We are basing our whole group piece on Quizoola by Tim Etchells - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7naFehT5DEM - I was a little unsure after the lesson on what exactly the term 'Quizoola' meant so i watched this video which really clarified it all for me. In this the audience can ask the actors on stage any question about anything, the actors are often in clown make-up and the answer to the question can be a serious response, a funny response or even an insane response. Anything goes and nothing is really wrong.
Our teachers had decided that the questions asked to us, we will have a physical response to:
We got into pairs and the first question was 'what was the last thing that made you laugh?' My partner was Georgia and we both seemed to find the answer in eachother, we would often rest on one another showing the relaxation and happiness we felt when laughing at the thing that made us laugh and we often found ourselves genuinally laughing at the thought of 'the last thing that made us laugh' which made our movements truthful. I cant remember exactly what I did but i think that is the point as you are meant to be channelling that emotion, not really thinking too much into it which is what we both did. I liked working with a partner on this question as you could work off whatever movement they was doing and could find that answer within eachother which really made it feel real and not forced.
We then moved on to the more 'challenging' part - all 75 of us had to create a 'sunset' - we had to collaborate with eachother and work off/with multiple people. We all worked together and at first we did tend to communicate vocally instead of phsically which goes against the task but nonetheless we did create a picturesque image of a sunset using our bodies and despite tending to use vocal direction off one another, we did work as a team and as one.
We then created 'ocean waves' a lot of people ended up 'whooshing' and really creating the motion and senses of an 'ocean wave' some others preffered a more abstract version of it and some others created the emotion that a person would have in response to an ocean wave. This time, we all worked less vocally but instead listened to one anothers bodies.
After this, our 3 teachers then chose 4 people to stand at the front and they were all asked a question - we then had to act their answer out in movement, whether we showed an abstract version of their answer or a literal representation of their answer was up to us. Some people didn't take this task very seriously and wasnt as emotionally and physically involved as others so the concentration and energy in the room had a slight dip.
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