It was very nice having a class one day after another.  There was a sort of nice continuity to the work we were doing.  Even though some students could not be there for class due to the up coming break some great work got done.  We ran an improv exercise that my faculty member calls “Bodies and Voices”, but I know as dubbing.  Two paris of students come up to the playing space, two students stand to the side while two others work physically in the space.  The two students on the side speak while the other two move, like a dubbed movie.  There were many great scenes that were done.  However there was a small snag, a couple posts ago I spoke about a student who performed a rather blue scene.  She repeated the same kind of scene this day, but unlike last week where my faculty member just let the scene happen she stopped the scene short.  She then went on to explain that while the improv games we work on can be funny, they also have some serious work involved in them and that the class should try to achieve the level of work.  I find this interesting, mostly because my faculty member tries to make clear that in this class we are working to get out of the paradigm of right and wrong, that we are just going to explore.  But in this scenario clearly shows that sometimes there is a wrong.  While my faculty member did not chastise the student or call her wrong, there was an air of incorrectness (what a strange phrase).  I have always wondered about this when it comes to my faculty advisor.  While my faculty member strives for there to be no right or wrong in the classroom I cannot help but feel this it is unreachable.  Sometimes students will be wrong, but finding a way to work with the mistake is more realistic then just saying that everything is right (or at least not wrong).

We then worked on final scenes and managed to get good work done.  Managed to help a couple scenes that were having some trouble and now folks appear to be back on track.