Yay finally writing this!

So, my brain was swarmed with so many thoughts after our big talk about King Lear and I finally get to write it down! So one of my first big thoughts was when we talked about the end of King Lear. I love it! After talking about everything and what not, I no longer want to watch any movie with a happy ending because that's not life. What is the end of a movie? The start of another chapter. In a typical movie, it's bad, bad, bad, bad, the sun shines, there’s some kissing going on, then boom, they leave you with a happy ending which inevitably means they’re off to bigger and better things. But, think about your own life. When do you start a new chapter in your life? (Usually anyways)... When something really bad happens. That's when you're life takes a huge turn. When was the last time something really amazing happened and it turned your world around, I mean besides having a kid or getting married, nothing really. At the end of the chapters in your own real life, they end badly, if they ended good there would be no reason for a new chapter. That's just my perspective though; there could be people who think completely different. Another thing we spoke about is how it would be more pleasing to think that the 2 sisters were these beautiful women. I kind of find this funny because society find it more for filling so to say when there is a contrast between the meanness and beauty. If it was cruel ugly people, well that just sounds weird and wouldn’t be as satisfying as to radiant women with cold hearts. I find that very interesting, not sure why, but I do.

shakespeare(actually did a blog before i was told and realized it was saved as a draft....cool)

I absolutely love my new acting workshop. First off, I found a new love for Shakespeare and am even thinking about switching to the Shakespeare class for senior year. I also found a new epic monologue that I love from King Lear which I could definitely use for any audition. I also love how it's a small group and there's a lot of talking and learning going on at the same time. Usually in the workshops it's more of them teaching and talking a lot then us trying to apply it but instead, we were learning but also applying it to the monologues at the same time. We also broke down the monologues and figured out that Shakespeare isn't some crazy poety that no one is supposed to understand but just people talking and we figured out how to make it easier to understand. I also found it awesome that he writes in iambic pentameter and how you can use that to figure out how to actually say the lines and how they're feeling if Shakespeare maybe makes the lines shorter or longer than 10. I can't wait to actually get into Rob's written play.

just read my email! crappp

Dancing work shop: Well to start off, I'm a horrible dancer, that was deffenitly confermed on monday. I think this dancing workshop will be really helpful though in teaching me the basics which I'll obviously need if I want to persue this field. Although I was a horrible dancer, I realize that I'm not as horrible as I thought I was and it's not so bad once you get into it. I've had to dance on auditions before so, although I hate dancing and am a spaz, I'm glad I'm in the work shop becuase it's something I need but would never really be able to bring myself to actually do and learn. I went in thinking I'm gunna suck so obvioulsy I did but hopefully next time I start with a different and better aproach and I'll see if maybe that will change things (which usually does). As my mom says, it's always good to be a tripple threat so although I'll never be a master at dancing, I'll strive to be a 2 and a half threat.

Friday Mime

Fridays mime was pretty cool because instead of doing random different acts of mime, we did scenes. They weren't just any types of scenes though, they were scenes of rituals that we do that flowed into each other. We had engagement, football game, new years party and were currently working on a funeral. They all flow into each other but have no connection. It's cool that you can use nothing but your body but show exactly what we're doing and feeling.

Mime from a different perspective

I actually did more watching mime then the actual act of mime becuase I recorded what was going on the whole class for the ending project. It was cool to watch the learning process and see people get more comfortable as time went on. As your doing mime side by side with all the other people you basiclaly are foccusing on yourself and don't get to ovserve other peoplpe but while i was recording i got to see what people were doing to make it better, how into it some people were getting and how your focus helps you make evrything look more real.

friday mimee

Better late then never. So, as the sessions go on, I'm getting a lot more comfortable with miming which really let's me explore with my body easily and more flowy. I really enjoyed the ending where we did this slow motion excited scene and I actually enjoyed it a lot bc I couldn't believe how real it looked while looking in the mirror. We also did a super bowl fight scene and it was really funny and got me out of my head easily.

First Mime Experience

So, my first experience with mime was very fun but very awkward. I hate when I'm not good at things so I autimatically give up as soon as I start with was probably what happened for the first half but then he said everyone "lean on the bar and hold it" and he went around checking or fixing everyone and he came by and altered my arm a little and said perfect and thats when I looked in the mirrow and was like "woah, I actually look like I'm leaning on something" which is a pretty funny break threw for me but that's when i really started to get into it and enjoyed learning all the small tricks on how to make things look real.

Mimeee

So, during my adventures into researching Gregg Goldston the first thing that came to mind was "holy crap did this man work hard at acheiving his dream". At 18 he figured out what he wanted and didn't stop until he was working with the best. What do I expect while working with this guy? Well, comming from a man who saw no limits, I asume we will be pushed to our own which I'm excited for considering sometimes I need a little push. While watching one of his videos speaking he said that Marcel Marceau worked on huge stage as a single man but some how always looked big, that's what I want to achieve. A presence thats's bigger than my body using something so simple. I think mime will be fun becuase it's some what a truer form of acting. You can't "fake act" with your body. Either there's a natural flow or you've failed. That's atleast how I see it. I'm excited to see how such a master of such work passes on knowledge in such a simple way for us. Bring on the mime.