I Am Curious Yellow
Drama school can be a little odd. Just watch Fame. Last year, during a particularly abstracted movement class, my wonderful teacher took us through the various colours of the rainbow. She’d shout one out and we would move accordingly, embodying the shade in whatever motions we saw fit. Blue, red, green, slowly we began to lose ourselves in the exercise, stretching like cats or undulating like charmed snakes; it’s amazing what a group of usually self-respecting twenty somethings will do when trapped in an unlit rehearsal studio. We come to yellow, incidentally my favourite colour, and as I’m in the middle of this particular hue, stretching my arms up to the sun and imploding like a daffodil, I hear a voice shout ‘No John! Yellow!!’
An amusing post from an interesting blog I just stumbled across by writer, actor and magician John Vanderput.