The clown block has come to a close, I've had a week off to
decompress while working a forty hour work week. And the year is nearly at an
end. What a year it has been. I can't help but think reflectively and
comprehensively at everything I've learned this year as our final projects now
stand before us. I'm working with two extraordinary women and diving back into clown. COULDN'T be more thrilled about that.
The exploration of clown really did draw from all three
previous units. The first ten weeks were so much full of getting in touch with
my body and the way it moves in space, and how it can be used as a tool to
reflect the space that is the earth. It was in many ways also a process of
destruction. In order to grow a garden, the ground must be tilled. I was both uprooted during those first ten weeks and replanted.
The next block
of commedia brought me face to face with my body and comedy in a very fundamental way. My face was covered with a
mask and I was forced to use my body to channel and transmit a character. I
tripped onto this character so adoringly called Squirm, taking advantage of my skills of funk and lack of skills in coordination.
I learned a lot during this time, namely the need to remain buoyant, in the
face of any form of theater. I also began to understand the way listening to the line of force offers the chance to have the story tell you --getting out of the way. This lesson was brought home in a
big way during melodrama. Buoyancy and line of force have remained ever present
lessons during this clown exploration and added to that have been another
mountain of lessons namely it has been listening. Listening to the logic of
the character and to the other characters in the piece of theater. Listening so
deeply and holding myself so accountable for this listening that it allows the
character to pay attention to the consequences. These three lessons
of buoyancy line of force, and listening rise to the surface as
central to my studies here at Dell'Arte.
As I move
forward into my final project I feel my last frontier is to explore THE VOLUME OF TIME AND SPACE....both within and outside of my body. It is a note I continue to receive and one that continues to elude me.
Off we go.
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