for the first days of training we had to divide the boys and girls into 2 groups roberto had one of the boys and pineda the other i had one group of the girls with miss alicia some times and mauricio got the other girl group. it is hard to teach the girls because they have no enthusiasm to learn so they get tired very quickly and i constantly have to be shouting at them trying to cheer them up with no reaction form them. we have progressed in learing the basic movements of the geisha like walking sitting standing laughing crying and the princess walk, what will be difficult now will be coordinate them in order to make a sequence. because the movements are very slow and it takes a lot of control to move correctly we had to encourage the girls to start working out because it will take a lot of control and effort.
this saturday we had rehearsals and lots of people didnt come because they were on the beach or in the trekking club that is a problem because we will have to loose one rehearsal teaching the boys and girls that were absent to do what they would have learned this last saturday.
in the first weeks of april we will start rehearsing scenes and we will have to start producing dances and movements.
on tuesday we will tell them their characters, i am starting to think that when they find out some of them will leave the play...
Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
sin titulo
i really liked the play, but i think the only problem was the excess of texts to read.
as we entered the room to watch the play there was a lot of written text in the walls with a lot of pictures, the thing is that there wasnt enough time to read all the texts because of the people ahead and behind me. Then as we entered the big space, there were again almost all the walls were written, there were 5 different settings, each of them with one actor and the settings varied, one was a writter, other was a women from the high lands, other was a nun, other was a widow, and the two other i couldnt see.
i really liked the moment when all the actors started speaking together like a greek chorus the accustics of the room made it sound really powerful.
one thing i didnt like about this play was the long texts they spoke, for example the writter appeared several times on a room above everyone and spoke a lot, it was so long that i sometimes got lost, and he just looked at the front didnt even made some actions, maybe if the texts may have been shorter it would have been better.
there was another part regarding the excess of text when two actresses dress with cloths that were printed with statements, the letters were really small and the lights were off there were just a few people with flash lights lighting the room for us to see.
the representation of the history of peru was very good, it started from the chile war and it was very easy to understand what they were trying to say, in comparison with other of yuyachkani´s plays, they are really confusing, but not this one. Other thing that contributed to the entretainment was that fact that the actors were almost all the time standing on top of this on-wheel-platform-thing which could be connected and build a larger platform, but because they were on wheels they moved a lot around the space and you had to constanlty move around the space with them. there were a lot of character changeing which i think is was great, there were a lot of blackout and during these which lasted seconds the actors changed their costumes, one thing i didnt realized at the beginning was that all the costumes that were on display were the ones they used.
when they entered to the phase when they wore the executive masks and the suits, i thing they wore masks not only for montecinos to look like montecinos, but because i think people look like that now a days, they are plastic, all they care is money, they dont have a soul, a voice of expression they are opressed by the rules of society and expectations of stereotypical bases.
a part from the message they were trying to send by saying all the destruction becasuse of the wars and corruption, i think that what they were also trying to say was the change of peruvians, how we went from having a free soul and being happy, to being destroyed by war and violence, that is the point were i think we got our wings of freedom cut off, then it came opressment by authorities, people started to live a lifeless life, until it reached the point were we dont even have our own face, we constantly wear this souless mask and that is what we have become. we dont even take on count our religion, there was a part were there was an angel, jesus and mary i think that they showed us that in order to say that we have also lost that, faith and hope.
and i think that more that representing peru´s history, they wanted to show peruvians own expiriences through peru´s history...
would the play have been more direct and concentrated if there hadnt been so many texts to read ????
as we entered the room to watch the play there was a lot of written text in the walls with a lot of pictures, the thing is that there wasnt enough time to read all the texts because of the people ahead and behind me. Then as we entered the big space, there were again almost all the walls were written, there were 5 different settings, each of them with one actor and the settings varied, one was a writter, other was a women from the high lands, other was a nun, other was a widow, and the two other i couldnt see.
i really liked the moment when all the actors started speaking together like a greek chorus the accustics of the room made it sound really powerful.
one thing i didnt like about this play was the long texts they spoke, for example the writter appeared several times on a room above everyone and spoke a lot, it was so long that i sometimes got lost, and he just looked at the front didnt even made some actions, maybe if the texts may have been shorter it would have been better.
there was another part regarding the excess of text when two actresses dress with cloths that were printed with statements, the letters were really small and the lights were off there were just a few people with flash lights lighting the room for us to see.
the representation of the history of peru was very good, it started from the chile war and it was very easy to understand what they were trying to say, in comparison with other of yuyachkani´s plays, they are really confusing, but not this one. Other thing that contributed to the entretainment was that fact that the actors were almost all the time standing on top of this on-wheel-platform-thing which could be connected and build a larger platform, but because they were on wheels they moved a lot around the space and you had to constanlty move around the space with them. there were a lot of character changeing which i think is was great, there were a lot of blackout and during these which lasted seconds the actors changed their costumes, one thing i didnt realized at the beginning was that all the costumes that were on display were the ones they used.
when they entered to the phase when they wore the executive masks and the suits, i thing they wore masks not only for montecinos to look like montecinos, but because i think people look like that now a days, they are plastic, all they care is money, they dont have a soul, a voice of expression they are opressed by the rules of society and expectations of stereotypical bases.
a part from the message they were trying to send by saying all the destruction becasuse of the wars and corruption, i think that what they were also trying to say was the change of peruvians, how we went from having a free soul and being happy, to being destroyed by war and violence, that is the point were i think we got our wings of freedom cut off, then it came opressment by authorities, people started to live a lifeless life, until it reached the point were we dont even have our own face, we constantly wear this souless mask and that is what we have become. we dont even take on count our religion, there was a part were there was an angel, jesus and mary i think that they showed us that in order to say that we have also lost that, faith and hope.
and i think that more that representing peru´s history, they wanted to show peruvians own expiriences through peru´s history...
would the play have been more direct and concentrated if there hadnt been so many texts to read ????
Monday, March 14, 2011
1st ensayo!!!!!!
well.... it was very exciting to have the first rehearsal. for the first time in my life I have the opportunity of experiencing theatre arts from a different perspective, directing, as i have seen in other opportunities, is not an easy task. However, it is fulfilling as well. Having my thoughts, idea and inventions taken into consideration is one of the most satsfactory feelings I will ever have. Yes, the first day was incrediblby stressful, but, at the same time, it was one of the funnest theatre art days I have ever experienced. Not only did I get o know the kids that would perform in my play, but the fact that I got to know them in another level. In this experience they will get to know me as a director and Ill know them as performers.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Musicals...? more like TAZIYE!!!!!!
Well i worked in my research for this year based on Musicals, Mamma Mia! The thing is that i got the idea wrong about a research! What i did was choose two songs in the musical and analyze them depending on their chord arrangements, lyrics and body movements. This was WRONG. What i should have done was investigate about how to make a musical, not analyze it. Search how it is supposed to be done so the director, or the actor or who ever needs this information can decide if they use that information or not.
I want to get a big fat 7 so i decided to stop wasting my time in my musical research (because there is not so many information about it) and changed the theater practice. I chose Ta'ziyeh!!! This is an Iran theatrical practice which i dont know nothing about, but i will focus on costumes or acting depending on the information available. Tomorrow im going to take a look to the books and decide.
I want to get a big fat 7 so i decided to stop wasting my time in my musical research (because there is not so many information about it) and changed the theater practice. I chose Ta'ziyeh!!! This is an Iran theatrical practice which i dont know nothing about, but i will focus on costumes or acting depending on the information available. Tomorrow im going to take a look to the books and decide.
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