Multimedia - Exploring Chours

Today we spent the lesson working on the chours. The first half of the lesson was dedicated to working with mr crowther on the - . This piece of chous is going to be preformed out side on the courtyard while the audience watch from a window. The majority of the chrous is preformed unison. However, there is a small part of the chours where we devised some actions in groups. These actions would be done in a canon where we start one after another. These set phrases would then be repeated over and over again untill we all stop on a key word. My group had the line '____'. After a quick descusion we decided that we would try and symbolically replicate a mountin range.  This was done by all of us standing/lunging in a semi circle. The people as the back would stand, and ther nearer you were to the front the lower down you were. Alex would then burst out of the 'moutins' to create the idea of a wild beast. I found that one of the main challenges was keeping in time as a group. It tool a while for the us as a chours to find a rythem. This may have been because we werent speaking the lines, therefore we found it harder to find a genral rythem as normally the speech connects us to a rythem. I really enjoyed this exersice as it was a physical exersice. I felt you could really get stuck in and connect the play to the way your body moves. Sometimes my acting is only in the face and doesnt go into the body so i found it very benifical to connect my movments. The next part of the lesson was also dedictaed to working on a chours. But this time it was a different chours that was about prasing the Gods. This peice evolved around bringing awareness to the Gods and their superiority. This was done by raising our eyes and hands to the heveans while saying our lines. We then created the skyline of 'rome'. Abstract shapes were formed with our bodys to create the shilohet of what would be Rome. To me this seems to symbolise the view from the heavens(hows the Gods see earth) They do not look at the day to day part of each person life but the broad idea of what happens on earth. It shows their superiotry and strength and therefore gives respect. I also enjoy how everybody became one voice. Sometimes is theatre it can become you and the people on stage and there is no sense of a communtiy but when your doing th chours its different. Everbody supports each other and you become one body on stage.