I took the Professional Opportunities on the 26th with a lady called Chloe Stephens. She is a respected actress, choreographer and teacher after studying at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and told us that she recently worked as Assistant Choreographer at Shakespeare's Globe theatre.
She told us the workshop she had planned wouldn't be 100% useful because it was more tailored towards the start of our Shakespeare process.
It was a workshop on characterization bringing an animal's qualities to our roles. Picking one particular animal to recreate the goddess was hard because I feel that character is complex in her physicality and her origins, so eventually i settle on one single aspect of Iris which I chose to be a swan, due to her power and high position over humans. I thought they are elegant yet strong and suited an element of Iris. It was interesting taking our physicalities from 100% animal 0% human, to about 40% animal 60% human because you really saw the colours of the characters coming through.
It was a good workshop but it wasn't fully appropriate to our stage in the Shakespeare process but oh well
( it also made a group of us late for rehearsal with Katie so no brownie points there!)
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