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My introduction into Sparks Highs drama club was second semester of my freshman year, when my orchestra teacher had asked if some of the class had wanted to play the background music for Dracula. I had ended up playing on stage with a few of the other orchestra students and I fell in love with how much of a home the club felt.
A little over a year later and I'm now working on getting an act together to perform on the stage. Being back stage while the others work is a very different experience than being in the sound booth and I've started to realize things and see them from a performers perspective instead of seeing them as a couple of goofy kids up on a stage.
One of the things I've noticed is how each person that is performing holds their tricks very dear to them. They work on a single movement, a set of two lines, how to toss a ring, again and again until it's perfect. And they still seek improvement. Mickayla Clune, a junior who preformed in our last play An Actors Nightmare, is a perfect example.
Actually looking for these things has opened my eyes in many ways, and has also brought the feeling of home back again, helping me notice that this club is more of a family than I thought. The Theatracks rely on other members to help with their tricks, and that's something I never did notice. How each person matters. Do the other members, the ones who sit off to the side, do they understand this?
It's easy to overlook people just as it is to overlook what many think of as nature (people are nature too). The tone of this page is awesome. It's like your giving us a glimpse into your world.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great blog to be able to get a glimpse of how our drama club prepares to entertain us. Magic has always been a big curiosity on how everything works, so it's going to be amazing seeing how you prepare for it. I always magic was a talent within you.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking as a budding magician and one of the actors, its absolutely easy and possible to see the show as a whole and not the efforts of each individual person. As I study magic, the nuance, and the care, I find that people only really care when it results in their wonder. Like my pressure fan that I spent weeks learning, that our teacher still cannot do, and every time I perform it for a teacher or a friend at the very best I get a "cool". I think the reason we care so much about our own practice and tricks is because if we don't do so and appreciate them, no one else will either. okay, now getting off of my soapbox.
ReplyDeleteAlso, your writing is beautiful
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