"It Has To Be Personal"

We have Claude back for Movement, and we've set up the room to do silks/tissue work everyday. It's really hard (you need a lot of strength) but lots of fun. Getting there slowly. Hopefully at the end of the workshop I'll be as good as this guy:

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We started today by coming out on stage as a posh snob. I went out and rambled on about poor people. "Is it subtle, or the opposite of subtle?" Sophia was fantastic. She knows the British stereotype so well. I went again at the end and tried out an idea (uh oh) I had. I started by shouting from offstage "No Mummy I don't want to" and had a little argument with Mum before being 'pushed' out on to the stage, and then I pretended the audience were a room full of poor immigrant kids and did an awkward lesson in polite conduct (shaking hands etc). "He has a good fun - but is he a snob, or gay?"


Then we played a Sommelier with 'Fred Astaire tendencies'. 



We had to be solemn and serious (we could  also play a funeral director) with a deep voice and big pauses - but then at times break out into fantastic dance - and then back to  s e r i o u s.



I had fun again - being more playful and not caring so much. "Yeah, you could do Vladimir."

Then Philippe briefly got Tim to have his face painted white and a rope tied around his neck, and then got Ric to hold the rope, and kick Tim in the butt. A potential Pozzo & Lucky from Waiting for Godot. "Ric and Tim - they could be good."

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Then Sophia shared a story from her life:"This show in a car...Fantastic." And Tim did as well - a big epic story spanning a long time and travelling all over Australia.

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"It has to be personal."


"I can't imagine without a detail...so important."

"I hate people that say 'maybe'. Either you say 'yes' or you say 'no', but 'maybe' doesn't mean anything."