FINAL POST!!!!

I still remember the first class in Literature & Performance; we had a warm-up games to help ourselves to perform. Undoubtedly, this class helps me become more and more into acting. When I watch movies, or read books, I will come out with my own emotional analysis. I feel like IB Literature & Performance and IB Theatre help me to know myself better in high school. In the beginning of my junior years, I just want to challenge myself to learn something more outside of the class, in which not only learning the terms and books, but also studying how to speak properly on the stage. In my personal experience, I grow more into performing. In the first place, My performance was stiff and impassive. the first performance on fences is only about the voices. I only know the difference of speaking loudly or quietly, and so I am not actually into performing the personality of my character; for example, fences, I am not really understand what exactly I am expressing; the only thing I can see the how loud I am. Hahhh Sometimes, it’s a really big challenge of transforming myself to the portraying character. However, with different practices in the class: The Glass Menagerie, Krik Krak, Verbatim theatre, and Romeo and Juliet, I am more able to perform it with different standard, putting myself in different conditions. In Romeo and Juliet, I don’t know what’s the emotion be like, I don’t know the techniques, I don’t know what’s actually we are performing. Yet, the Glass Menagerie changes me; it’s a real break through for me since I am acting an aggressive character, Amanda. She is really different than what we have taught through. She is a controlling, aggressive, biased character in our understanding. I then fortunately accept this character; and for me, it’s really hard to act because I am not Amanda at all. In order to act mean, I need to focus on some words particularly: the word, chewing is the most common word in my lines. And I memorized this still. Also, to act mean, I often point at people to show some disrepectful. When I think of it now, I still think it’s a hard piece to do. Moreover, we add another scene to make it more dramatic, but it seemed like I didn’t memorize it fully and I didn’t perform well in front of the audience. Sometimes, I still dreamed of this scene, thinking how can I fix it to become better and the best of all. In my recent book performance, Krik Krak, I think my emotion gets more realistic and satiated. When I act as the mother, Lili, my performance has more emotion: not only showing mad and angry, but also having satisfaction, and grieved; it varied. Thanks to the literature analysis from Krik Krak, I am able to interact with Lili and the Night Women. And I am able to perform. In my writing, I am not sure I am in a higher level, but I am improving some part of it. IB Literature & Performance Class helps me to express myself in words. Seeing my previous writing, it’s kind of lame, but now still. Yet, I have much more descriptions about everything. In the beginning, I didn’t depict anything about the stage, direction, costumes. But through practice of noticing the stage, costume, themes, and conflicts; I am more capable to write review and my understanding of a play. This class also encourages us to develop our interpretation of certain plays; when we see or perform a play, we often have our own interpretation, and we cannot deny any understanding from other people. We accept and perform to people. It’s the new but fruitful experience for Helen. I feel like I am so lucky to be here with everyone in my class. We grow so much: from know nothing to talking about everything in acting. Now I enjoy performing on a stage with all the audiences around me. Thank you! Ms.Guarino, Because of you, I have the opportunity to interact, to perform on the stage. I appreciate my experience in Cheshire Academy with you. I am going to miss you so much! I believe you actually find my skill and talent in acting. I will continue being an actress in the future.