Strengths
- visualization
- movement
Experiences
- on stage as a main character as well as ensemble
Interests
- backstage tech
What do you need
- people with strengths different then mine so I can learn more
Stimulus Ideas
- pretty ugly poem
- art
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
ISTA reflection due -- 500 words -- post on your blog: What were the most memorable experiences you had and what did you learn?
While at ISTA, I learned many things. In my ensemble, we worked on pick up scenes. I found this to be very interesting. Seeing peoples different interpretations of the same 30 words really inspired me. I also loved having the opportunity to work with different people. There were people from all over there world in my ensemble. Having these different outlooks really allowed for a lot of creativity in the shows. Also, in my ensemble, we worked on this really interesting exercise for stimulus. We each picked old postcards that spoke to us and spent 10 minutes just looking at the illustration on the front. My postcard had a beautiful drawing of a tiny red house with a black buggy outside and a horse in the field next to it. There were also lots of roads coming off the sides of the house, all going in different directions. I interpreted this as someone on a journey trying to figure out which path is the right one to choose. Each path was slightly different which I felt signified different strengths and weaknesses in each ambition. Turning this then into a 10 minute play was such a wonderful experience. The collaboration and detail oriented people in my group really created this incredible thing.
We also did master class with the tectonics and the Beijing opera. I thought both of these were super interesting. Personally, I liked the tectonics better. The concepts we covered in that class were much more interesting to me. The leader of the master class did this really cool thing where he asked all of us our favorite moment of theater we had ever seen and everyone came up with different moments. We eventually came to the realization that script in a show is one of the least important things. Everyones moments were all with lighting or movement or something else. I really liked this concept. Movement on stage is one of my favorite things so it was very validating to hear how important it is. In Beijing Opera, we did some work with sticks. Similar to color guard, we did some twirling and spinning with the sticks. I haven't done anything like that in like 5 years so it was super exciting to go back to it.
Finally, at ISTA I made so many new and incredible friends. Meeting people from all over the world including Colorado, Florida, Belgium, and many other places was absolutely amazing. I love meeting people who have the same interests as me so this as a wonderful experience.
While at ISTA, I learned many things. In my ensemble, we worked on pick up scenes. I found this to be very interesting. Seeing peoples different interpretations of the same 30 words really inspired me. I also loved having the opportunity to work with different people. There were people from all over there world in my ensemble. Having these different outlooks really allowed for a lot of creativity in the shows. Also, in my ensemble, we worked on this really interesting exercise for stimulus. We each picked old postcards that spoke to us and spent 10 minutes just looking at the illustration on the front. My postcard had a beautiful drawing of a tiny red house with a black buggy outside and a horse in the field next to it. There were also lots of roads coming off the sides of the house, all going in different directions. I interpreted this as someone on a journey trying to figure out which path is the right one to choose. Each path was slightly different which I felt signified different strengths and weaknesses in each ambition. Turning this then into a 10 minute play was such a wonderful experience. The collaboration and detail oriented people in my group really created this incredible thing.
We also did master class with the tectonics and the Beijing opera. I thought both of these were super interesting. Personally, I liked the tectonics better. The concepts we covered in that class were much more interesting to me. The leader of the master class did this really cool thing where he asked all of us our favorite moment of theater we had ever seen and everyone came up with different moments. We eventually came to the realization that script in a show is one of the least important things. Everyones moments were all with lighting or movement or something else. I really liked this concept. Movement on stage is one of my favorite things so it was very validating to hear how important it is. In Beijing Opera, we did some work with sticks. Similar to color guard, we did some twirling and spinning with the sticks. I haven't done anything like that in like 5 years so it was super exciting to go back to it.
Finally, at ISTA I made so many new and incredible friends. Meeting people from all over the world including Colorado, Florida, Belgium, and many other places was absolutely amazing. I love meeting people who have the same interests as me so this as a wonderful experience.
Monday, October 7, 2019
1. Blog post due BY CLASS TODAY -- write a reflection of what we did and class and what you got out of it. Think from the perspective of a performer but also a director. 500 words.
In class these past couple weeks, I learned so much about viewpoints. Before doing this class I had no idea what viewpoints were and how deep you could dive into one single movement. My favorite aspect of this whole experience was the layering of the process. The concept of starting with something so simple and adding bits and pieces to create something so amazing is absolutely incredible.
Starting with tempo and duration I thought that it was very similar to stuff that I had done before. The gridlines as well as speed were things I was familiar with and while it was nice to start in a comfortable place, I couldn't wait to start learning new things. We soon moved to kinesthetic response and spacial awareness. Both of these viewpoints I really liked. The slight addition of communication and a more physical awareness of your surroundings really changed my perspective. It allowed for me to acknowledge what others were doing with their bodies and react off of them. This also added flocking which I really enjoyed exploring. I had some really cool moments in open viewpoint where me and another student made alternate dimensional mirroring as well as unspoken conversations. These viewpoints were definitely some of my favorites.
We also worked on, topography, shape, gesture, and architecture. Topography really opened up a door for me. As a person who really likes to explore levels, topography helped a lot. I found that most of my movements changed drastically when brought up or down. Especially the emotion behind my movements. I also absolutely loved shape. Because I do aerial circus, exploring shape is something I do all the time except in the air. Moving all those shapes to the ground was super explorative and interesting. Furthering to add architecture was definitely difficult. I had a very hard time separating my movement from the physical objects. Overall, I really enjoyed viewpoints and I would to explore it more.
In class these past couple weeks, I learned so much about viewpoints. Before doing this class I had no idea what viewpoints were and how deep you could dive into one single movement. My favorite aspect of this whole experience was the layering of the process. The concept of starting with something so simple and adding bits and pieces to create something so amazing is absolutely incredible.
Starting with tempo and duration I thought that it was very similar to stuff that I had done before. The gridlines as well as speed were things I was familiar with and while it was nice to start in a comfortable place, I couldn't wait to start learning new things. We soon moved to kinesthetic response and spacial awareness. Both of these viewpoints I really liked. The slight addition of communication and a more physical awareness of your surroundings really changed my perspective. It allowed for me to acknowledge what others were doing with their bodies and react off of them. This also added flocking which I really enjoyed exploring. I had some really cool moments in open viewpoint where me and another student made alternate dimensional mirroring as well as unspoken conversations. These viewpoints were definitely some of my favorites.
We also worked on, topography, shape, gesture, and architecture. Topography really opened up a door for me. As a person who really likes to explore levels, topography helped a lot. I found that most of my movements changed drastically when brought up or down. Especially the emotion behind my movements. I also absolutely loved shape. Because I do aerial circus, exploring shape is something I do all the time except in the air. Moving all those shapes to the ground was super explorative and interesting. Furthering to add architecture was definitely difficult. I had a very hard time separating my movement from the physical objects. Overall, I really enjoyed viewpoints and I would to explore it more.
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