【排練觀察回饋（二）】by 余文軒

 

Some Review from observation:

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Body Sensation

● Aware the touch between actor body, props & sets

● What do you feel throughout the touch? -> Sentiment

Express and release the sentiment through body

● During Repeat the same action, let it happen and changes

● Maybe through body gesture or voice -> Focus on what quality changes during the progress ?

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Imagination

● Image need to be specific and private for each actor (Small Secret)

● What had happened during that specific situation suggested by the playwright ?

(Given Circumstances)

● Let the image be around and seeing and listening to it

● Let your Body moved by what you see -> Impulse

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I think that image is similar to the target where an actor should find the private image which has a connection to himself / herself. By different targets and images, it helps us to discover the layers between each action and we should try to find a way to combine each part together to form a physical movement. The image should keep changing and let it come to you, stay until it needs to leave and let it go for the next image to come. The process is passive but we should trust the image will come through the action we invested. Sometimes the image may not work, then find a new one to surprise yourself which is a little secret that no one knows.

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Impulse

● Keep awaring body

● Let it happen instead of stopping it, or do not just follow half of the impulse

Space

● Keep distance between actors to allow development

● Space let image to fill in include onstage or offstage image

● Sense of space including yourself, partner, environment and audience

Rehearsal

● Find possibility of different form and experiment which is the closest your image

● A progress of investing the unlimited of possibility and choose the closest one

● Always investing in joyful and surprising yourself and partners

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I think that rehearsal is also a part of warm up which has unlimited ways of doing , depending on the group you're working in, the body being healthy on that day and many other factors. They do not have a standard form on how a rehearsal should be done, every rehearsal should be specific and do what it works for the group.

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PLAY & RISK

Let it Go ! Let it Go ! Can’t hold it back any more !

Sucess or Failed

Positive Feedback !

Try again !

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During the whole week of workshop, I observe that control is the evilest idea in an actor's inner self. In some way we know what will happen next and what we should do, but at the same time we over control ourselves no matter our body action, voice, image, blocking. Actor become trapped and many extra effort on our body which blocked the image to happen, we scare on what we did will affect others, we scare on can not repeat the same as yesterday rehearsal. Scared stops our discovery and being present, it traps us in the past or the future. Scared may come from under-rehearsal, unfixed image or score or many others worries. But the most important and efficient method to beat it is to just let it go, actors should turn it into joyfulness on discovering a new journey at present. Play with the script, the partners and audience.