I am very nervous about my abilities to create expressive presentations or performances in a short period of time -- I'm a little nervous of my abilities to create expressive performances in ANY length of time. I suppose that I've been creating performances with my own expressive ideas for as long as I've been singing, but when I perform a song, I have undergone a great deal of preparation and I have a rather detailed road map to follow. Also, when I was in the musical My Fair Lady I had a pretty explicit idea of what to express. The exercise we participated in last Thursday involved a few steps out of my comfort zone and what I am used to doing. I let myself worry too much about what I wanted to describe and how to express it. As soon as I stopped over-thinking about it, it became simple to isolate individual aspects to express and easy to portray them.
I did enjoy seeing all the images that the rest of the class composed. It was very interesting to watch a group and discern what emotions -- what thoughts -- they were trying to convey. Many of the images were based upon experiences that I could not have guessed had I been given ten years to interpret them, but as soon as the frame was explained, it would make perfect sense.
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