The physical training and performance

This week I realized that doing the physical training of Grotowski for Kenzo’s Extended Essay was really helping me in performance. As I practice my scene on Tuesday I started exploring my character and realize how the different exercises I have been doing for the physical training were very useful for founding the best way of the character to walk or to talk and how the movements will be. 

The concentration is an essential element for the training because if not all the energy is lost and the exercises aren’t being useful as the necessary focus and energy isn’t being put in by the actor. Concentration helps to develop more the activities and learn more. When I practiced my scene I could have more concentration and this helped me to memorize my lines.

As I continue with my research, I have been watching various videos and images of different masks and the Hagoromo play (the play in which I’m basing my research) I realize how important are convections in a play as all the audience understands it and sometimes knows about them. When I watched the Hagoromo video the first time I get different effects that when I saw and reed the script now as I am aware and realize the different convections used know that I have read more about the Noh Theatre.

Doing research makes you a kind of specialist on what your research is about. Know that I’m doing my research in Noh masks; I really know a lot about them and understand better the use of them in the Noh Plays. At the same time I also get to know not only about Noh masks but of Noh because of the books I’m reading for my research. Get to know different traditions opens your mind for new ideas which can be used later adapting them to the convections of the target audience for the play.  

So know that I have learned and realize these things this holy week I question my self… Is the physical training useful for noh theatre too? Can the things learned in this training be applied for any theatre tradition?