Poses of the Day: Friday

 

Movement Workshop with Antoine Hunter

Antoine Hunter, a local dancer, joined us today and facilitated an energetic movement workshop.  We learned about various ways to move our bodies and how we can create a story using movement.

The video shows our process and at the end you will see our movement story "Freeing the Bird."

What Are You Doing? Game

We played a game that helped us with thinking on the spot and going with the flow! The "What Are You Doing" game is explained here by Maribel and Andrew.

Person A asks Person B what s/he is doing. Person B answers and Person A acts it out. While Person A acts it out, Person B asks Person A what s/he is doing.  Person A answers, and Person B acts out the action. This goes on until an action is repeated or if someone can't think of anything fast enough!

Poses of the day: Thursday

What we did today: Day 4

Today we focused on movement!  There are many ways to express ourselves through movement, be it through dance, gestures, or total-body physical theatre work.

We watched clips of dancers such as Antoine Hunter and the Wild Zappers Dance Company.  We also viewed Russell Harvard's interpretation of Nicki Minaj's "Turn Me On" and discussed sign choices. We then did a series of fun theatre exercises that focused on creative physical expressions!

 

What we did today: Day 3

We developed our own solo performance/film piece that involved at least two characters with one teaching another character something.  This was inspired by Rosa Lee Timm's piece called "My Deaf Lady."  Some of us filmed our work.

We also created our own "ASL Campfire Story" in which a story is begun and each person adds a scene to the story.

Solo pieces with two or more characters