11/20/09

I apologize for getting so behind on this thing. I've been incredibly busy acting in one show, dressing another and getting ready for company auditions. Now those things have dropped away one by one and I've picked up another project: wardrobe for student dance, which comes off right after Thanksgiving break. So, Movement. I'm really proud of the way my movement piece for my monologue came together. I'm glad people enjoyed it, but I'm really not sure that's helpful to me because I'm not sure how to take the movement I have and put it into the piece in a way that I could really use it for an audition or something. Also I'm struggling to create my warm up. I'm struggling to think of something that helps prepare me to move. I usually do a roll-down and vocal warm-up of some kind but I'm not sure yet what's the best way to to prep myself. Anyway, I got my gift this week. I thought it was really cool. I felt like her assessment of my movement habits was pretty accurate. She said it's almost like I have two personalities, one that's kind of tensed-up and one that's really animated like a cartoon. I think she's right about that. I will sometimes hold tension and stay inside myself until I get comfortable in a situation and then I start performing and unleash the weirdness. She showed that in her movement piece by imitating my habits and then switching to me doing my movement piece, using a lot of fluid out-stretched movements. When she said in her letter that there were two of me I wasn't sure how to feel about that at first. I was like, "so does that mean I misrepresent myself?" but I don't think it's necessarily a bad or good thing. As humans our behaviors are situational and we kind of appropriate or habits to situations, so it's normal, but also I find it kind of comfortable to know what I'm capable of movement-wise; to know that I can be animated and kind of sustain two sets of movement patterns and appropriate them to situations. Knowing that I do that or that I can do that gives me hope that I can do the same with my characters and make them more believable.