Fisher's

This exercise was based around choral movement and again bringing us closer as an ensemble company of actors. It was a very effective in making a simple movement come alive using a whole group of people. It embodies a follower the leader but much more interesting. As well as other exercises it utilises our peripheral vision and something I like to call "hidden vision" which basically means keeping an eye out on someone near to you but making it not even a little bit  obvious to the audience at all and copying their movements which is very effective giving the illusion we are all 100% in sync with each other!

We started off by getting into a clump in height order so we had a better chance of seeing each other through out peripheral vision making the exercise more effective, we adopted the behaviour of a school of fish and as "the leader" began a slow simple movement the rest of the class followed refraining from looking directly at the leader and instead using other means to figure out what the movement was. We made sure to start off slow so that everyone could follow along because if we sped up to quickly we were assured to make mistakes. As the exercise continued the leader started to use all the extremities of their body and using each direction to it's full potential.

After we had achieved full fish like sentience we then moved onto changing the direction of the entire group and changing over the baton to a new leader to create more movements but facing a new wall. This created a new challenge for each individual within the games as they had to adapt who they were looking at to copy from. We had to all silently agree on who was leading the entire group on this new side whilst simultaneously copying the movements of the last person. We really had to focus on many different things within this exercise whilst making it seem like were all one. This could help to improve on our transitions and the seamless flow that this play so expertly creates.