Mcgregors speech and choice of words were not dissimilar to that of Mark Hill, even if they don't say the exact same thing, for example Mark Hill talked of kinesthetic response, the motive response to an outside stimulus and Mcgregor had kinesthetic intelligence, the trust and awareness of your body when given the stimulus, so Mcgregor has an element of self awareness with the body's response. these two also seem to enjoy quick thinking and exquisite pressure especially an improvisational use of stimulus- no rehearsal, just do.using the body as an object or making shape with the body has similar versions to each other, Mark Hill wants the body to express emotion or an entity to progress a story while mcgregor uses the body to be the story and show a shape, not be the shape, what these two have in common is the communication through the body.

A word McGregor used was Mental architecture, literally the action of making a the stage have elements with our minds, like the game "the floor is lava" kids sometimes played when they were younger, the floor clearly isn't lava but people who watch the kids avoid the floor can sense that for the kids it is dangerous to touch the floor. this ties into Mark Hills stage architecture and using the physical stage to tell the story. This is also seen in lava game as the children use the furniture or other pieces of "set" to avoid it. these two ideas can work well in a way the we can use a piece or actual set to emphasize to the audience a piece of imaginary architecture that cannot actually be on stage or even exist, something i believe could be be better exploited in ice skating theatre. one instance i can ting for our lyso center stage, is using the rotating stage to symbolise a sortm or tornado or whirl pool.

Mark Hill

I'll start off just by saying that the mark hill experience was by far the best thing for such a large class. The excersizes and the dynamic of the teaching done screamed with teamwork and bonding. with a large class or even cast it is important to support and work together, which is something emphasized in the workshop. furthermore i feel so alive and fulfilled, it was a highly emotional experience for me and I appreciated it very much. as a second time being in the workshop i feel more satisfied with this one due to the amount of time we had to actually work with mark hill.
As a lesson i hope to never forget the skills taught in class about energy, focus shape and architecture to say some. i truly feel that many of these traits will serve well for the autumn play and for the IB play. during the workshop even i could see how we were already applying some of Mark hills rules for physical theatre already, such as the use of Robb hall's backstage and making the stage longer and more subway like.
as a final part i will write the observations i made about all the individuals in the final proformance

sabrina: wonder and pensiveness - a deathly realisation
wally: blank and denial- acceptance of pain
reca: determination and anger - defeat and exhaustion
austin: fear and horror - tired and sore
christian: lust and wanting - rejection and loss
kevin: confusion and bewilderment - queasy disgust
sarah: pain and sorrow - death

i felt these words as i looked at each persons movement and facial expression

I know that this blog is late but now I have seen the Pina Baush movie and as such have a little more to talk about in regards to theatre.

In Mark Hill's session we mainly focused on growing as a group and developing our "VIOLENCE OF ARTICULATION" but the articulation, I felt, wasn't so much articulated. I believe this is due to the fact that something more important was happening, we were growing closer as a class. This is more important due to the fact we need to as a class work well together, and to achieve that we must learn more about each other, which is exactly what we did in the Friday session.

Now for Pina, I can't say much in fear of ruining some parts of the movie, but what I can say is that i have rarely seen dance, or even theatre so expressive without the use of words.