Reflect on Workshops

 This experience was so fun. I like how we did everything in bits. Separating each element of theater makes adding them together more powerful. The dance we did was so different and interesting. The movement that they do half across the world was being taught right here in our school. Then talking about the text's meaning in theater brought me to realize how important the tone and expression of the text can change so much. For that exercise, we read a script about an object in life and its point of view. We choose one of the paragraphs from the script and Jackson and I created our own scene. We used Remote and made our scene tense by having the two of us stare at each other while sitting and having minimal movement without a set and expressing how so little can be so much. When learning terms such as direct, indirect, heavy, light, sustained, or sudden. Watching how my classmates just walk around the black box thinking about the stock character in themselves. Learning to direct properly with good terms We also looked at that painting which at first look you wouldn’t think had so many possibilities and so many perspectives in the painting. We see these trees burning and it can make us think so much about the meaning. When we were doing that I chose to make a scene. I built a story where two kids are lost in the woods. They are enemies and over time become closer and closer. They have learned to live in the woods. The fire in the woods is kind of the end of the story but it is an obstacle that the characters face. To think I created all of that from a painting is so shocking. Then did the other students' activities help build thoughts about the piece. Like when I wrote an internal monologue, I truly felt embraced by the idea of the painting. Then going on the walk in the woods to inspire our group project was so cool and truly felt like a true idealist. Last of all, watching the cool timelapse of animals over time based on the painting Jackson thought of was very inspiring. I was sadly not in person but I still felt moved by the piece. I am so grateful for our workshops.