First week complete!

First week complete!

Just kinda was dropped into everything that we left. Worked on our scenes with Dexter, where I have to do two because of only having nine in the class. I actually love being able to work with two, it gives me an opportunity to work twice on everything we are learning.

The scenes I'm working on are:
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Strangers, Babies.

My partner and I are doing the first scene  in Strangers and Babies. A baby bird flies into the glass balcony window of our flat and May (my wife) is incredibly worried for the bird and wants to take care of it. I (Dan) am trying to keep May from being upset and getting overly attached to the bird. There are undertones of the perturbed past of May, and the strain it puts on our relationship.

Dinner with Friends.

I just rushed over to my best friends house (Gabe) after having a fight and hatefilled sex with my soon to be Ex-Wife. I'm coming over to Gabes house to tell my side of the story of why I cheated on my wife. It comes out that I cheated because we've lost our spark, but the scene is really between how Gabe reacts and handles/treats everything.

We have this incredibly awesome breakdown, and added with Dexter's coaching, its really eye-opening.  Can't wait to see how the rest of the scenes go.
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Feldenkrais

We did two ATM (Attention to Movement). First was trying to put a book on the sole of our foot, then without holding the book, try to move it around the room. It was quite frustrating but fun at the same time. Learned a lot about how we think when given a problem, and the progression of using our bodies to fix said problem when given restrictions (No crawling, hoping, etc.)

Second ATM was laying on one side, and trying to see how we move our legs on both sides of our spine. How we did it, how far we could do it, how efficient we do it were all explored. We also were given a task, on one side we had to press the floor with our heel, then the other our toes. It made me realize that I limit ourselves and not thinking about how we can go in two planes.

Linklater

After our first day of reviewing last quarters work, we started exploring how our tounges work, and how much tension we hold in it. It was really interesting, and really hard to explain.

Stage Speech

This is one of the new classes! We are learning how speech is actually formed. It seemed incredibly difficult to understand, but once it was explained I think I'm following.
http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/consonants.html

There is a website going over what we learned. Click the symbol and listen to the sound. Basically we learned how those sounds are made with how we move our mouth. Really cool, and going to help with dialects later on! Coolness!

Yoga

Yoga. I yoga'd.

Meisner 

Wiki that. It's really cool, a new acting technique that we are learning. Also hard to explain.

Seminar

Big quarter of learning Shakespeare basically. We had our first class learning the history of theater from the greeks to the Renaissance.

That was my week! Tried to explore the city, but wasn't out too long. Cleaned up the apartment and just settling in to being in the city again.