But we didnt use it so much. She focused in making us to connect each part of our body with the way we breath so we wouldnt hurt our vocal cords at the time we were going to use it.
We started showing her our warming up and she recorded us. I didnt felt any secure with it because our teacher was most of the time telling what to do if we were doing it bad and we didnt use music to relax. In this case we had to do it alone. She told us not to use music because we had to create ourself rythm and hear what everyone else was doing. It was more difficult in my opinion, because i didnt knew how to follow my partners when parctically i couldnt hear anything.
I relaxed first and finished first the warming up, which put me very nervous because i didnt knew if i had done it well.
The class continued when Pilar make us change our sitting position so we wouldnt be like the public. She spoke and spoke and eventhough most of my partners tired themselfs and sit like they were at the start i wanted to follow what she told me.
Pilar showed us the movement that we made incounsciously with our body while breathing in a lot of positions. We worked at this the most of the time so we could controll our body with our respiration.
She made us feel tired with exercises but didnt let us to breath as we were tired. She made us breath controlling our respiration. It was an interesting exercise because i never had though that actors got tired so much.
She also spoke us about or base position and told us we didnt have to stand like that. Pilar made us bend our knees and put our arms in a strange way so it would look relax but for us it wouldnt be like that.
I saw actors do some strange things with their body such as acrobatics and those things... it its necessary to have those abilities to be an actor?
If an actor is about to luck off breath will he or she breath normally to care himself or will he hurt him so he would be able to make a great presentation?
Instead of trying to make sense of the things you are learning, your attitude of detachment is not helping you to learn as much as you can. Try to start with the obvious: the actors' tool is his body, and if he doesn't know how to control it, then he won't be able to perform to his full potential. The "strange" things you do during training are meant to prepare your body for acting. If you don't know what your body is capable of doing, then how could you work on an acceptable performance?
ResponderEliminarBlog entries should try to look for answers and make connections between the different aspects of the course, and not just be restricted to one type of activity.
Roberto