Leading With Our Noses?
On Friday, March 8 we had another fantastic session with Ms. Winston at the MACC. We first made new crumpled paper masks and then built on our growing drama knowledge and experience.
We first reviewed being in neutral – we are getting better at it! Then, Ms. Winston showed us how to become different characters by walking and leading with different parts of our bodies. We first led with our noses which made us feel like detectives. We became Santa Claus by leading with our bellies. Walking and leading with our toes made us into ballerinas and finally, leading with our chests filled us with confidence and pride. It was exciting to see the students transforming into all of these characters.
Once we had some understanding of being in character, Ms. Winston introduced “pedestrian” movement. We discussed the term pedestrian, or everyday. What is an everyday movement? After some thought, students came up with some good examples: texting on a smartphone, sneezing, yawning, waiting, looking at your watch. Ms. Winston then had the students practice walking while doing a pedestrian movement. The scene was great and very believeable!
As our session finale, Ms. Winston pulled out some chairs and created a SkyTrain car. Students were instructed to stay in their pedestrian characters and do what people who do not know each other on a SkyTrain would do. The resulting scene was amazing! It was like watching a real-life SkyTrain ride. The students are learning SO much from Ms. Winston.
Please enjoy our photos from the day!
- Leading with our noses
- Leading with our bellies
- Learning about pedestrian movements
- In character doing pedestrian movements
- Pedestrian movements
- Pedestrian movements
- Pedestrian movements – looks just like a regular street scene!
- Listening to Miss Maggie’s SkyTrain directions
- We’re strangers on the SkyTrain
- Looks like we’re really riding the SkyTrain!
- On the SkyTrain
- Another amazing session with Miss Maggie