iO Level Two – Week Seven

Short entry about this class – as it was mostly geared towards discussion of each other.

So due to some untimely circumstances – this ended up being our last class with Susan (she had to head back home for family matters) – who led to us shaking up the schedule a bit.

This class was all about celebrating ourselves as performers – so one at a time each of us went to sit up on stage while the rest of the class took turns telling us what they enjoyed about watching us and working with us on stage.
Susan of course added her two cents to the whole process – and then after the love fest – she gave each person a specific challenge in order to get them to play a character/energy/etc that was squarely outside their comfort zone – or at least far different than anything she’d seen them do as of yet (I was asked to play a James Bond type with a focus on his subtle sexiness and mystery).

It was an incredibly fun class, and a bit sad – as most of us will end up split up for the following levels at iO – and we will all miss Susan.