Through the Looking Glass: Aishlinn Parrinello Theater Notes/Reflections

 Must be something that resonates with me personally at least in some way must have room for exploration  must give me "the feeling" -- excitement, interest, engagement, makes the gears in my brain start spinning  Night at the Museum Game:  - students will play statues, standing in different positions on the stage that they think represent the starting point. They will position their bodies to reflect the meaning or relate to the starting point  - there will be one "inspector" that will walk around inspecting the students in their positions  - students must switch positions or poses when the inspector is not looking and try not to get caught  - if the inspector sees the student move, the student is out. Students must move, they cannot stay in the same position the entire time. Students must embody the starting point to the best of their abilities  Reflection:  - the actual night at the museum game was interesting but probably not super affect...

 List of what a director does: giving specific directions for the actor to do still giving the actor some leeway to interpret the directions in their own way  giving lighting directions as well, sound directions  giving specific or vague directions  small changes can have big effects, make a big difference to the over meaning, mood, atmosphere, tension, etc.  Notes on Churchill's Love and Information  short vignettes spliced together  different characters in each about information, how we receive/process information  leaves much to the audience's imagination  no overall narrative arc or continuous plot  seeking, filtering, processing, dismissing, and questioning information  making meaningful connections with other people  Wife  a woman and her partner who might have dementia/Alzheimer's; is not able to recognize her and feels alone  processing information  looking for recognition  desperate longing  Cl...

Why are the body and voice significant in theatrical performance?  how ideas, themes, dialogue are expressed/communicated  What demands are placed on a performers body and voice during performance? communicating ideas through body and voice, communicating themes and dialogues  How do performers train their body and voice? practice  How do performers prepare their body and voice for performance?  rest  warmups Two Key Moments of Learning:  - when everyone has a lot of energy, it is hard to sync up  - we all have different interpretations of the same exercises 

Inspiration  Inspire - to provoke thought in a positive way, to encourage, influence, to bring something to life, breathing  Imagination  imagine - conjure an image, a visual of something  memory and imagination come from the same place in your brain  dreams Two truths and a lies I lost my first tooth at summer camp  I used to never fall asleep during nap time in preschool  I went to a Sesame Street theme park when I was little