in theatre. Find a picture and a poem, within 5 minutes, try to create a short show that's somehow similar to the picture and has at least one line of a poem used in the show.