The first step of this exercise was to find a space in the
studio and stand with your eyes closed.
Then music was played, in this case it was very loud, and in your face,
the objective of this exercise was to simply let your body free, and just move
either to the music or to what it wanted to do in general.
A few people, including myself at the start, found this exercise fairly tough. I found that you think too much about your movements, and what they might look like from the outside, but because everyone’s eyes were closed, this exercise really taught me that you can just do what comes naturally to you and take a lot from it as stimulus for a performance.
I really liked this exercise. After the first few minutes I really began to understand the point of the exercise and become fully immersed in my bodies movements. After a little while I found that I was sat down and swaying, as this is what my body was doing, not what i was thinking about, I made a mental note of this but didn’t think about it too much so as not to disrupt my performance. When the music ended, we spoke about how long the exercise went on for. As we were fully immersed in the exercise many people, got the time wrong, saying it was much too short or too long, it was actually 25 minutes, this was very odd as to me it seemed much shorter.
The exercise gave many people new ideas, about timing, and natural human movements, but to me it simply refined my acting ability further by putting restraint around what I was allowed to do. I was not allowed to open my eyes, at the beginning this was very odd, but as the exercise progressed it almost built up a trust bond between cast members, as everyone had the same restraints, but soe people reacted differently than others.
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