Warming up in Theatre

Thursday 12th September 2013
Warming up in Theatre

Getting into Neutral

We started off our warm up by walking around the room in different paces so that we relax our bodies and show that we have spacial awareness. We then moved onto doing leg swings which relaxed our leg muscles and warmed us up. We looked straight ahead and kept our bodies in neutral to make us more comfortable before acting.

We then swung our arms around at different paces to have the same outcome that the leg swings gave us. We then caused friction between our hands which made warmth and then we warmed up and massaged our faces so that we were relaxed and ready to get into a neutral state and prepared to act any role.

We laid on the floor with our eyes open and imagined a small feather on our lips and did exercises that controlled our breathing and the amount of breaths we take whilst doing different noises which could use our voice box or just breath.

We then had our eyes closed and imagined a small movement our characters will make in the play and then we imagined how we would perform it. We then imagined other thoughts about our characters which helped us explore ways in which our character would act and things that can some up their past and future. This helped us in the next activity as we wrote about our characters in the first person and had to imagine things that were not necessarily obvious in the script. This helped us make a profile of our characters and this would also help us discover ways in which we can act this.