Chair Duets – Day 19 in Kenya
September 24, 2010
Deciding what material to include in the Schools Show
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So we’ve been working with Kenya collective for 3 weeks now, and done some really cool stuff 
I think my favourite session so far was when we did physical theatre. We sat in pairs and made up short (10 move) sequences and did them loads of times so they stuck in our heads. Then we joined the 2 pairs together, and Paul and Gareth added theirs as well. After that we worked out the transitions and got quite good at doing our bits fast.
At first I found it a bit difficult but when I got into it I really enjoyed it. Out final piece was so cool, and then making up the story and seeing how it changed with the music was interesting. I think it looks really effective, and is a great way of performing drama without speaking, but still showing emotions and relationships. Definitely gonna use the technique in our devised A Level performance!
I also liked the stomp workshop we did today cos I got to make lots of noise and I think we could incorporate it into our piece as well – if we used the idea of starting off as monkeys and then building up the piece “instrument” by “instrument”, that’s a plus. I liked the idea of using our memories of Kenya as a starting point and I hope the idea of setting our scene on a car bonnet will work well! And yeah it’s just been really fun so far!
Lulu Fidelo – Student at Hillcrest Secondary School
