12/13: Annotated Citation Page
During today’s puppetry presentations, the subject turned to annotated source lists. First a reminder: your annotated bibliographies are due by Friday in class. For those of you who still have questions about what that document should look like, check out this example (you’ll need to be logged into your webmail to view it). Be warned ...
Using the Scenario in your Commedia workshop
Zach started us off with his research presentation on Physical Mise-en-scéne in Commedia. He covered the topic well as it relates to Commedia in general, but a reminder to everyone in the coming days: you must also relate your information to the assigned scenario. Staying with our metaphor—and, indeed, the reality of our situation—we need ...
Commedia and the RI
Today was the Commedia introduction, and I’m still sore. We went over Zanni movement—cribbing shamelessly from Antonio Fava—and ended with some basic lazzi. I introduced the basic Zanni walks. I got over-excited and introduced the batocio, but luckily no one was injured. Tomorrow we’ll bring in the masks and see how that adds to the ...
The RI, or how to pick a chair
Today was another day of split personality for me. While the year one students worked on their staging for the upcoming scenes from Betrayal, the Year Twos were in the green room with me talking about RI’s, PPP’s, IPP’s and a host of other letters. Right now, the primary concern for most of the students ...