Music from Aida.

I always forget how much of a PERFORMANCE music really is.
The theatrical aspect of it.
The way you actually have to present yourself to the audience.
To move them.
To feel them.
To guide them.


Just as the actors do. :)



I LOVE the soundtrack to Aida, and the pit orchestra was stellar, I have to say.

Simply wonderful.

Compliments to the players and conductors. :)

Aida.

I didn't try out for this play-- one because I can't sing worth a damn, and two because I am currently enrolled in track and couldn't/wouldn't give that up to perform.

But I did go see the play. Twice. That's the first time I've ever seen a Rampart production twice, and that is a true testament to what an amazing and incredible job the actors did with their performance.

I think maybe part of the reason this one was so spectacular was because the plotline wasn't too too hard to follow. Like All the King's Men... I could follow that story line, but I had to pay attention a lot more than I did with Aida.

Aida drew me in with PASSION, and LOVE, and true HEARTBREAK, rather than intellectual stimulation. Does that make sense? Like the storyline itself was not complicated, it was the way they played out the emotions that made it so compelling and so easy to watch and to enjoy.

I am ashamed to admit it but I actually CRIED. Legitimately cried. That's how convincing Jessica and Ben and Hudson and Janice (and the rest of the cast) were.

Incredible.
Unbelievable.
Marvelous.

Progress Report on Research Investigation.

Well. Found a good research question... I wanted to try to work on African theater, but the research for that is SO SO SO hard to find. So I gave up. I'm doing Brazilian theater instead, which is pretty easy to find research for....

EXCEPT.

I have to narrow down my topic so that I can get really deep into it instead of just BSing a whole bunch of shallow stuff... And therefore I'm going to have to do some more extensive research, cause right now I just have background information and basics. I have to find a specific tradition or theory, a specific play, a specific practitioner.


I'm feeling overwhelmed cause I just don't want to do this right now.
And it's thankfully a topic I'm fairly interested in.
But not overly PASSIONATE about it.
So 2000 words is not looking too hot right now.


Ahhh.

Research Investigations-- Finding a Question

Everyone knows that a good question leads to a good paper.
And THAT is why I'm stressing out. Haha.

I haven't found a good question for my research investigation yet, and I am falling way behind. Which is scary and stressful cause these babies are due in a couple weeks. (Babies meaning papers. Of course.)

I think part of it is just that there are SO MANY PARTS to this paper, and you have to make sure you have each and every one of them, and somehow roll it up into one little cohesive essay.

Um...

WTF?!?

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Plus it has to be at least 2000 words, which isn't awful, it just isn't easy.

As soon as I think of a topic, I'll do my research.

And as soon as the research is out of the way, it's downhill from there.

Just get the research done.
Just get the research done.
Just get the research done.