VOICE
We decided everthing we're going to do for our Voice Showing tomorrow (which is supposed to be an open class). I have to look at "Lady with the Lapdog" again, since we finished that work in September... It seems like eons ago.
MOVEMENT
Movement Professor returned, and wanted to see what we learned in our 4 days of tap classes. She spent about 40 minutes choreographing a little tap routine that we may-or-may-not end up doing in our Movement Showing a week from Friday.
After that, we moved onto our Contact Improv trios.
ACTING
Acting Professoressa says that the next step that we have to take with our monologues is determining "How can this heightened language help me to get what I want?" We have to go for the power of the language, and try to use the opportunities that Shakespeare has given us.
Big Show worked on his sonnet (#97). Here are some of the "doings" (tactics) that he tried.
Q1: embrace/kiss deeply/beg/tug
Q2: charm/tickle
Q3: beg/tug/embrace/kiss deeply/wring/massage/squeeze
C4: clutch
Two-Shots-Up has sonnet #62...
Q1: confess/grab
Q2: seduce/soothe/lick
Q3: expose/jolt
C4: glorify/caress
Killer has sonnet #43, which Acting Professoressa noted is one of her favorites.
Q1: nuzzle
Q2: praise/body worship (btw, how hot of a verb is that?!)
Q3: kindle/awaken/arouse/spank
C4: spark/freeze
And then I went!
After my first read of it, Acting Professoressa gave me the note "Leave your face alone."
Big Show volunteered to play my "other" for my second try.
My original Doings were:
Q1: comfort/caress
Q2: engage/grab
Q3: bait/drag/(tease)
C4: excite/massage
The only one we ended up changing was the third quatrain (which seems to be one that EVERYONE ends up changing). So now it's...
Q1: comfort/caress
Q2: engage/grab
Q3: tease/tickle
C4: excite/massage
After the second time I read it, Acting Professoressa said it was greatly improved, and that I needed to remember what I did that changed it so greatly. She called it "trusting yourself". I would call it "simplifying"... or maybe "not worrying about whether my audience understands it" (because although the goal is always to get the audience to understand what we're saying, I have a tendency to underestimate them and overplay things in order to make sure that they get it).
Newbie started her sonnet, but we changed her premise, so we're starting with her again tomorrow.
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