Lecoq - Entering characters (1)
The most frustrating week at Lecoq yet. My notes are also frustratingly incomplete.
Monday:
With Francois in movement, we played around with our character walk. Similar to the mask - Moving with our head forward, chest, hips, feet, finding different ways of leading our bodies.
With Anne in improv,
In LEM, we got together in threes and wrote out everything we thought 'The Elephant Vanishes' held. Obviously the work of this semester is absurdity and humanity and existence, so those are bigger themes - broken down into ideas like the invisible, the city, nature, colors, food, boucle sans fin, repetition, opposition, light, material - and then we chose a theme or opposition and moved it.
Tuesday:
With Anne in movement, we explored our character walk, how we ran, and how they sit, and how they put on a vest.
With Yasuyo in improv, we were grouped into whether our characters were rich, poor, had higher social class or lower, worked with the brain or with the body. Then they were placed into a situation...
Wednesday:
With Anne in movement, we explored extreme situations with our characters. First, it was having the train cancel on us, then getting stuck in a train that caught fire. Then it was a situation where there was a sniper. We had to find le gamme, but also the humanity of the situation. Does the off-duty military man risk his life to save civilians?
With Eric, our characters were placed into groups - Characters that directed, who were rich, who were poor, who were directed. Then we got to see them in a situation where there was a boss, an assistant, and someone who arrived. Also, another situation where 3 people came in for an interview.
With Federick we moved elements in our characters. Can we react with fire, water, air or earth?
With Yasuyo we continued the in-depth interview of the characters.
In LEM, we moved 3 stories from 'The Elephant Vanishes', and my team moved the dwarf that danced. LEM work is paying off, and I'm enjoying it immensely. We first moved our memory of it, then re-read the story through the lenses of 'sound' and 'color', and performed our interpretation of it with some rectangular blocks.
Thursday:
With Eric, we took a little trip out into sea on the Black Pearl. We head to the docks and on our left, we find the rope that ties the boat to the dock. We untie it and pull the boat towards us, and flank it against the port so we can climb on. Once on, we grab a stick to push the boat off the dock. We hoist the sails, the settle to the back to maneuvre the sails out of port. Then we turn the boat starboard as we exit port. Don't forget to duck under the swinging sails! Once we're out in the sea, we drop the sails and drop anchor. Then we take our net and throw it into the sea to catch some poissons. Ah, the sea is inviting! Let's drop our clothes and take a dive and a swim. The sun is clear in the ocean and so is it in the grande salle, sun filtering down the roof windows. Once we're done with the crystal ocean, we turn back to the boat, and hoist ourselves back up. We prop our heads on our clothes, our feet on the many poissons, and let the rocking of the waves take us.
With Paola, we introduced our characters again, and had a little situation in the building where 5 neighbours get together to discuss a problem. How do we stick to the theme and play it right from the beginning? Can we have the first people on scenes to hint at the brewing trouble? We also see the playing of the invisible - when Joon doesn't get a text to say to Guillaume, we see him brush by him, and then the effect of that. It's also our job to read between the lines and interpret that too.
Friday:
Acrobatics and Autocour.
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