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Points to Make For My Oral Exam (With the Help of Leyla)

1. Did not know much about theatre before - the only time I was on stage was for a band concert or when I played narrator in Elementary School
2. Had the most difficulty with sharing my ideas and revealing/exposing who I am
3. Broke the barrier by being encouraged and hearing others' ideas as well, learning more about practitioners and realizing I may be able to really develop with mine
4. I learned from the process of using stimuli and devising that
   - theatre can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be, as long as you have a clear message
   - stage elements take a lot of work
   - practioners' theories can be of great use
5. Grown in developing my ideas and thinking more outside the box
   - I'm more creative than I thought and am having less of a difficult time creating a message
6. A message I find in a lot of my pieces: It's okay to be different and there's no need to hide.
7. Themes I find in (almost) all of my pieces: acceptance, difference, vibrance

Images:

- a blank canvas (I have so many ideas to paint)

- trombone (another passion of mine that is stressful at times, but gives me the sense of release: COMPARISON)

- thinking outside the box

- a nice necklace with different beads (all these different people make a beautiful product)

- something simple looking on the outside, but complicated on the inside

THEATRE IN PERFORMANCE:

• Acting
  - Brecht
  - Disney
  - The Empty Space (Deadly, Holy, Rough Theatre)
  - Green Team Piece
  - Improv. Pieces
• Devising
  - Little Airplanes
  - Disney
  - Musical
• Writing
  - Musical
  - Little Airplanes
  - Monologue
• Critiquing
  - We critiqued everything
  - Sweeney Todd
  - Julius Caesar
• Directing
  - Pulp Fiction (?)
• Stage Elements
  - Doing set of Love's Labour's Lost

THEATRE IN THE WORLD:

• Three Penny Opera (Brecht)
• Topgirls (Caryl Churchill)
• Little Airplanes of the Heart
• Marat/Sade
• Romance Language
• took a peek at Commedia dell'Arte
• practitioners
  

1. Brecht (Epic Theatre)
2. Meisner (Method Acting)
3. Shakespeare
4. Brooke (theories)
5. Jacques LeCoq (Physical Theatre)
   - space, colors, plateau, animals, elements
   - clown (Bouffon), neutral mask

THEATRE IN THE MAKING:

• devising from stimuli
  - process, music
• directing and visions
• acting
  - physical (LeCoq)
  - method (Meisner)
• make up
• color
• masks
• spatial awareness
• researching, doing, observing, recording (journal/blog)

Theatre Exam. Oh boy.

Alright, this is officially my drawing board for my Theatre exam on Tuesday. After visiting the museum on Wednesday a few main ideas have popped into my head:

• four people (each from a culture I briefly mentioned in my previous posts) meeting and showing one another their own cultures
• transforming into a different animal according to character traits (happy - dog, shy - ostrich etc.)
• going from an objective world to an animated world

I'LL EDIT WHEN I THINK OF MORE IDEAS!

Un Monde Subdivisé/ A Divided World (Branly)

Same body, same soul.

My group looked at the totemic object of a kangaroo from Australia. The idea that one is part of one bigger ancestor animal is shown. A story was told to us of aboriginal Australians hunting together and dividing up the animal they have caught later. While a person from the South takes the tail of the animal, a person that lives in the center of the land takes the heart of the animal. By hunting the animal and taking their specific parts, they realize that they are a part of the same clan. One ancestor is always kept in mind, as each clan has a different animal. Each family takes a different part of the animal, as they are part of the ancestor.