Unleashing the animal within

So it's the end of week 2 of term 3, and I'm really tired. I think it's because we've been doing animals for two weeks now, and animals are really energetic! Especially ones like mice and spiders. Phew...
Oh, I suppose I should explain what I mean by "doing" animals. We've been exploring how animals move, not in a superficial, or what the teachers call "Disney" way, but looking at how animals actually move and seeing what that brings out in us. For the first week we simply moved like the animals, but in the second week we've been putting them in human situations, which is really fun. Some examples:

-A chicken daughter introduces her parents to her new boyfriend, who happens to be a vulture.

-A bad-techno club is inhabited by a gecko DJ, a spider bartender, a Komodo dragon bouncer, and lots of partying ants.

-Two walruses dance together at a high-school party.

Needless to say, there's a lot of hilarity that ensues. It's also been fun finding out what "our" animals are: my current theory is that I'm a mix of giraffe, ant, and red panda. Thoughts?

And then we move on to masks! I don't know yet exactly what we're doing, but it sounds like we'll be using our animal work to create characters, which should be awesome. And so life at LISPA continues, as awesome as ever!