DANCE PERFORMANCE

."The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.  ~Mata Hari" Even though for Mata Hari each movement meant something...  i quite didn't understood the dancing performance.

Wednesday night, we went to Miraflores to watch a Israel dancing performance.
It seemed to be a new experience and God it was! It was nothing like i expected to see.
I was expecting some people almost moving themselves and a story to follow but,
things turned different. It was separated in two performances.

The first one consisted in two guys and a woman. I didn't like it at all.
I mean, their movements and coordination between them was really incredible.  But it didn't had much sense. Maybe like im not used to this type of performances it wasn´t that good for me. I didn´t like  for example that the movements were done without music in the background.
Perhaps, the music was removed in order to appreciate the actor´s movements. However, it seemed more like a bad coordination. I got to this conclusion because there was no music till one X part of the dance when there was no change in the force of the movement or anything else. In my opinion, music gets audience more entertained because background music, even though it wasn't coordinated, it made me get more interested to appreciate what was going to happen next and follow the actions without sleeping.
I didn't understood anything but it seemed as the two guys were fighting for the girl and got fun while doing that. There was no talking but strange sounds were present. They didn't changed so much in sounds and consisted in a contrast between each of them.

The movements repeated themselves and for me it seemed more as they were trying to show off rather to transmit a feeling.

Both performances had the same defects but i liked more the second one. This was because music was incorporated since the start of it but, it didn't went at all with the movement rhythm. They were two different things.
Lights showed first tension making the audience wanting to see more but afterwards lights lost their meaning and were there only decorating because in my case it didn't change my feelings. It was just a light bothering me to see the performance.
The dancing had the same style but in this case it seemed to be something happening.
What i told the guys it meant for me was that both guys were gay and one wanted to make the other one to accept it by provoking him. Finally, it wasn't at all with what i was thinking.
One wanted to be like the other one cause he seemed him as a hero.

Maybe for me it didn't had any meaning and that´s why it seemed so weird. But, maybe that´s  what israel ´s society is expecting to see. So, each type of performance is maybe directed to some type of audience and that´s why it seemed so weird for me. In some times it was very awkward to be sitting there while they were doing some  shameful movements.

I want to know which was their purpose of this performance. Was it to show off or to mean something? And if they wanted to show off why didn't they used the adequateness lights?
How can this type of performance be popular being so uncoordinated?
Was it really coordinated to be like this?

But in first place, which was their purpose by being so plain and at the same part not understandable? 

19/06

This week we focused in analyzing the play.  In my opinion, it was very difficult to have a vision of the play and i think harder to analyse it.
When we were discussing about the parts of the play we touch the topic of the protagonist. I first thought it was the Feudal Lord because he was the one which spooked the most. Afterwards I figure out he wasn't the protagonist because of that. He was the protagonist because he was the one who made actions at the play and made the play depend on him.  When we spoke about protagonists I went back to my infancy and started to think on my favorite characters. There were some characters as Helsing which was a vampire who killed everyone and formed part of a vampire clan. But with this class i figured out that even though his name formed part of the anime series the one who was the protagonist was the master of the vampires because with his actions the story was developed.
Before this class ive always had fought that the protagonists were the ones who had the biggest impact on the audience and the ones who had good values.
But, with this class i figured that protagonists can also be the bad ones of the story and the antagonist isn't the one who has bad values... it was the one who opposed the protagonist desire.
I don't quite remember the play "Sin titulo" but our teacher told us that this play didnt have a protagonist... but how can that be able? Isnt a protagonist the main key to develop the play? Isnt his/her actions who guide the play to follow a certain rythm? It might be i have other kind of questions because i wasnt here but how can it be to a play to start if there isnt a motive or desire of one or many people?

12/06/11

Well, today blog might be very confusing because i don't know how to do an entry with metaphors,Synecdoches and metonymy.

But what i did understood about this literature figures was that a metaphor is when you replace the actual word by something to get a better idea of it. An example of this could be : "Time is a thief".
Time isn't a thief because first of all it doesn't even have a life.  It´s an expression to show that time seems to pass really quick and gives the impression someone is taking you away your time.
This makes me remember that we are running out of time for our play and if possible we could use this expression of "time is a thief" so we better hurry up and work good.

Another literature figure we were into last class was synecdoche. For example , we normally use a synecdoche when you constantly characterize a character  by the same characteristic every time. We find this at the play when the witches ask for the same feudal s blood and really meant for his son.
" Señor Feudal : Que es lo que quieres
Brujas : tu sangre heredera
Señor Feudal: Jamas e visto tal ofensa en esta corte
Brujas: tendremos que llevarnos a tu hijo"
Like i explain before the quote, they didn´t meant to want the hereditary blood they wanted the feudal only son.
Finally metonomy is very similar to a synecdoche. A metonomy is when a thing or concept is not called by its own name but by the name of something associated to it. We could find metonomy when the exorcists ask who brought the evil to the palace and the feudal lord says that he was when actually where their guards with the messenger.
If the feudal lord had gone personally to bring the witches to the palace then there wouldnt be any metonomy but because their guards and messenger went for them with the feudal orders then it is a metonomy.

With this examples and explanations you figure out that actually you need to use a lot of literature figures to create a play and know how to represent things that you aren't able to. But putting literature figures doesn't mean to make plays more difficult because then the audience wouldn't be able to understand what´s going on. So, it is always very interesting to have this figures but with the condition to making it simple.
In my opinion metaphor is the most use to get more images in your head while watching a play. So, is it necessary to always use literature figures to make a good play? can´t you just make a good one without having to complicate so much the director and audience mind?

sources:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portada

Moods a la craig

This week we presented to our class "Moods a la craig". Moods a la craig was about changing the mood of the space by only having to change lights,props, clothes or actor position.  I found it difficult because I had many ideas but for them i needed to change the position of the camera and that wasn't the point.

When i did my presentation i focused to describe the picture and what feeling it transmitted but indeed i didn't focused in what i really had to do. Analyse and reflex about the pictures.
After a class argument  i realized my pictures symbolized a fragment which provide the audience the curiosity to see what was going to the other side or even to be scared of it. After that i fought that this would be useful for the scene where the onis find about his brother being murdered and haven´t seen yet the onis head.

Moods can give different feelings to the audience, but i mean... not every single time an director wants to show one mood he is able to transfer it. That´s why he has to be very easy to form it, without loosing the great different effects he can use. Because it isn't the point to make it that simple and be so clear that audience might get bored.

If  you get more things at the change of mood you would get the audience attention but it might be you get them more confused. So, how do you make the audience mantain entertaining with the change without having to make it simple?