Performance art

elderly actor, whose name is unclear in the pamphlet given out before the performance, starts off by talking back to that voice. During this portion lights simulate lighting and the actors act afraid. They all of a sudden start speaking different languages. This refers to the Tower of Babel in the Christian belief of when God changed…

The Harlem Dancer is a short poem that focuses on a woman’s beauty and a scene inside a bar. The title indicates that the location of the bar is in Harlem which was considered a common place during the Harlem Renaissance. McKay has also described the woman in this poem to be a young, black prostitute and he observes the impact that she has towards the crowd. After a while the speaker notices that the dancer is unhappy due to the lack of respect she is getting from the audience. He incorporates…

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Some basic steps for salsa are the basic forward and back, backwards basic, and side basic (ArtsEdge). When you dance salsa, you find the beats in salsa music you are given and dance on the phrase labelled as “1, 2, 3” and “4, 5, 6” (Salsa Dance Patterns) (HowcastArtsRec). You can start on the one-beat and you do two quick steps and then a slow one and repeat to fill the 8-count (ArtsEdge). With a partner, the woman is only “marking the time” and “helping the man to execute the steps” while…

“Good luck out there. Should you need to vomit, please do so away from the piano,” quipped the competition organizer. Out of all the days I could have woken up feverish and dizzy, it just had to be March 27, 2011, the day of the piano competition. Playing the piano for an unwelcoming panel of stone-faced adjudicators when everything I saw seemed to spin round-and-round was the last thing I wanted to do. Well, no. Second-to-last. Every day for several months, the same cascading arpeggios…

He Mandu After listening to both versions of the song, I prefer to listen to the second version. The first version it seems out of balance in how everyone was singing. It seemed that the singers on the right side, specifically the one in the red, was doing the most singing. While the left singers to me did not feel as if they were singing as much. I determined this by their gestures and movement of their lips. This is most likely because classical singers are divided into different voice types,…

performed beautifully. When the piece was coming to a close, I began to hear people clapping in the audience and cheering when the performance ended. It was the first sense of audience interaction that I saw the whole time. Which makes sense because it needs to be quiet when people are performing such massive and complicated pieces. When that finished, the next performance was getting ready. It was Berg's Violin Concerto. I never heard of this piece before, but it was definitely and interesting…

A soliloquy is a device used in drama when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience. However, other characters are not aware of what is being said. William Shakespeare’s soliloquies are written in blank verse of unparalleled variety, invention, and rhythmic flexibility, suggestive of the rapidly changing moods of their speakers. Through soliloquies, Shakespeare’s Macbeth explores the way characters wrestle with their…

Working on a play like Sure Thing in the classroom would help developing actors learn the importance of timing and recognize how important it is to keep a scene moving if working on their improvisational skills. While this show was scripted(I think), it seemed as if it were an improvisational show and every time the bell was rung, the actors had to change the direction of the scene. To make the scene successful, the actors had to react quickly after the bell was rung, and stay focused. At times…

Looking back, I never thought this day would arrive so fast. Not the day of writing the self review, but Music Night. I can remember looking at the white-board as Mr. Snodgrass was writing down the date of the performances, and thinking about why he was bothering to tell us about them so soon. The two months really did pass quickly though, and before I knew it, it was December 6th, and Music Night. While I would normally not be pleased about time moving so fast, in this case I really cannot say…