Movement 1

How did you find silent improvisation?

I really enjoyed it, especially in the moments when we were completely in complicity and moving perfectly with the music. Watching over the video you can see how well it worked, and I'd love to work with physical theatre more. We managed to portray the theme of the sea really well as a class with absolutely no dialogue or drama, and I'd like to practise with this exercise a bit more if I get the chance to. 

Another thing that was fun was when we did a silent warm up in class. Claire simply began to warm up silently and used signals to tell us what to do. It was really fun and unlike anything we'd done so far in the year, which was refreshing, and since we had to work silently it really helped the class begin to focus and work together as a group.

How can you use it in devised work?

At the minute I think the intention is to have a movement piece involving the entire group at the end of the performance, which will be really fun. In regards to the silent warm up I think it would be good for our group, since sometimes it's easy to get caught up in discussion of the devising and end up not doing much work, however if we do a silent warm up straight away then we'll get into the mood for working and we can go straight into devising and improvisation with no chance to "block" ourselves.