Rachel Lincoln - Movement Director

This session for me was the most helpful it really helped me to have a further understanding for my character. The aim of the lesson was for us to find our inner man adopting conventional male characteristics into our bodies.

We started the session focused on our coats (clothing) and they way we remove and put on our coat and experimented with putting them on in different ways and in different scenarios, e.g. 'It freezing out side' - this made me put the coat on with great pace to shield my-self from the cold. 'its boiling hot' this was taking the coat off and i did it slowly whilst trying to loosen my clothing. this was a good way of being aware of the way you do things so in order to change it when becoming a different person. Rachel said that when becoming a character change the little things that they do don't do them as you would do them, tie your shoes in a different way or poor your tea differently all these things will help you develop your character.

After that exsersize we then imagend our coats where a solders uniform and we took them on and off and we notised that we where very careful with the coats. they were the identaty to who these men were. We were then asked to walk around the space in our coats as uniform and too see how that effected the way we walked we all walked around the space with a perpose and it was very interesting to see how peoples physacality changed.

After this we put Our coats to the side and we were asked to stand in a space. We had to put our hand up if we could name a part of the body that was different in men then in woman. and once we had these all named we spoke about how to adopt these physicalitys. the most inportand things that were mentioned where.

Pelvis is foward
legs far apart
footsteps where heavier
minimal movement in the hips
head, shoulders, chest where all coneccted and spaced out

Once we had this down we where asked to find somewhere to sit down and relax we where told that men take up a lot more space then woman, legs apart arms maybe behind head and we spend some time getting used to being in this physicality.

We the worked on the opening factory scene and we had to get into groups of 4-6 and divise a small section on loop that represented assembly line or factory life. and once everyone had created theres we put them all together and created the opening.