We are now rehearsing a traditional Indonesian song that will open our show.
The song goes as follow:
"I'm standing at the edge of the day
Wondering of the change of seasons
I see everybody leaving in a hurry
Here I'm standing alone, keep on waiting
Waiting for the golden age to come
Happiness for the whole world
From time to time I keep on praying
Amongst the sorrow of Manking
I'll finish my sorrow without tears"
Saturday, 6 February 2010
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Day 1 and 2
Day 1
Day one started of early. we all woke afresh and had to leve the apartment by 9. we travelled to the school to get our first glimpse of our future workplace for the next two weeks the whole group was really excited to be working in such a beautiful place. and to be encouraged by the local spirit of all the students. the thatre in which we are to perform is is amazing the main stage is extremely big, and even the supporting rooms such as the wallace stage are big in their own respect. after we had our tour of the theatre and had lunch we organized and planned workshops for the week and even ran one the main subjects we focused on was onsamble work, how to bond within a group it went really well. after our firsty worokshop we finally met with the British international school (bis) group who would be our main chorous. they are really friendly and approacable. they warmed to phakama really quickly and were up for almost anything. we spent time in that workshop designers gaurdians that were personal and what we considered a gaurdian to be. there was some really good images on display most people opting for the mythology type gargoyle. we then finished on a high with a game. after this workshop we went to go visit the free school whitch is founded and funded by BIS this was really good and a touching experiance the classroom was just situated on a piece of land and the classroom was about as big as a caravan but they just made it work ! :D we proceeded to meet with aji and his group of young people ( theatre tetas) they were really pleased to see us and us them, there rehearsal space was outside in the open and was a old boxing ring! none the less we still had fun and made some progress with productive work based around on what both groups had been previously rehearsing. the group of young people are really kind and nice. we finished the session at about 11:10 and then made our way back to the accommodation most people to tired to stand, goodnight...
Day 2
day 2 started afresh with everyone all awake and alive and kicking, we was all looking forward to breaking of into groups and vidting different sites 4 young people went to go visit the free school (jake, regis,jenny,salwa) and 4 went to go visit the scavanger site which was a site full of rubbish and people living there made a living by collecting rubbish and sorting it for the local truck to come and pick it up to recycle it. both groups said that this experiance was really good and they felt good after, a real rewarding experiance for bioth parties and the people at both sites were pleased that outsiders had come to see them. so after this we left with a friendly goodbye and made our way back to the BIS school in order to have lunch and get ready for our workshop. we arrived at the BIS school and ate lunch planned the workshop and then got ready. the BIS students arrived and was ready to work, we progressed our work with the gaurdians in which we designed the day before. we then had to talk about their qualities and choose a single one and then create a still image in what we think these emotions represent. then we moved on to stage 2 and added movement and sound finally stage 3 which resulted in leading the whole group in from outside and putting on what we had done in our small groups of 5. it went really well and the group felt spectacular. were now getting ready to go meet adji and work on some more scenes with the group.
on behalf of the phakama company
Jake Boston.
Day one started of early. we all woke afresh and had to leve the apartment by 9. we travelled to the school to get our first glimpse of our future workplace for the next two weeks the whole group was really excited to be working in such a beautiful place. and to be encouraged by the local spirit of all the students. the thatre in which we are to perform is is amazing the main stage is extremely big, and even the supporting rooms such as the wallace stage are big in their own respect. after we had our tour of the theatre and had lunch we organized and planned workshops for the week and even ran one the main subjects we focused on was onsamble work, how to bond within a group it went really well. after our firsty worokshop we finally met with the British international school (bis) group who would be our main chorous. they are really friendly and approacable. they warmed to phakama really quickly and were up for almost anything. we spent time in that workshop designers gaurdians that were personal and what we considered a gaurdian to be. there was some really good images on display most people opting for the mythology type gargoyle. we then finished on a high with a game. after this workshop we went to go visit the free school whitch is founded and funded by BIS this was really good and a touching experiance the classroom was just situated on a piece of land and the classroom was about as big as a caravan but they just made it work ! :D we proceeded to meet with aji and his group of young people ( theatre tetas) they were really pleased to see us and us them, there rehearsal space was outside in the open and was a old boxing ring! none the less we still had fun and made some progress with productive work based around on what both groups had been previously rehearsing. the group of young people are really kind and nice. we finished the session at about 11:10 and then made our way back to the accommodation most people to tired to stand, goodnight...
Day 2
day 2 started afresh with everyone all awake and alive and kicking, we was all looking forward to breaking of into groups and vidting different sites 4 young people went to go visit the free school (jake, regis,jenny,salwa) and 4 went to go visit the scavanger site which was a site full of rubbish and people living there made a living by collecting rubbish and sorting it for the local truck to come and pick it up to recycle it. both groups said that this experiance was really good and they felt good after, a real rewarding experiance for bioth parties and the people at both sites were pleased that outsiders had come to see them. so after this we left with a friendly goodbye and made our way back to the BIS school in order to have lunch and get ready for our workshop. we arrived at the BIS school and ate lunch planned the workshop and then got ready. the BIS students arrived and was ready to work, we progressed our work with the gaurdians in which we designed the day before. we then had to talk about their qualities and choose a single one and then create a still image in what we think these emotions represent. then we moved on to stage 2 and added movement and sound finally stage 3 which resulted in leading the whole group in from outside and putting on what we had done in our small groups of 5. it went really well and the group felt spectacular. were now getting ready to go meet adji and work on some more scenes with the group.
on behalf of the phakama company
Jake Boston.
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