Movin' and Shakin' those Ventrals and Dorsals

    I t's clowning time!     I was looking forward to this unit because creating a character through physicality and movement has always intrigued me. I think of performers like Toni Collette or Meryl Streep where they just inhabit their characters in such a truthful and physical place. Their characters walk and move around differently and you can see the difference. I've always been interested by how that works and how your physicality can affect your acting or what you're doing, so I was looking forward to trying it out.     However.     Hehehe.     I got. So. Uncomfortable doing the poses and little vignettes in class on Tuesday. I want to make the distinction that it wasn't a bad uncomfortable. It was a, "I am in new territory and I don't know what the fuck I'm doing and that makes me uncomfy" territory. Not, "I am in physical danger and pain and need to stop" uncomfy. I was fine, I just was struggle bussing with it all mentally and ...

    Okey dokey artichokey. Symbiosis. Yes. Cause I definitely know what that word means... This is one of those words that I can vaguely recall learning about in a middle school science class, but the word itself is. Forgotten. Lost knowledge. My own personal, burnt, destroyed Library of Alexandria.       So before I looked up the definition on Google, the first thing I was thinking of was two organisms living together in some way. I was initially thinking it was one of those relationships where one party benefits, and the other neither benefits nor is harmed in the relationship. But after looking it up, symbiosis is, " interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both." or, " a mutually beneficial relationship between different people or groups." Coolio. That's what Google has to say about the definition, but what are my thoughts on it?     When I think of symbiosis, I think of ...

     Alrighty then, we are halfway through the semester! Where has the time gone, someone please tell me. These last 6-7 weeks have just flown by for me honestly. But I digress.     With it being the middle of semester, I thought it would be a good idea to do a little check in. See how I'm doing, how I'm feeling, how I think I'm doing in class, what I've seen improvements in, what I can work on and focus on moving forward, etc.           Coming into the class at the beginning of the semester, I was intrigued and  interested in what we would be doing, but I was also very nervous. I've always been self conscious about how I move. Not necessarily about how I look, but I've never been very confident in carrying out dance things or movement of any sort. Choreographers have bemoaned my small stature, ridiculed my lack of technique, my weight, and I've had classmates (not at USU, but in high school and my one year at the U) critique m...

     Movement projects! Yay! I was absolutely floored and moved by the work of my colleagues. Absolutely and most definitely so. I know that pretty much all of us were approaching the movement projects with a lot of trepidation and fear about our own lack of experience in movement and so on and so forth. I know that I was super stressed/nervous about it. But I think all of us got a lot calmer the day of. All of us were freaking out the nights before, but when we got there, there was this calm and trust that we weren't expecting. At least, I wasn't expecting it.      Truthfully, I really struggled putting together my movement project. I didn't have issues coming up with the story or finding music, I got my idea and music fairly early on, it was just the manner of how to tell my story and how to fill the music with movement that really gave me a run for my money.     I knew I wanted to use the My Fair Lady Symphonic Suite I found on YouTube for my m...