The first session of the workshop was called, "Explorations", where we carried out several warm-ups, both physical and mental ones. This was crucial in preparing us for Part B of the workshop.

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SEAN FITZJOHN

Drama Portfolio

PAPER 1 UNIT 2 WORKSHOP

PART A

The first session of the workshop was called, "Explorations", where we carried out several warm-ups, both physical and mental ones. This was crucial in preparing us for Part B of the workshop.

We started by doing numerous body and vocal exercises. Light stretches and spine rolls were done to help us loosen our whole body from head to toe. We then moved on to reading tongue-twister lines and basic sounds such as "aaa, eee, ooo". This was done to help us pronounce, articulate and enable us to speak with reasonable clarity and tone. Being able to project our voice to the audience is essential, and this exercise helped us to be aware of this in our Greek performance

Our next warm-up was an exercise called "Balancing The Stage". The idea of this was for two (or more) people to walk in an imaginary square platform which is balanced on a pivot in the centre. In order for the "stage" to be balanced, the actors must walk in a way that the "stage" is balanced on each side. This exercise helped us to notice and