Hayley Izzard

'The traces left behind' - Fiona Jackson  A movement exploration looking into the different ways we imprint ourselves onto our surroundings in our day-today lives. I really liked this piece as I was fascinated with the collages in the gallery space of handprints smudged across the pages on the wall, seeing all the the delicate markings of the feet. On one of them there was a 'Start' and 'Finish' where she'd journeyed across the paper, and seeing the comparisons of the traces. The feel of the piece reminded me very much like it was an art exhibition. As I was witnessing Fiona drawing circular patterns with chalk, I saw in the process her foot went through the chalk line and the chalk scattered far over the page, which was interesting. A phrase stood out to me,'The movement is fleeting, the marks remain'. This phrase interests me as it says to me even though as humans were constantly progressing, travelling, moving forwards with our lives, ther...

Ive said about the Arthrometric model in another post but the lesson plan we had today was putting the model into practice I think. We had to work in trios, and experience aswell as giving, with the rocking exercises, gripping the legs, arms and torso area. To Give: When rocking Katie and Janiece the momentums of the rocking were so different. Janiece had a slow and steady pace, whereas katies rocked quite fast, especially when her legs were involved. When the legs were involved on both of them, I noticed the partnership of the other person on the other side would quickly become out of sync, and we had to work together to stop the receiver feeling disjointed. I noticed that katie struggled to let go of weight, especially with the exercise of letting Janiece and I move her muscles, but I think we all struggled with this area. It was either weight was given in the leg or in the arm, never both at the same time. I think Janiece was the best out of all of us in giving weight, you coul...

I'd never been to, or experienced a production of a physical theatre nature before. In a way, Frantic Assembly could be interpreted as a Dance Theatre Company also, as there were some combined techniques in the performance, for example; some beautiful contact improvisation mixed with weight giving back and forth, simple exercises such as trust exercises and also continuing that fluidity of movement when in awkward positions such as giving your full weight in lifts. It was brilliant how they combined 'natural Stanislavskian acting', although slightly exaggerated, with little bursts of contact improvisation. They 'broke the fourth wall' when talking to the audience at the start, almost involving us as though we weren't an audience and we were taken along on the experience with them. There were points where I struggled to follow but then came to the conclusion that pieces are meant to be interpreted however you wish, there's no right or wrong answer, and so...

Walking rolls, lunges and roll downs Practicing walking round the room and rolling into lunges, and roll downs, travelling in different ways has progressed since the start of term. At the start, I never had the confidence and felt self conscious to just roll on the floor and roll down infront of people, which sounds silly but I felt intimidated by others potential. Over the past few weeks in doing this exercise I have opened up loads being able to link lunges, roll downs and rolls into the floor. A sense of it is just not caring about what others think and just focusing on yourself. Roll downs I've learnt that there's loads to consider in roll downs, more than you'd actually think. I think, at the start, I was just letting my body do the action instead of really letting go, for example, letting go of my head has been a task for me. In andrea's technique Ive worked on this and I feel that I really let the head go now, but ive also learnt that imagining how your sp...

Feedback from Routine: (Abby and Emma) They could tell I knew what i was doing, fluidity was good. Although, it could be even tighter. Watch out when turning direction, as i tend to move my pelvis to get to the right direction still. MUST PRACTICE THIS. I wasn't rushing through the sequence but the momentum i had was leading me through it, and the fluidity of that comes hand in hand. I was elated about this feedback, simply because in past weeks confidence has been a massive issue for me. Today, I started to feel like a dancer rather than someone wanting to be one, and getting myself into that mindset proves to be very positive.