Sweet Taboo rehearsals DAY ONE
Sun shining, breeze blowing, and at 10am in the talawa studios everyone sat round the table eating fruits and talking about a number of different things. Silent excitement buzzed throughout the room as we awaited our "formal" start to TYPT.
The day began with us sitting with the TYPT crew and general introductions to what we are going to be doing over the next few weeks. Mojisola (our director) began by expressing how important it was for us to understand that the theatre we make needs to leave the audience thinking and evoke a number of different reactions/emotions from them. Moji is all about making ground-breaking theatre and we're all behind her!
Once the formal introductions were out of the way, we started the physical side of things. The lovely coral led a warm up, which included some stretching and planking (I was definitely not doing it right, but by the end of TYPT I know coral will make me a planking queen! Lol)
We then went on to do movement/dancing to music, and used a routine we had previously learnt but also incorporated emotion into some of those movements and observed what story lines where being created from that. We also focused on infatuation with body, parts but not necessarily the "obvious choices"...lets just say there was alot of elbow admiration going on today! Haha!
Towards the end of the day we watched some material about taboo and how what is considered taboo is ever-changing, so much interesting discussion came up and I can't wait to see and discuss more with my TYPT crew!
Overall it was an absolutely awesome day! Bring on tomorrow! :)
