Story Telling Skills Part 3

Today in lesson we worked on creating and telling stories through movement. We started the lesson by being given several scenario’s we had to move to like we one was that we were a mole digging around underground, so we had to move how we think that the mole would move. We were given several things similar to this that tested our range in movement ranging from moving like animals to at one point moving how we feel a chocolate bar would move, the purpose of this was to get us to stop thinking or being self-conscious about what we how we move and to just do what feels natural to us. Another thing we practiced was our special awareness as we walked around the room with our eyes squinted shut so we could hardly see and walk around the room with our arms out to the side without crashing into each other, we were told to stop and close our eyes fully and lean as far forward as we could without falling, to me this felt like an exercise to help us to control our bodies. Next we were given a list a scenario/place like the arctic and had to create this place by becoming the environment like for the arctic we could have been snow, so we would have to show our interpretation of snow using our bodies. We did with several locations and one of us was given a character to be in the scenario. The first scenario was a garden and a rabbit, the second was the sky with a little blue bird, the third was a amazon rain forest and a monkey, the fourth was a polar bear in the artic, the fifth was a volcano and lava and the last one was a snowflake in a storm. Finally we split into two groups and had to show a story of two scenarios, one group had to show a leaf that fell from a tree and was blown away but found its way back one day, my group was given a lonely snow cloud serrated by normal clouds and how it tries to join them but can’t. Each group performed these two scenario’s using all we had learned over the space of today’s lesson for movement, control and special awareness.