Tuesday 3rd May notes

 We started today’s rehearsal with our usual side stretch warm up. I found this useful today as i wasn’t feeling particularly energised but after the warm up I felt much better and in a better place to rehearse.

 We started out the rehearsal  by going  through the physical parts of the play, such as the Hakka and the love dance, the cast also ran the second Hakka however I am not in this so I dint have to worry about this. I feel as though the cast is more committed to the Hakka now than we originally were, as a group we have become quite close so there isn’t really and tension or embarrassment between us that there may have been at the beginning of rehearsals. During the Hakka I know that I do look at people and am not very confident however I am slowly getting more confident, I found it hard to remember the moves for it but after practicing a lot I have finally got the hang of it. We looked at making the love dance more celebratory because at the moment it looks quite dead, we livened up by listening to modern music then kept this in our heads when the actual drum beat was playing . I feel like we’ve defiantly improved and i think it’s now just about  remembering to connect with my partner.

After a break we came back and went straight into a run of the show, the run was quite slow and sloppy and it feels like people still don’t know what they are doing. There as a lot of mistakes made and the running time ended up being over two hours which isn’t good enough as the time we have to run the play in the theatre is only round an hour and a half maximum.

The notes we were given at the end of the run for the ensemble were about Hakka feet, when we are doing the Hakka and stomping our feet people are just doing random stomping, i personally know i am someone who does this as i get too carried away and forget about the way my feet are moving however i am going to try and focus on this next time we do the Hakka.

The only note I was given was about coming up earlier into the scene after the love dance and making sure me and Chiron are squabbling.