Magenia Mouche

If you do not parle francais, you do not know what these words mean...and even if you do parle francais, you might not.  Mouche means fly - bzz bzzz, slurp, bzzz, slap! 
Magenia, however, is not a french word.  It means "dream" in Polish.  This semester I am attending le Studio Magenia, run by and taught by Ella Jaroszewicz.  Above you see the stairs leading to the miming studio.  I am blogging, today, about my performance of La Mouche.

Currently, we are exploring mime and 'le theatre corporel' by studying the way animals move and act.  This week we worked on the fly and the ant.
The fly is innocent - it buzzes around, trying only to eat and live its life.  And yet it encounters cruelty at every turn.  We were given 20 mins to discover our "mouche" before each performing in turn for the class.

My mouche:  I start off as a fly, in search for food.  I find some and eat so much that i topple onto my back.  My stomach contracts as hunger starts knawing again.  I buzz around and see something delicious. Transition to slow/sexy woman, preparing her coffee - she picks up a glass, pours her coffee, inhales.  Transition back to la mouche, who decides to land on the glass's edge before diving in to the delicious beverage.  She swims, slurping a little here and there, thoroughly enjoying herself.  Woman now sticks a straw in the glass and stirs vigorously - Mouche is startled and buzzes helplessly before being stirred deep into the muck, up into the straw, and finally dying of suffocation.

Feedback: Shift your body weight towards most important object (towards the full pot of coffee, not towards empty glass).  Make sure the fly and the human move in completely different ways (for example, the fly buzzes quickly, frantically, while the woman undulates slowly).  Take more time on the death of the fly - let it be both horrific and delicate.