Tuesday, November 24
VOICEWe decided everthing we're going to do for our Voice Showing tomorrow (which is supposed to be an open class). I have to look at "Lady with the Lapdog" again, since we finished that work in September... It seems like eons ago.MOVEMENTMovement Professor returned, and wanted to see what we learned in our 4 days of tap classes. She spent about 40 minutes choreographing a little tap routine that we may-or-may-not end up doing in our Movement Showing a week from Friday.After that, we moved onto our Contact Improv trios.ACTINGActing Professoressa says that the next step that we have to take with our monolo

Quotations: Volume 41
Here are some of the educational, inspirational, and humorous quotations from my classes this week:(Disclaimer: quotations are often taken out of context and may not accurately reflect the way they were originally intended)(in the sentence "The tumultuous news assumed the duke fought a duel in the nude", O.D. was trying so hard to work on his liquid-u that he put one in the word "fought", which made the whole class burst into laughter at the amazing-ness of his newly created word)"Everyone take your pronouncing dictionaries; change it."- Voice Professor"'Whoreson dog.' I want you to use that expression next t

Friday, November 20
VOICEWe spent the entire class working quietly on our transcriptions of the monologues from The Importance of Being Earnest. TAP WORKSHOPThanks to Dance Instructor, I think we're pretty solid on our Time Steps now.At the end of class, he let us do some Swing as a reward for a long week of Tap.ACTINGWe did an exercise where we each recited our sonnets to a partner while physically doing things to them.First Quatrain: Push partnerSecond Quatrain: Pull partnerThird Quatrain: Push partner to the floorCouplet: Help partner back upIt was actually really helpful in sepa

Thursday, November 19
VOICEWe recited texts after Paul Meier on his CD, trying to get all of the RP sounds.TAP WORKSHOPKEEP IN MIND: Today was Day 3 of our tap workshop. Most people in the class have never done tap before, so the fact that we're doing the things we're doing is really quite impressive.We did what Dance Instructor says is "what people will do at an audition when asked to do a Times Step." We had already learned singles, doubles, and triples. This one goes:Stamp; hop shuffle step; flap step(and then the next stamp comes RIGHT after the step... There's a beat between the stamp and the hop)We also started what Dance Instr

Wednesday, November 18
VOICERP (British dialect) is getting easier as we go. I was reciting old monologues of mine on break attempting to apply the dialect to it, and I thought I was doing pretty well, actually. Of course, I thought I was doing pretty well yesterday when people said I sounded Southern, so I might be way off base... But I think I'm getting the hang of it.We went through the rest of the "Signature Sounds" sentences from our book, trying to nail down the rules for the dialect that we've been learning...1. A lot of better writers print a lot of little words.(Focuses on keeping the "t" sound unvoiced, aspirated, released, and plosive... so basically, keeping