So today I'm not feeling too good, which provides the perfect excuse to stay home from school and write a blog post! Quite frankly, I'd rather be at school, but when my body forcefully orders me to lie down and watch movies for a day I figure I'd better listen.
So... what's been happening? This week was the last week of having improv classes: there's only 3 weeks left in the school year (what???????), so we're gearing up for our final projects. These include:
-An acrobatics presentation, both of a set routine (T-balance forward side roll step half-turn forward roll upward jump two linked cartwheels handstand forward roll full turn jump backward roll straddle backward roll to push-up position shoot through to lie neckspring forward roll jump half turn straddle up to handstand forward roll tuck jump... collapse), and of a free routine, which is fifteen acrobatics moves and fifteen moves of our choice: I'm going to do contact juggling for my fifteen free moves, and Jill is tentatively planning to do a clown version of my routine with a watermelon. It's amazing how much I've learned in acrobatics this year: it's as if all the gaps in my acrobatics knowledge have been filled! So exciting.
-A presentation of the 20 Movements, which are twenty mime-type movements that we've learned throughout the year: they're kind of like the 10 Commandments of LISPA, except there's 20 of them and they're more like the 20 Exhausting Exercises That Ask Unanswerable Questions. We have to string them together in whatever order we choose and present them alone in front of the whole class and all the teachers. Apparently we'll be focusing mainly on these in class from now on.
-A space lab project on "Passions": we choose one passion (love, hate, fear, lust, grief, etc.: I chose fear), and create a "portable structure" based on it, which means a structure that "doesn't like to be put down" and that is dynamic when picked up and carried around. "....huh?" is a perfectly acceptable reaction to this one, I'm not sure I get it either.
-A group observation, where in groups of 5-8 we observe real life places based around a theme and create a piece of theater based on our observeations. This is as specific as the assignment gets, which is terrifying of course. My group started with food as our theme, and yesterday we went to observe at the Billingsgate Fish Market at 7am. It was really amazing, lots of dead fish, live shell-fish and eels, styrofoam, wellies, and wet floors. We met a loquatious veteran fish trader named Roger who told us all about fish, cooking them, entertaining young ladies, the War, etc. etc. etc., and who offered to let us come work with his team for a night! We're actually going to take him up on it, so I'll hopefully be posting about my fishy night sometime next week.
Whew! And on top of that there's work, and travelling to plan. Oh, I haven't mentioned this yet: I'm going on an epic young-adult European tour this summer! The itinerary involves meeting Becky in Rome, thence to Venice, Salzburg, Munich to see Hilde, on through the south of France to Barcelona (by myself!), then on to Athens and from there to Crete to do a theater piece for one of my classmate's wedding, then back to Athens to see it for real, and back home to London. It's going to be quite the adventure, I really can't wait!
So that's life at the moment! Or rather, I'm looking forward to all this in the near future, but for now I'm going to make a cup of tea and watch The Full Monty on youtube. :)
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