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The long haul doesn't look half so forbidding when you've got roommates with similar workloads (or at least they complain more than you).
Stage combat was today in Opera workshop, after a Bado how-to-be-an-opera-singer lecture and a Debbie speech about how acting isn't lying, it's pretending (the thought of which, as a career, brings tears to my eyes). I forgot how awesome it would be to do this for a living.
Anyway, combat man, Bryan something who does all the fights and violence downtown (Alley, Wortham, Ballet), is awesome. Even his less intense demonstrations on himself, as we learned how to make points of connection and simulate greater energy (the one facet of performance when you actually want to use less energy than comes naturally)--I found the display captivating. He'd demonstrate a reaction, even with no instigator, and it'd look like invisible opponents were roughing him up. How to be pushed/flinch away from a slap, and no one slapped him, or even pretended to, but you could see it sting. The sheer control he had over his body, partially, but also the facility with which he could represent such basic aspects of physics without their actually occurring, were fascinating. I am entranced by holistic kinesthetic skill. I should hope to get half so good at physical acting.
Okay, time start and finish the other three gobs of homework I have to do tonight; that one Ling was a killer. I hope they aren't all as time-consuming. Another all-nighter wouldn't be so bad this week, and I can't really blame anyone but myself, as I certainly could have done it at work last night... plus, all these breaks for roommates and House and such... It's not a bad life, just a little tired.
Stage combat was today in Opera workshop, after a Bado how-to-be-an-opera-singer lecture and a Debbie speech about how acting isn't lying, it's pretending (the thought of which, as a career, brings tears to my eyes). I forgot how awesome it would be to do this for a living.
Anyway, combat man, Bryan something who does all the fights and violence downtown (Alley, Wortham, Ballet), is awesome. Even his less intense demonstrations on himself, as we learned how to make points of connection and simulate greater energy (the one facet of performance when you actually want to use less energy than comes naturally)--I found the display captivating. He'd demonstrate a reaction, even with no instigator, and it'd look like invisible opponents were roughing him up. How to be pushed/flinch away from a slap, and no one slapped him, or even pretended to, but you could see it sting. The sheer control he had over his body, partially, but also the facility with which he could represent such basic aspects of physics without their actually occurring, were fascinating. I am entranced by holistic kinesthetic skill. I should hope to get half so good at physical acting.
Okay, time start and finish the other three gobs of homework I have to do tonight; that one Ling was a killer. I hope they aren't all as time-consuming. Another all-nighter wouldn't be so bad this week, and I can't really blame anyone but myself, as I certainly could have done it at work last night... plus, all these breaks for roommates and House and such... It's not a bad life, just a little tired.
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