Woooow, what an amazing trip we have just had recently. I just started my blog so I haven't got to pour out my thoughts on what happend. But to sum it up in one word, I would say that it was seriously, abosolutely AMAAAAAAAAAAAZINNNNNG. Before we went on the trip my amazing acting teacher Mrs. Kim Thomas has proposed to us an assignment to do during the trip. She told us that we had to become a character totally different from our personalities, andwhen we get to the show become that character almost the whole time. In my mind I was like "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!" How am I going to stick to a character the whole time?!"
But she said that it helps you know more about method acting, which I really wanted to know more about. So the characters that she chose for us was to be overly friendly, a groupie of either a dancer judge, claustrpphobic, a security guard, a casting directior or scout, a manager, a dancer or last but not least, a celebrity. This was very funny to me but yet serious because I was wondering if our class could really pull it off. So the character I chose was overly friendly, meaning that I was happy about EVERYTHING.
When we got to the So You Think You Can Dance studio, that's when our class wasn't afraid to establish into their character. We have already gotten the stares and looks but our class still didn't break out of character which was great. We almost even got kicked out of the studio for our behaviour because our character that we were playing was way too extreme.What I thought was really intersting was the fact that the public BELIEVED everything that we were doing. It's not about fooling them, and causing them to be really gullible, but it was the fact that since we BELIEVED that we were that character, the public believed it as well.
So, in the end the trip was AMAZING, the dancers were INCREDIBLE and I can't wait to go back.
Maybe we can unpack another method acting assignment soon!
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