Space Study Reflection

What are the artistic moments you don’t want to forget?

One moment that really stood out to me was how serene our “set” felt as we were performing. I must be honest in saying that my group wasn’t the most focused group there ever existed, so towards the end of our given time I felt very rushed to come up with something presentable, creative and something that will touch the audience. When it was our time to perform, I started having mini heart attacks because I thought my group wouldn’t pull it together and that our 3 scenes wouldn’t impress Mrs. Moon. Now I know the people I had in my group are amazing people and brilliant artists. I am not doubting that whatsoever, but I truly felt that this one time we didn’t really pulled together as a group. When we started our mini performance, however, somehow my group managed to get the feelings of our images and improvise the parts that were still iffy.

All in all, I think my group did a great job considering that I expected our outcome to be not so… impressive shall we say. I’m kind of ashamed of myself for having doubted the people in my group and their abilities as actors. It made me think that I should’ve trusted my cast to do well during the performance (something that I learnt from doing plays and musicals that seemed like they were going to be terrible, but ended up being absolutely amazing on opening nights)

What is one thing you experienced that you hope will inspire or challenge you in the future?

            I hope this practice in using my surroundings to shape my performance will allow me to create better performances in the future. It also taught me to cope with a time crunch and teach myself to focus on the task at hand. I feel as though this wasn’t the best performance that I’ve ever done in my life, but I hope to learn from this experience and become a better performer and work with my peers a lot better in the future.

            One thing that we did during this performance is using the people sitting around us in our performance. It ended up ending a lot more to the performance (in my opinion) and so I know to try and incorporate the people in the setting in performances.

What emotions did you feel as you watched the space studies?

           

            The woods we were in were very peaceful (as woods tend to be) and therefore it allowed the performances to be somewhat eerie and serene. This happened with all three of the performances. I think the woods inspired all the groups to create scenes, which were peculiar and somewhat unnerving; like the group where they had a person hanging from the tree in the background, and the group where they sat around the graves. It made me think about what kind of messages the performers were trying to convey and I found myself trying to think about what emotions I should be feeling. I wasn’t sure whether to feel upset by the images, in awe of the natural, eerie beauty of them or just try to understand the message.

What inspired your space study and how did the stimulus help you design your compositions?

            In our performance area, we found little bits of broken glass around the floor. When I saw them after reading the part of the poem Where Does the Poem Begin, Where Does It End? “The snake slides away; the fish jumps, like a little lily”, it made me think the glass being thrown against rocks would create an interesting sound effect and image of fish jumping.

            One of our images was of a man holding a walking stick. There was an old bamboo broomstick where we were assigned, so we thought it would be cool to have Christian covered in vines, sitting, while holding the broom. From this he turns into the snake mentioned in one of the poems.

            This is just a few or the many inspirations we had from the poems, images and surroundings.