“Loving is Art, and Art is Love. (...) In love and in art, the only constant is inconstancy (Boal 19).” This project gave me the ability to create without pressures and to cherish in the inconsistencies of art. I was able to see how art is forever changing and reworking. Art like love is fluid, the person you love and the art you create are constantly growing, moving, and developing. Normally when I am the director of a project I try to make sure that everything is constant, unique, and together, yet with the rapidness of this project I had to through these ideas out the window. We had to create something. This really made me realize that everything we have done for this class could be used to benefit our piece. I realized that the inconstancy of art is what's beautiful about it, we could change and work together to make something beautiful and inconstant.
With all of the exercises we were doing it felt almost inevitable that we would land on a topic like the macro impact of microaggressions. Also, all of these exercises affected how we dealt with our topic. Due to our bases of this class being The Theatre of the Oppressed, we focused a great deal on oppression within our society and how that …show more content…
As the director, I supervised the rehearsals and the conversations, overall we all worked together to pull what we ended up with. For the first set of conversations, once we settled on the idea of doing a play and workshop, I was apart of the workshop group. We went over what exercises from the class we thought would work well with the topics of microaggressions. We thought the free writing would be a great way for people to process their thoughts after the show. When we were discussing we also thought the board association exercise we did at the beginning of each class could be beneficial. This is why we had the word association when you came in that said, “What’s a microaggression to
With all of the exercises we were doing it felt almost inevitable that we would land on a topic like the macro impact of microaggressions. Also, all of these exercises affected how we dealt with our topic. Due to our bases of this class being The Theatre of the Oppressed, we focused a great deal on oppression within our society and how that …show more content…
As the director, I supervised the rehearsals and the conversations, overall we all worked together to pull what we ended up with. For the first set of conversations, once we settled on the idea of doing a play and workshop, I was apart of the workshop group. We went over what exercises from the class we thought would work well with the topics of microaggressions. We thought the free writing would be a great way for people to process their thoughts after the show. When we were discussing we also thought the board association exercise we did at the beginning of each class could be beneficial. This is why we had the word association when you came in that said, “What’s a microaggression to