9/1/09

Movement:
I did my movement assignment last night. I don't draw so I had tons of fun printing pictures off the internet and cutting them out and rubber cementing them to the paper. Rubber cement is my friend! Anywho, nothing about the assignment really surprised me. I wasn't sure what to put under what I wanted to learn to do with my body. I put that I want to be stronger and more flexible so I'd have more options. That's kind of a jumping off point for me. I'm not exactly sure what I want to do with my body except be strong enough and comfortable enough with myself to take more risks and be able to experiment with a wider range of movement. Under what I like about my body I put "the fact that everything works." Then I couldn't think of anything else. I wrote a couple things I liked but I kinda thought, "Hey, if everything works, that's a pretty good body right there, done and done." Anywho so experimenting with planes. We never really just use one plane. It's like every motion you make uses two or all of them. I was trying to tell a story about a couple who talked to me at work and I was trying to isolate my hands, but there just weren't many things I could do with my hands that would add to the effect of the story without distracting from it. And with each movement plane there were parts of the story where movements in that plane helped and other parts where moving in that plane didn't help. And the parts changed with the planes. It was kinda cool because it felt like a puzzle. Like you could snatch different pieces from different planes and turn the story into a really interesting movement picture that all looks like one image but is made up of differently shaped pieces.

I really liked the idea of the three different types of gestures and I think the next time I do a monologue I'll try it first using all descriptive gestures, then all punctuative (is that how you spell that?) gestures, then all personal gestures so I can see which pieces go where in my little movement puzzle. Same with the plane isolations. Now I'm jazzed!