Greek Chorus Workshop

Greek Chorus Workshop

In this workshop, we explored the techniques - shoal of fish and round-by-through. Shoal of fish is where a group travels collectively in a tight format. The sudden change of directions as a whole group is effective because the movement performed appears slicker and has more of a pace to it. Round-by-through is also group movement, in which you move the people you're working with, in order to get through the space yourself. The last technique was Blind-leadership where someone touches the back of your neck and guides you by putting pressure on the neck to go left or right and the person being leaded can either have their eyes closed or open

We applied the techniques above to a short fairy tale performance task. The task was to pick a fairytale and make it into a tragedy. My group chose Cinderella, we used the blind leadership to start with with Josh moving myself and Natalie into our places and I felt this worked quite well as it was almost narrating and setting the scene. The Shoal of fish technique was good to give our scene some pace. 
When doing our scene it created some comical moments as we changed the story of cinderella to be a tragic story and the ending was comical because we had Josh take off my shoe (slipper) and kill me with it, so by the use of props and the comical dragging the body off at the end created a comical scene. When looking at the techniques that we used the use of round-by-through worked quite well as we were narrating and positioning people at the same time so it was like narrating and putting people into position. A disadvantage of shoal of fish was that it was easy to lose the tight formation, I think it is a technique which needs to be practiced a lot to be  polished and perfected.

The way in which these techniques could work for Electra is to create and abstract look to the performance and create and interesting dynamic and would be interesting to work with when we have our performance space done in the round.


Here is the video link to the workshop:


Greek Chorus Workshop Video