Buenosdiashpapai. So... we've came back from Paucartambo, but this time i went with the IB nexteles. Interesting points i discovered:
1) IDEALY you shouldn't dance drunk since it is disrespectful and the virgin sees and knows all. so..watch out on that.
2)Practice: they practice only four times (officially) and four (outside paucar) per year...
3) Mask: you can see perfectly with mask (i wore one original one) ok so..it's not like having eyes but i could see better than i expected.
4)negrillos rock
5) costumes: each year you buy a new costume (at leat in majeños) and you do it seperatly (not as a group).
6) if you don't go to the rehearsals then you get 3 typs of punishment: 1) talk 2) written...3)the donald trump "YOU'RE FIRED!".
7) Arianna when sleeps moans, snore and ...throw peds a.k.a Farts
Now, the other interesting thing that was discussed during our Cusco Trip was my I.P. And the point i'm going to reflect on is ... my culture reflected on art. I still don't really get why i can't do the disney princess idea...ok i know its now peru's reality but why is it not mine? I've never seen one but i mean ..i've seen like 120000 times each movie and i like them so much. I KNOW that i'm taking about something that happens in US and i'm not going to see i the streets but listen: hey! I don't want to reflect anything in this play (i know... its not the IB thingy) but personally i see theatre as just a way of entertainment ...going outside your daily rutine remember? ...LET'S TAKE PAUCARTAMBO for example... they adore the virgin 365 days a year however ...they have a special festival once a year...and i don't now lets take for example ...the qollas and the maqtas...ok...they dress up as NOT THEIR REALITY!? so they are not doing it right? not at all...i think that you need to ..focus on the audience then! since there are gringous (world cup, last year it was michael jackson)...BUT ARG..i hate you roberto. (i'm not doing the princess anymore and i'm not working with manuela either...so i need to rebuild my I.P. AGAIN) . I still don't fully agree with all this personal thing culture and stuff....since we are half USAnians...but anyway...
NOW... the question is... when you do a play you focus on the theme? or in the audience? ...what's your aim? to leet you message through? or to entertain the audience? BOTH? ..but then what if you don't really want to teach something ..that just comes along but its not important? ...do AUDIENCE need to RELATE to one in order to be part of the play? or that is just to understand the message? ..and if there is no message? does it because less of a theatre and more of a movie that is just actions in a story? ..... complications complications.
ps: I do get your point by the way..i just don't fully agree with it.
what are you? who are you? they are important questions, but maybe the most important one is: what makes you be who you are? identity is ever changing, but it is important to find out why and how it changes, what makes it change, and what we can do about it. and art is a very good way of exploring that. you have to be critical and not just assume things, but rather question them. and explore them. through the representation of actions on a stage.
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