On the 15th of January my group and I took part in a exercise called 'Mind of body' We had to spread yourself across the room close are eyes and just listen to the music. During the mind over body exercise I felt like I was in another world where my mind had no control over my body It felt very surreal as if i was in a dream like situation. When you become one with the music my arms and legs began to feel heavy which led to me tumbling all over the place. My body movements reminds me of being extremely drunk and nothing feels real. I found it quite interesting that by closing your eyes and listening to music it can transport you to another world.
Some people responded differently meaning that they let lose and let the music take them over or some people found it annoying at ended up on the floor covering their ears as if they are in pain. Also some people began to worry if everyone was watching them so they wasn't able to fully let go of the mind and do what the body wants to do meaning they was not able to fully experience the 'Mind over body' exercise which is a shame as in my eyes I enjoyed that exercise a lot.
When the music stopped we was asked how long do you think we had been moving for some people said 8mins others said half an hour personally I felt that we had been dancing for maybe 15mins either way long or short I really enjoyed the exercise.
This exercise links to Artaud because he believed that theatre should affect the audience as much as possible where he would use a mixture of strange sounds lighting and other performance skills therefore if an audience saw this exercise they would feel very strange and maybe even become entranced by the music and there subconsciousness will make them join in with our movements.
I think that this movement section should be put into our final piece because it would be interesting to see the audiences response to it maybe transport them to another world or place as during this exercise time is forgotten about.
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