Hayley Izzard

Free Writing: Can't explain the words, but I was trying to write without thinking which was really hard. The colours are how I see these words. Lesson Picked 3 objects, put them together with other objects. Rearranged these objects in groups. Put all objects together, started changing around and manipulating the objects to make them into our massive art piece. Picked an object and explored all if its possibilities, the way it moved, the way it can be manipulated. Feedback At the start I was bored with just rearranging the objects. We found we ended up putting things in similar places and my attention span quickly faded. Although it is interesting to see how objects can look in different ways, and how they have endless possibilities on how to rearrange them. Creating our massive art piece was really interesting, loved it. When we focused on one object I was wrapping it around me, letting it float, even dancing alongside it. It has a million and ...

To start the session with practicing moving about with hands and feet firmly on the floor was a great help to me as I got to practice from the previous lesson. I'm definitely finding it's coming more natural to me now. Then we explored with levels, which I'd never really explored indepth before. I always think with 'levels' that it's from upright to the ground, and then to the floor. It's easy to forget that there's so much space inbetween the three. Admittedly, I prefer either upright or the floor, which are the two extremes. They are my comfort zones. This is because I have a long back and the inbetween levels makes it feel awkward and I couldn't stay in these inbetween levels for long. We started at Level 1 (upright) progressing through to Level 10 with hands touching the floor and through to Level 20(on the floor). I found at first that I was moving down more rapidly than I should have and somtimes moving slower than I should have. When movi...

Learning about Neutral Mask was valuable for me, as I've been intrigued about it since the start of the year, of what it is. It's a training tool for actors, developed by Jacque Copeau. He was a frenchman who wanted to develop readiness for the actors on stage, this involved training the actors to 'neutral act'. Jacque Copeau http://www.landrucimetieres.fr/spip/spip.php?article1403  To do this, there are two masks: a male mask and a female mask. Between the two you can see the massive differences between the female and male facial components.It's similar to normal maskwork as the mask requires you to cut out old habits that you've developed such as, fidgeting or touching your hair/touching your face. If you touch the mask, it stops the illusion of the mask being an actual being. The type of exercises Copeau used to practise with his students were developing the art of neutral acting. For example, an exercise we did were 3 people had to 'don' th...

Working with Suzanna Recchia for a full day was brilliant. In IPP1, she got us to explore the space, filling the space that someone else leaves, working silently in unison with one another as we interact with each other. One thing in the session stuck out in my head as being a really useful skill for the future and that's to recall a memory that comes to your head instinctively. Just to write 4 thoughts, emotions, feelings or any imagery that comes to mind about that memory, and then to turn that stimulus into a short piece of a few moves. Here were my words about a memory of going on hoilday to greece and we went to a water park. I wasn't a big fan of rides and I remember feeling awkward, while tom is on the 'black hole' ride.. and I'm standing there watching him from the viewing platform. Surreal, looked fun though!

Following a while back with my stimulus I had for that 'transformation' tree I liked so much in a performance I saw, I've decided to use it as the theme for my piece, the theme of 'transformation', that's what I've named it. I've also used it to have as scenery. I originally thought I want my piece to be site specific in a woodland area surrounded by trees and leaves on the floor, but then I thought how interesting it would be to bring that to the stage, and make it so it's deliberately fake with cut out shaped trees and leaves on the ground, quite an abstract effect. In the studio today I worked on a sequence of moves I could potentially put in for my project. It's the technique that Glenn showed us in one IPP1 class. To think of some adjectives and make it into one continuing static phrase. I want to put some of these moves of these vids to my dance piece of 'Transformation' somewhere. I'm also debating whether to say the words ...

Task 1: Learning about the Arthrometric model was interesting for me, I tended to notice what movement was coming from my hips and shoulders in the central zone. When running around the room, I was practising articulating my feet (using my metatarsals, hinge joint) and the gliding joints in my feet. I find that knowing the terminology for different parts of your body helps to image them when moving. I didn't fully know what to notice or understand the purpose. Learning about the radial symmetry was informative, ie; elbows and knees are biaxial, cannot alter direction but can offer full range in movement, and the joints from the knees to the ankles are triaxial, as are joints from elbow to hand. It's quite complicated and would take a few physical exercises of exploration, to fully grasp . The Arthrometric Model Source: Andrea Olsen -  Body Stories Task 2: It was interesting to learn about the ribs because I didn't know much about the anatomy of how the rib...

In Improvisation with Amy, I find that I shock myself with how creative I can be with what I write without thinking. Here are a few verses that I've wrote over 2 sessions in my artist journal: "When I am part of a group, I feel the freedom to create what I want, it's a pleasure to work with others. We dance together, it works. We create together, it works. I like to share the spotlight, aswell as to have it." "A constellation of dance can be in all shapes; horizontal, vertical, sideways. Shapes - hearts, stars, squares, triangles, ovals. Patterns in the floor Patterns in the air Group patterns are so effective, working closely together." "Between people there is a natural bond, used through dance and real life. There is a deep connection expressed practically and silently, working in harmony, working as one. Broken bonds are with people who struggle to let go, struggle to breathe, struggle to see."

In experiental anatomy, we focused on moving through the floor through the hands and feet. We had a score of just moving across the floor in one direction, starting to move standing and gradually working your way to the floor and with this, I decided as a personal goal to focus on keeping my feet and my hands particularly grounded. It is an awful habit of mine to overbend on the pads of my hands and cause unnecessary tension in my wrists, which always leaves my wrists aching afterwards. http://www.footelastic.com/index.php?p=1_13_Your-Feet-Are-Miracle-Of-Nature I found that I like to move rapidly across the floor but actually, whilst slowing down I got all the benefit out of it, as the slower I went on my own, the more fluid and diverse my movements were across the floor. We then carried this score out in partners and, again, this made all the difference in the fact that the self consciousness of what I was doing went completely out of my head and i...