A fantastic start to the term.
We had an amazing 22 students today and it was so great to see the 'newbies' welcomed into what is fast becoming the best young actors ensemble in Sussex.
We began with some introduction games and warm up exercises. It's very important in a first session to start with focus and fun. Focus, so that we set up how we want to move things forward through the term and fun to recognise that learning to act and acting in itself involves a lot of playing. The best actors make it look so easy because they are having fun when they do it.
Tanushka and I tend to work quite spontaneously and so it was today. A two group exercise where each group had to create a 'portrait' of a moment turned into a most wonderful example of a full group tableaux. Within this artistic picture, relationships flourished and wonderful stories began to come alive. It inspired us to ask, what are these relationships? How did they get to this point where they have frozen?
And so the second half of the session focused on these very questions. Through use of text, devising and improvisation every member, new and old, performed a small snippet of a relationship or character that had been inspired by the tableaux.
It is always a privilege working with young performers but there's something special about Blatchington Mill Acting Club and I can't wait to see what we come up with this new term.
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