RESEARCH
Physical theatre is used to describe any mode of performance that pursues storytelling or drama through primarily and secondarily physical and mental means. There are several quite distinct but indistinct traditions of performance which all describe themselves using the term "physical theatre", which has led to a lot of confusion as to what the definition of physical theatre actually is.Physical theatre is the art of creating objects with the human body, either as a single person or as a group. Physical theatre is an art that is becoming more and more popular in the theatres. Modern physical theatre has grown from a variety of origins. Mime and theatrical clowning schools, such as L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, have had a big influence on many modern expressions of physical theatre, and practitioners such as Steven Berkoff and John Wright received their initial training at such institutions. As well as ideas outside of the western theatre tradition creeping in gradually, there is a tradition from within Western theatre, too, starting with Stanislavski. Stanislavski, later on in life, began to reject his own ideas of naturalism, and started to pursue ideas relating to the physical body in performance.
WORKSHOP
To start with we were given different words to spell out with our bodies as a group, we started with the word "PINK" we could either do uppercase or lowercase letters...
Physical theatre is used to describe any mode of performance that pursues storytelling or drama through primarily and secondarily physical and mental means. There are several quite distinct but indistinct traditions of performance which all describe themselves using the term "physical theatre", which has led to a lot of confusion as to what the definition of physical theatre actually is.Physical theatre is the art of creating objects with the human body, either as a single person or as a group. Physical theatre is an art that is becoming more and more popular in the theatres. Modern physical theatre has grown from a variety of origins. Mime and theatrical clowning schools, such as L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, have had a big influence on many modern expressions of physical theatre, and practitioners such as Steven Berkoff and John Wright received their initial training at such institutions. As well as ideas outside of the western theatre tradition creeping in gradually, there is a tradition from within Western theatre, too, starting with Stanislavski. Stanislavski, later on in life, began to reject his own ideas of naturalism, and started to pursue ideas relating to the physical body in performance.
WORKSHOP
To start with we were given different words to spell out with our bodies as a group, we started with the word "PINK" we could either do uppercase or lowercase letters...
After this we did the word "LOVE"...
We then had the harder task to creat different objects as a group, we had to create: a washing machine; a broken washing machine; and a Bicycle...
To end the workshop we had to do a piece from Goldilocks and the Three Bears by one of us being Goldilocks and the rest of us acting out the different pieces of furniture such as: the bowls; the beds; the chairs; and the stairs up to the bedrooms. We performed this in front of a small audience and each of them understood what we were trying to do and what items of furniture we were being.
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