year 13 Growoski lesson plan ( for structured records)

Aims & objectives
A01i Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which playwrights, directors, designers and performers use the medium of drama to create theatre and are affected by social, cultural and historical influences.
A01ii Evaluate the effectiveness of the ways in which playwrights, directors, designers and performers use the medium of drama to communicate their ideas to an audience demonstrating knowledge and understanding of social, cultural and historical contexts
A02i Interpret plays and ideas using the medium of drama in a sophisticated way and justify any artistic decisions from the standpoint of an informed playwright, director, performer and/or designer
A02ii Communicate ideas, feelings and/or meaning to an audience making effective use of performing and/or design skills in response to a scripted play.
A03ii Communicate ideas, feelings and/or meaning to an audience making effective use of performing and/or design skills within the context of both devised and scripted work.

Planned structure / activity
Warm up
Grotowski warm up exercises from Towards a poor theatre

Rhythmical walking while the hands and arms rotate/ running on tiptoe
Flight weightlessness. Walk with knees bent, hand on hips.
Walk with knees bent gripping the ankles. Walk with knees bent, hands touching the outside edges of the feet/ holding the toes with one’s fingers. Walk with legs rigid as though pulled by imaginary strings.
Start in curled up position/take small short jumps forward/ land in same position with hands by feet.

Metal band
Imagine a metal band around the chest. Stretch it by means of vigorous expansion of trunk Take a lying position and then roll vigorously left and then right across the floor./ jumps like a kangaroo.
Sit on the floor and bring head to the knees.

These exercises warm up the body and allow the student to explore their movement capability.

Hand exercise
Touch/skim/feel/caress various objects
Then the whole body expresses these tactile sensations.

Oppositions of the body
One part of the body opposes the other - upper opposes the lower part of the body. A hand versus a leg. Use adjectives e.g. happy versus angry.


Unexpected movements
Do the opposite movement to that which you had intended – direction changed after a brief moment of immobility.

Blossoming/ withering of the body.
Slowly grow with confidence towards the sun and then wither back, then blossom again.

Emotional impulse of a body part- e.g. Shoulder cries like a face, e.g. a greedy knee.

Arbitary Cycle
To embrace
To take
To take for oneself
To possess
To protect

Create a piece of movement that expresses that cycle in a group/individual
Add music; discuss the emotions and story that organically grow from this stimulus.

Open
Create a movement piece that encapsulates all of these exercises on the theme of open to same piece of music.

Present and evaluate work
RESOURCES USED
Growoski Towards a Poor Theatre
Music Terma
Ry Cooder

RECORDS, AMENDMENTS & EVALUATION