My interpretation

In our group, we had Jasmine, me and David. Although we went through some difficulties during the entire show. Yet, we still finished it. We, at first, think we should have some movement in every sentence to show our understanding of the poem. One person should read the sentences and the other two just need to perform what he/she was reading. As a result, it won’t be that boring and tasteless because the audience can see our interpretation of the day on the movements that we were adding. Moreover, we added music to make the movement amusing. At first, the music is soft which emohasizing the quietness. However, we have a more active music afterward, which create a sense of nature and euthusiaism. Then, we changed it again to the quite music, adding a small and sleeping sounds. Then, We were literally performing based on the saying of the authors. We then think that David should be the first to read because he has a soft voice: morning is the beginning of the day, and it might need some softness and tiredness in the poem. On the other hand, because I have a stronger and motivated voice, then I should probably say the lines that involved with active and enthusiasm emotion such as:” Be surprised by nature that shares your world of giant steps. The bug that irks you, the yellow butterfly that catches your eye, and the furred thing with sharp teeth that repel you-are all in your moment of history.” This paragraph emphasizes the active and the lively of the middle of the day. The giant steps, the bug that irks you and the yellow butterfly catches your eye. We can all imagine the situation happened in front of your eyes. That’s the magic and active scenes of this paragraph. Moreover, we considered that this is the middle of the day, so I represent the person who works and sees all the scenery. Then, Jasmine was the one who speaks the last two paragraph. These two actually focus on the prayer. We think that maybe the person should be quiet to be the prayer. It concentrated more on the praying and the faith. I think our group frankly had a really funny scene compare to the other five of them. We used movements to draw attention to our group which makes it more interesting. Every single line had our own understanding, but in a more simple way, that audience can see it clearly. Nevertheless, some people think we screwed our scene, but actually, I think we did a great job. Even we laughed during, but we continued to the end, and we didn’t give up on the movements or the embarrassments that happened on the stage. Also, our dance movement is not hard but embarrassed, so it even better as we follow all through. Although we didn’t practice that much to establish strong dance movement in the scene, we will still work on it and that’s the first time we added some dance moves in it.

I especially like about Lesley’s group idea about the two different people’s lives of spending the day. The realistic that they put on the stage by explaining the rich and poor character. One is sleeping on the street and the other one is sleeping in the bed. It expressed the differences from one another. Yet, the money connected the two characters. At the first place, they didn’t even have any connection. Nevertheless, they didn’t take money at all to show that there is little lasting joy in things done only for gold or fame. The two different all looking for different things, but not money. I also like the part when they pray together, it shows some connections between the two people. Joey and Nia seemed to focus on the poem, but not enjoying the poem. Maybe, they can look up to make connections between the two people. Yet, the only thing they did is reading from the paper. As a result, it was not vivid as read it emotionally. The actions are important, but people who read the poem are vital as well.

In my opinion, I like Grace’s group because the background music they did, it was fully related to the natural sound. They didn’t have the changes between each hour, but they blend the poem into a soft, but powerful poem. It gives us the energy to remember to love the nature and love your work.

In Nan’s group, they had a totally different interpretation of this poem. We used it as acting, but they actually converted into songs. It was related to the nowadays that people are eager to perform through music. Their interpretation actually blends in the raps and songs, saying we should love our work through a simple but repeated way. I like her singing part where repeat love your work, it gives the audience a strong memory. Yet, I think the boys should sing louder since I can barely hear them.

In Aaron’s version, they walked and said each line in a joyful pace. Like running to the steps to give people the lessons of enjoying each and every day. It was funny because each of them has to run quickly to the stage and say the line. This emphasizes the importance of the line that people are saying. Yet, they also get together and say the line together as an entire group. Well, the weakness might just be it’s too fast to say, maybe they should slow it down, tasting each line.

In Cassidy’s group, they changed the entire thing. Stella talks about the morning through the night in a more concise way, cutting some lines out and putting them together. Denny mentioned about the dreams and the night in a good sleep. Nevertheless, Cassidy emphasizes “Remember” in her speaking part. Remember to let your secret self flow free, Remember not to let anyone pick the flower up...etc. Those "remembers" give us a strong memory of what they are talking about. Remember to do this, remember to do that. This repetition of remember sounded really good, and let us to think about what should we remember to do like a strong warning for all of us. Then, there is one thing that I remember the most! Is the language we used in Morocco. Cassidy uses this to emphasize the old tongue and the words that you’ve been taught. The language she speaks let me think about that time, when we were together in Morocco, speaking Arabic to the local people. The sweetness and the oldness emerged all in my eyes. I really love this group’s revision.

Anyways, I enjoyed every piece of our work. At least, we all did the work based on the interpretation and showed it to the audience. Everyone has its own interpretation.