Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Stepping Up to The Stage: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 

Warm-Up & Vocal Flexing & Improvisation
Game #1: Silent Scream
(All participate. Sit in round.  No sound. Purpose is to feel emotion with your whole body.) 

• Scream with your toes.
• Scream with yoru eyebrows. 
• Scream with your eyes.
• Scream with your back.
• Scream with your stomach.
• Scream with your legs.
• (Now--Volunteer ideas) 
• Scream with your whole body.
• Scream out loud.

Game #2: Silent Tension Scenes
(Pairs participate.  In front of the group.  Purpose is to experience the nonverbal tension of a scene)

• Miner's family waiting for news after a mineshaft disaster.
• Elderly couple hearing a burglar downstairs
• Two sweethearts who have just broken their engagement
• A mother seeing her teenage child for the first time whom she gave up for adoption when he was a baby
• (Student suggestions)

Game #3: Beatnik Poetry
(Triads participate.  In front of the group.  Lined up. Purpose is to collaborate and create a poem based on two subjects.)

• A Tennis ball & A tadpole
• A Peach & The World Cup
• A Sharpened pencil & Brigadeiro
• A question mark & A microphone
• A stopwatch & A kiss

Assessments Returned (on Veracross)

• Poetry on Record (sent to Taylor Mali) 
• Improvisation Lesson

Philosophical Chairs

• Debrief the emotion from last session 
• Set Ground Rules/Norms for Debate
• 4 Philosophical Chairs Topics (2 we will write on and 2 we will verbally debrief)

1. War is unavoidable
2. Men can care for children as well as women
3. Adopted Children should be given information about their natural parents before the age of 18
4. The right to die should be a fundamental human right