Second Day at Dell’Arte Mask Workshop

Beginning with community rite - hold hands and step into circle

Exercise - pushing at a low level instead of standing up

Throwing the Ball - and Oompah/Vortex ball exercise

A variation of the Wooosh game only using clapping as base action

Then instead of moving into mask performance as we did yesterday, we went to mix plaster and pour our faces in positives so they could cure by the afternoon and we could squeeze in a neutral mask made of brown paper mache.  
     Notes:  
Pouring:  No. 1 casting plaster; apprx ratio 1:2 water to plaster
                  ”the hawaii mountain” pouring method of measuring 
                   pour from forehead into lower face
                   vibrate - slapping
                   holding carefully ( or in sand ) 
PaperBAG  Mache 
               vaseline positive surface - wet strips of brown paper bag - hand torn crunkled up
                 wall paper paste - layering  

Afternoon Mask Work:
               Finished paper plate entrances
               Did paper plates with a “group mask” entrance and a ‘bit’
               Did characters with entrances