The Amygdala: Practitioners; Peter Brook

We began the lesson with last week's Misorgi exercise in order to cleanse our actor's pallets. 

Three different songs were played: Adagio by Mozart, Violent Noise by XX, Our Prayer by Brian Wilson. 

We started off imitating a lone octopus and experimenting with movements that fed of the music, then we combined as dolphins by joining into small groups of three/four and creating a single synchronised movement, then we formed into a shoal of Moon Fish and moved as one being. Each of the pieces created very different movements, although there was far more diversity between octopi than between moonfish, as synchronised movement is far harder to differentiate between.

We then worked on becoming an ensemble by trying an exercise called trust falls. Half the class had to traverse the room with their eyes shut and the other half had to tap them on the shoulder. If this happened they must fall and the tapper must catch them.

Peter Brook

We then spent the day presenting workshops on various practitioners. Our group had to do a workshop on Peter Brook, a theatre practitioner and writer who has had a massive impact on the way theatre is presented internationally.

Peter Brook Breakdown