Week 6 – performing animal characters

Today was the final session with the children. Over the 6 sessions, we have been focussing on creating sounds and music in order to develop small performance pieces.

In doing that, we have spent time making images, instruments and various items in order to stimulate sound-making and lyric creation for songs. We have also used these methods to come up with ways to use our bodies in performance and created actions for characters. Continuing to work with the theme of Hotland animals, we focussed on some more animals today: the cheetah, the tarantula, the parrot and the hyena. Quite a variety of animals! And lots of interesting images, sounds and actions produced.

In the second part of the session, we talked more about performance and the importance of a costume to help the performer ‘become’ the character they are playing. We focussed on making masks to help us become the characters and the children worked on their chosen animal. What a variety there was: anacondas, rhinos, tigers, elephants….The children created beautiful masks and wore them for a final Animal Flashmob. The rules of today’s Flashmob were more general and we tried to work with actions that all animals do, such as take a drink or make a sound. As it was raining, the children went into the school hall and performed their Flashmob.

So, it’s been a busy number of weeks: making instruments, listening to new sounds, composing lyrics and performing songs. And even more exciting: creating new Flashmob ideas and performing them!

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