Description:
This week we had an encounter with a rather unusual type of theater, Santiago, a member of our IB theater group, invited us to watch his stand up comedy performance at La estacion in Barranco. We were in for a very good surprise when we arrived because there were more than 30 friends there waiting to see this impressive performance.
The idea of this presentation was to close an intensive course o stand up comedy and santiago was basically the best of the presentation with a lot of sound in the form of claps and whistling.
Analysis:
What i enjoyed the most in the performance was the dynamic and highly rhythmical performance which made me think in what i really want to see and get when i go to watch theater. I enjoy very much when i get engaged and what better than having a comic presentation to get this characteristic of theater. I loved the way in which the audience including me was very patient and had a lot of positive energy about what was going on. I think that if we can portray all of this characteristics that make a performance of that type into our own theatrical presentations, we will be able to get the audience the entertainment they want.
Connections:
I got the same feeling as when i go to watch usual One act plays and i am already prepared to laugh and that is precisely what i do, this is what i want in a school performance, the predetermination to like it and the mind prepared to understand it whatever it is.
Reflection:
It is very difficult to transmit the feelings from a regular comic presentation to a more dramatic performance when the audience has to use more imagination and engage in a deeper type of thinking to get the idea, game and special characteristics of a Play.
domingo, 9 de diciembre de 2012
domingo, 2 de diciembre de 2012
The importance of the unexpected
Description:
The unexpected is
what might give a play a different appeal than others usually do. People like
surprises and sometimes we enjoy being ready for them but without really
knowing what is going to happen. The idea is that a play has to have something
to engage you with and if it is not a comedy then it cannot be only the text
and so usually the plays that lack in text use a lot of characterization or
other characteristics to get your attention. In this case we went to watch
"Desarraigos" from a Colombian theater group that had a very
clear characteristic it was very monotonous, very much like "lo mas
resistente", i felt almost the same feeling of knowing what is going
to happen next because as it was a very repetitive play then you almost got the
idea of what was coming.
Analysis
This of
course created a feeling of charged atmosphere that made me feel as if i was
watching something over and over again and it was obviously tedious.
The idea of a play
in terms of a business is to entertain the audience so that the money they
payed is well paid and then they tell other people to go and basically this is
the cycle. In this case it had a very important degree of scenery and 2 very
good actresses in terms of voice and stage presence but they seemed more of
singers than actual actors. I can say that this play is created to make the
people that produce it and act it to have a good time but the simple fact is
that this is too complicated to understand and therefore dull at its most.
Connections
The week gave us
the opportunity to read a play done 100 years ago in the
German expressionism time which treated themes from this century and
that has to mean something. I think that Expresionists had a very open
mind and that they understood the liberal way of thinking at its most. The
themes presented in the play made me thought of current daily life were that
story of a girl dying from a bad abortion practice is almost the
story of every day and that the idea of sex and the fact that older ideals
of conservatives protected youngsters from knowing about this made it more
difficult for them to take care.
Reflection:
I could understand
the importance of engaging the audience in what you want to present
and that without it the audience will feel that it is not worth it.
The ideas might be
the same although the times have changed, Spring awakening, portrayed this
ideas but with the frame of thinking from people in that time, the question
would be was it better that way or is ti okay the way it is now?
domingo, 25 de noviembre de 2012
Presentation 3 days
Description:
This week we finally had the Andean theater presentation with the help of our director Roberto and a group of musicians that also went in that amazing trip to the Peruvian highlands.We presented even though we were almost about to let that opportunity go and give up. The presentation was very colorful with a lot of participation of the audience and specially the third day, El Bosque, was the best one because of the interaction and the reaction of the people who really made it feel as if we were very nearly in Paucartambo.
Analysis:
This presentation made me think of a lot but mostly the difficulty of actually performing with this type of clothes and masks. The heat was tremendous in the third day and with the more than 5 items of clothing, we werent able even to breath deeply and so we couldnt shout as we were supposed to. In the first 2 days i think our performance was in decadent success, in the first day we were able to create a bit of the atmosphere we wanted but still we could achieve every thing we wanted to while in the 2nd day we did a much shorter performance than we were expecting to and i personsally felt a bit disappointed with that day. Finallly the 3rd one was the best, we created the atmosphere and kept it until the end which was a great final with the students satisfied with what we gave them.
It is very important to note how the people from the school still cant see this relation between what we do and the culture that is around them, meaning that even though it is something purely peruvian, they still cant feel it as their own and they alienate themselves from the reality of their history and people.
Connections:
I felt a very powerful link to paucartambo in case of the audience response to the party and i felt free to move around the space following the conventions we are used to.
I was able to see that people are more used to the festivity and still don't get a full attachment towards the music and dance thus, they actually do it in the part of the gifts because they are less used to be given food for free, creating a sort of anomaly situation and therefore making them go nuts for them, just as the Christmas celebration were even though it has a religious meaning, the part you enjoy the most is the presents you are given because it is something unusual and once every year.
Reflection
I felt a strong attraction from the people of the school towards the presentation, following from the idea of chaos that made the people feel reliefed and from the atmosphere of party that is what rounds up the whole performance.
This week we finally had the Andean theater presentation with the help of our director Roberto and a group of musicians that also went in that amazing trip to the Peruvian highlands.We presented even though we were almost about to let that opportunity go and give up. The presentation was very colorful with a lot of participation of the audience and specially the third day, El Bosque, was the best one because of the interaction and the reaction of the people who really made it feel as if we were very nearly in Paucartambo.
Analysis:
This presentation made me think of a lot but mostly the difficulty of actually performing with this type of clothes and masks. The heat was tremendous in the third day and with the more than 5 items of clothing, we werent able even to breath deeply and so we couldnt shout as we were supposed to. In the first 2 days i think our performance was in decadent success, in the first day we were able to create a bit of the atmosphere we wanted but still we could achieve every thing we wanted to while in the 2nd day we did a much shorter performance than we were expecting to and i personsally felt a bit disappointed with that day. Finallly the 3rd one was the best, we created the atmosphere and kept it until the end which was a great final with the students satisfied with what we gave them.
It is very important to note how the people from the school still cant see this relation between what we do and the culture that is around them, meaning that even though it is something purely peruvian, they still cant feel it as their own and they alienate themselves from the reality of their history and people.
Connections:
I felt a very powerful link to paucartambo in case of the audience response to the party and i felt free to move around the space following the conventions we are used to.
I was able to see that people are more used to the festivity and still don't get a full attachment towards the music and dance thus, they actually do it in the part of the gifts because they are less used to be given food for free, creating a sort of anomaly situation and therefore making them go nuts for them, just as the Christmas celebration were even though it has a religious meaning, the part you enjoy the most is the presents you are given because it is something unusual and once every year.
Reflection
I felt a strong attraction from the people of the school towards the presentation, following from the idea of chaos that made the people feel reliefed and from the atmosphere of party that is what rounds up the whole performance.
domingo, 4 de noviembre de 2012
Report PPP Andean
Description:
This week we worked towards the ppp for andean theater presentation, we had to create a piece of report to sum up all of our ideas for the PPP and visions for the performance. After doing the part of the PPP corresponding to each, we had to send a report. Mine was for the change in routine that the people from the school, our audience, experience through the presentation. I said that we are used to have a calm and respectful, much like a prison for our minds in our daily life, but with the presentation, the audience was able to experience chaos i n a place were chaos is scarce, exploding moments in a calm place and picaresque characters in a place were people have to dress up as integer citizens in all time.
Analysis:
I was able to understand how the people from paucartambo not only enjoy the performance and celebration for the obvious reasons we know, such as the importance to the town or the religious/cultural meaning as well as clearly the show that it makes. I was able to see that people enjoy celebrations along this lines because of the "wild" feeling it creates, it sets you free, all the alcohol, the music, the spectacle and the joy from the performers gets you into a different environment and a different mood (change in the routine) that can be understand as another state of mind in which the audience gets involved so much that it is actively participating and enrolling in action. We could say that the people from Paucartambo and us, the school audience, are not that different because we both can engage in that same activity of the mind set.
Connections:
It is like when you go to party, you have another mind set, such as a sports car when it goes to a track, you can engage to be ready to enjoy even if you are not in the mood just because you feel released from that prison that society creates through educational system and then when you are released, you can activate your most deep analitical sense and just simply enjoy without knowing why. This exact thing happens with the celebration, the music, the chaos, the environment, the people make it feel as if it is a real pary, which in a sense it is, and you can just relax and flow with the current.
Reflection:
It is clear for me now that first of all you have to think deeply in the audience you are presenting the performance to but more important to know you performance well enough to realize that you can actually present it to almost anyone because this is a mind setter performance that actually suits any like and any idea of theater due to its different interpretation and effect in people.
domingo, 28 de octubre de 2012
Play review comparison
This thursday the 25th we had a three way unipersonales presentation in the school theater. We had first Hayde Caceres, a very renounced actress in Peru, then, a cuer2 presentation with Chiara and "lo mas resistente" and finally the third and last, a 1 hour presentation by xxxx Grosso, an invited argentinian actress.
Hypothesis: what is the most important part for the creation of a uni-personal.
I would like to start with the one I enjoyed the most, Hayde Caceres 's "la madre" which showed a very lomg production and training process to achieve such a wonderful connection between the actress and the audience and to create a link and a relationnin which the audience was totally inmersed in what was happening. The elements she used were just a briefcase and some clothing, acompanied by a dash of rum used to enhance the atmosphere of relief and distress throughout the play. She presented a play in which a cabaret or entertainer, who has reached a certain age in which she cant get a contract, is send to do a presentation saying she was a transsexual and talks about her life and issues.
Th main instrument for this performance was the excellent use of the voice which Hayde has mastered to perfection and then the ability to mantain a certain connection with the audience that allowes her to express a story of deception and harshmoments followed by a life revelation and a scream of forgiveness. Another key feature fir this presentation was the high rythmical interaction and the fast response created by e reactions in the fake audience and through the actress proyected to us.
After this we saw the first propor unipersonal, cuer2 presented "lo mas resistente" which to me was the most incoherent and non related play of them all. It not only lacked precision and relation with the audience but was also very difficult to understand without giving into account the fact that it was very monotonus. Chiara showed a lot of energy and a very intense process in which she worked towards the use of the body and together with the simbolism of e ropes and book she used to performe, she was aboe to loose the connection with the audience, the only parts in which I felt somewhat intrigued by the performace was when she threw e only 3 phrases of the play, which seemed very profound, but still very difficult to process and to get a grasp of the whole idea of the play, you had to inmerse yourself in a lot of analysis because once agaij it was not a self explanatory idea of performance. The basic idea was of a women that has a certain connection with her old house and she gets into a kind of frenesi in which she feels trapped by the memories of the past and the people, because she seems to represent more than one person, that dont allow her to loose free of all perjudicm and link.
Finally xxxxx Grosso presented a very unusual type of play which showed the great difference between the Peruian conventions and those from the Argentinians. She was a woman that explained her life through a series of situations that involved 3 different stages of life, first the one in which she feels love for the first time, then a imaginary son situation followed with the ending of her first marriage, then she falls again, this time for a me kind of guy that was able to comply with all what she needed, in terms of desires i mean, and finally there is a trip to Greece which i really couldnt understand very well.
She presented herself with 5 portions of clothing or elements that were related to each of the stages of life. And in a performance separated in 5 scenes she was able to atract our attention, even after we had seen the first 2 plays and we very mentally tired, she was able to produce mixed opinions and apreciation in between us whcih some appreciated more than others.
Overall i think that there were very clear preferences towards the most conventionsl and word spoken one of the plays which was the one called "La madre" and then the other fall by there own into certain position to which in my opinion was followed by the one by the argentinian actress and finally came "Lo mas resistente" , that even if showed a very good level of energy and body expression through intense preparation, was the most difficult to understand and process and for those reasons, together with the monotonus issue, was the one i enjoyed the most.
As we can see from the presentations, it is not only the process that takes in place for this kind of presentations to be good but also, it is in some ways, the actor or actress, the story and the direction that takes place for it to occur.
Hypothesis: what is the most important part for the creation of a uni-personal.
I would like to start with the one I enjoyed the most, Hayde Caceres 's "la madre" which showed a very lomg production and training process to achieve such a wonderful connection between the actress and the audience and to create a link and a relationnin which the audience was totally inmersed in what was happening. The elements she used were just a briefcase and some clothing, acompanied by a dash of rum used to enhance the atmosphere of relief and distress throughout the play. She presented a play in which a cabaret or entertainer, who has reached a certain age in which she cant get a contract, is send to do a presentation saying she was a transsexual and talks about her life and issues.
Th main instrument for this performance was the excellent use of the voice which Hayde has mastered to perfection and then the ability to mantain a certain connection with the audience that allowes her to express a story of deception and harshmoments followed by a life revelation and a scream of forgiveness. Another key feature fir this presentation was the high rythmical interaction and the fast response created by e reactions in the fake audience and through the actress proyected to us.
After this we saw the first propor unipersonal, cuer2 presented "lo mas resistente" which to me was the most incoherent and non related play of them all. It not only lacked precision and relation with the audience but was also very difficult to understand without giving into account the fact that it was very monotonus. Chiara showed a lot of energy and a very intense process in which she worked towards the use of the body and together with the simbolism of e ropes and book she used to performe, she was aboe to loose the connection with the audience, the only parts in which I felt somewhat intrigued by the performace was when she threw e only 3 phrases of the play, which seemed very profound, but still very difficult to process and to get a grasp of the whole idea of the play, you had to inmerse yourself in a lot of analysis because once agaij it was not a self explanatory idea of performance. The basic idea was of a women that has a certain connection with her old house and she gets into a kind of frenesi in which she feels trapped by the memories of the past and the people, because she seems to represent more than one person, that dont allow her to loose free of all perjudicm and link.
Finally xxxxx Grosso presented a very unusual type of play which showed the great difference between the Peruian conventions and those from the Argentinians. She was a woman that explained her life through a series of situations that involved 3 different stages of life, first the one in which she feels love for the first time, then a imaginary son situation followed with the ending of her first marriage, then she falls again, this time for a me kind of guy that was able to comply with all what she needed, in terms of desires i mean, and finally there is a trip to Greece which i really couldnt understand very well.
She presented herself with 5 portions of clothing or elements that were related to each of the stages of life. And in a performance separated in 5 scenes she was able to atract our attention, even after we had seen the first 2 plays and we very mentally tired, she was able to produce mixed opinions and apreciation in between us whcih some appreciated more than others.
Overall i think that there were very clear preferences towards the most conventionsl and word spoken one of the plays which was the one called "La madre" and then the other fall by there own into certain position to which in my opinion was followed by the one by the argentinian actress and finally came "Lo mas resistente" , that even if showed a very good level of energy and body expression through intense preparation, was the most difficult to understand and process and for those reasons, together with the monotonus issue, was the one i enjoyed the most.
As we can see from the presentations, it is not only the process that takes in place for this kind of presentations to be good but also, it is in some ways, the actor or actress, the story and the direction that takes place for it to occur.
domingo, 21 de octubre de 2012
PPP Andean Theater
Description:
The PPP for the Andean theater presentation is a fundamental part of the course in the IB because at the end of the 2 year course, we will have to present a final PPP from a stimuli given by the IBO and so we have to develop all sorts of analysis and interpretation skills as well as the necessary ability to develop this piece of art which has to have all the investigation and development process of the stimuli.
Analysis:
The whole idea of the PPP seems a little bit to much because well we are used to be judged by our results, but in this opportunity what the IB wants is to see the process of our work and how we develop our ideas other than just looking at our results which means that we have to take into account all the mistakes and all the different ideas we have into the PPP. We have to discuss over and over again so that we can go deep inside the best ideas. Ideas only develop well if you work on them, you have to spin them around your head so that you can see through the vague but shiny ideas to those which are really possible but maybe no that well looking.
It is a process that you have to pass through if you want to actually create a play because not all good ideas can really be done, most of the people think that their ideas can be achieved but experience and actual practice performance can tell you the real difference between a probable and a possible idea.
Connections:
When someone tries to get concrete ideas, those that can be used, he has first to try them as much as he can. It is only through mistakes that you get to the final answer and that's why i compare this PPP with a recipe. As you can see, recipes arent always there to work, there are some that dont or just some that you cant understand and so you cant complete them as they should, that's how ideas work, you just have to try until you get somewhere.
Evaluation:
In the beginning i thought that PPP had no real meaning because it was based on judging the process which is nonsense but now i can see that it prepares us to have a much deeper view on the analysis measures that we can work on.
The PPP for the Andean theater presentation is a fundamental part of the course in the IB because at the end of the 2 year course, we will have to present a final PPP from a stimuli given by the IBO and so we have to develop all sorts of analysis and interpretation skills as well as the necessary ability to develop this piece of art which has to have all the investigation and development process of the stimuli.
Analysis:
The whole idea of the PPP seems a little bit to much because well we are used to be judged by our results, but in this opportunity what the IB wants is to see the process of our work and how we develop our ideas other than just looking at our results which means that we have to take into account all the mistakes and all the different ideas we have into the PPP. We have to discuss over and over again so that we can go deep inside the best ideas. Ideas only develop well if you work on them, you have to spin them around your head so that you can see through the vague but shiny ideas to those which are really possible but maybe no that well looking.
It is a process that you have to pass through if you want to actually create a play because not all good ideas can really be done, most of the people think that their ideas can be achieved but experience and actual practice performance can tell you the real difference between a probable and a possible idea.
Connections:
When someone tries to get concrete ideas, those that can be used, he has first to try them as much as he can. It is only through mistakes that you get to the final answer and that's why i compare this PPP with a recipe. As you can see, recipes arent always there to work, there are some that dont or just some that you cant understand and so you cant complete them as they should, that's how ideas work, you just have to try until you get somewhere.
Evaluation:
In the beginning i thought that PPP had no real meaning because it was based on judging the process which is nonsense but now i can see that it prepares us to have a much deeper view on the analysis measures that we can work on.
martes, 2 de octubre de 2012
Idem 2
Description:
This week we continued with the Andean performance and we discussed certain in-conformities that we had with respect to the central idea that was, to some extend, copied from another performance from years before. As I said last week, some members were missing the other week and so they, who came with fresh ideas, decided to help us with the performance and the new idea developed was the Kiosk and the rise in prices from year to year, which again suited the desired type of topics and the audience would easily relate to that.
Analysis:
The New analysis for the stimuli based in the idea of the prices in the Kiosk and how they rise each year in food and drinks like Coke which is 2.5 soles or like chicken which is 4.5 soles which to all is too much. We thought of this idea because people in the past years, or students at least have always discussed this rises in prices that to us have no sense. The idea of the whole performance is to present something that relates directly to the issues that the school students, our audience, are aware of.
We want to include in our performance the conventions of the Entrada, the syncretism and the Guerrila ( rapto de la Imilla -> Salim) that to us were the most important and impressive to see and to perform.
In terms of the places we are going to use I think that the Entrada should be through the main rock path in the football courts and then directly to a dance and protest in front of the Kiosk. Then we should continue with the kidnap of Salim and run towards the Churchill patio because of the space (big spaces more actions) and then the Bosque should be as we wanted in the top of the main door to the theater. We chose this locations because we want to give the dynamics that the actual performance has and then we need space so that the whole school can approach and see. We need some fabrics to put in the patio so that the space is reduced to a more intimate diameter so that we wont be lost in the crowd.
Connections:
The prices in the Kiosk -> Syncretism
The school problems -> Audience
Big spaces and fast pace -> The Kiosk, the Patio and the dancing
Evaluation:
In my opinion our main problem is to see if the people are going to attend to the celebration and how to get their attention. We have proposed many options like warakasos in the corridors and live music which seems the best option to me because as well as it is a convention, it is a good way to make the people notice us.
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