Viewpoints 2

After giving up P.E at GCSE I never realised how much I would regret this decision when starting viewpoints at A2 Drama. There is the never ending urge from your body to give up and lay on the floor, especially as the summer weather decided to be kind for once. Viewpoints in a nutshell is all about silencing your voice, something easier said than done in a room full of Drama Students. Again we start with the series of yoga moves "Salutation to the Sun" always being told yoga was a "relaxing inner body experience" has taught me to not always believe what people say. The movements push your body to it's very maximums, and although amongst sweat, persistence and tears it helped to focus my mind and clear the thoughts or irrelevant things from my head.

As a group we also tried 12,6,4, a series of repetitive movements, being jumps, stops, and changes of direction, with the aim to bring the group together in a collaborative way, the first 4 times we failed miserably, but as the weeks passed it is very obvious to see the improvement that even if we say we can't, we can actually work together as a team if we focus our minds to it.

Then to make sure we were fully exhausted and couldn't move to full potential the next day, another exercise was introduced. At first this was simple enough, experimenting with a particular movement before it became boring and as drama students we felt the need to change the direction, tempo, or levels, however there is nothing simple about dragging your body slowly across the floor just because your attempt at regaining your breath and walking slowly backfired and you even eventually got bored of it. Overall though it helped us to see that on stage an audience can become bored of seeing you standing and walking slowly and that a piece of work will benefit much more from experimentation rather than familiarity.