Today in Mr Kelly’s lesson he explained as actors we need to
start creating different atmospheres in our performances, rather that always
being dark and sadly emotional. He showed us clips of ‘magic to do’ from Pippin
and ‘can you feel the love tonight’ from the Disney World show of The Lion
King, this made me realise that to create an affective performance I don’t need
to resort to dark, sad stories to create atmospheres, I can venture down a love
story or cheesy happy stories.
Sir did contradict himself by then giving us a dance that he
choreographed to a song from ‘Moulin Rouge’ which told a sad story and basic
outline of ‘Moulin Rouge’. I felt this stretched me as an actor as I played an
unfamiliar character of someone who buys prostitutes. It was challenging to try
to dance whilst being in an unfamiliar character that I have not researched. I
felt it went well but I could have done better if I looked into the type of
person I was portraying and have some background information for the character.
During the lesson I learnt how to enter the emotions a
character is going through by imagining the scenario happening to me and how I
would feel in their shoes. This I can take with me and really understand the
feelings of my characters but it also helped me understand what I should be
feeling for the dance and how my face should look during the performance.
Getting this feeling in my head helped me get the feeling in my eyes, which I
learnt is the place that shows believable emotions for the audience.
Overall the lesson was fun and really insightful, I feel
that the dance looked good and dramatic and I feel that I learned a lot about
the emotions of characters and the use of facial excretions that start from the
eyes.
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