This week was spirit week in Stallion territory. Last night the Stallions defeated the Cougars from South Brunswick! It was an excellent homecoming despite the weather as our Varsity football team brought their own kind of thunder and lightning to the field after the down-pour! Congrats to Crystal, Dawaitus and Taylor, our 2011 - 2012 reigning beauties of the Homecoming Court! Here are a few picks of some of my BRATS are gussied up for spirit day!
Theater One!
Our lovely masks!
As promised, this week in Theater One we played with our masks. The purpose of the mask was to give my students an opportunity to explore characterization. I asked them to describe their mask with three adjectives that most accurately personified their mask and then I gave them a few moments to look at themselves in the mirror while wearing their mask. This allowed them to become comfortable (because they thought is was a little strange) and to begin to consider the character they had created.
Later, I asked them how their character would walk and instructed them to explore the character further by walking like that person. We also discussed the idea of a grand gesture (a characters's dominant gesture). My students used the three adjectives they chose to decide upon a grand gesture for their character.
Through out the week the class created/performed improvisational scenes for their characters. Here are some pictures and a brief description of the final scenes on Friday.
Monkey alert!
More monkeying around!
Lousy blind date!
Class room chaos!
Snobby Girls!
Tattoo parlor!
Excellent work Theater One!
Advanced Theater!
This week in Advanced Theater we analayzed our characters (a 58 question survey about each charcter being studied/performed) and created masks for them. We continued to work on characterization while working out scenes in our plays. On Monday we will have lines testing to determine which play/s will be taken to Play Festival in November.
As Alan (This is a Test) would say, study, study, study!!!
Advanced Dance!
In Advanced Dance we discussed the similarities and differences between classical composition, Danse Macabre (french for dance of death or dance of the spirits) by Camille Saint Saens and the ever popular Thriller by the late and respected Prince of Pop, Michael Jackson.
What we discovered was that even though these songs differ greatly in style or genre the meaning behind each selection is nearly identical. Even the qualities of the music coincided. For example, in the beginning of Danse Macabre the orchestra chimes the clock ticking to midnight. Similarly, in Thriller, Michael's fancy footsteps set the scene to wake the dead.
...but don't take my word for it, see for yourself. Watch the videos and see what you think.
Midnight Dance - Animation to Danse Macabre
Thriller by Michael Jackson
~ Mrs. Amy Jones.
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