Bata Bata - Latin Fresh

One Act play IV

* este es el BLOG vale *

Today we helped valentina with her character Sammy because she doesn't gets it. However as a personal opinion i admire vale as an actress and i also thought she could manage to perform and control any role she would want, vale reminds me a lot of Jennifer Aniston....and watching her struggle and be frustrated about this character was a low blow. In order to help her, we all turned into childern and it reminded me of the tiny toons or The Flinstone kids, and it was really obvios that out of the 7 Sandri was the only one who really managed to be a child. I personally decided to help vale more than the others by asking her to tell me stories and if i didn't like the question i asked her again and again. At the end, vale was ...not able to managed it today! However I'm sure she will do it soon!

So then why did Sandri managed to do it fasted than anybody else? is it stereotype characters that valetina always chose (old people or mature) that made her struggle with a child? was it sandra's personality? was it RoCHE? It makes me think of how come i was able to create FLASH very fast in a comparison to the rest of the IB fieles? And i'm still thinking of how to make Flash more interesting!! I brought a light saber to help him...let's see how he goes.

Question of the day: What is that stops you as an actor to achieve a character!? Is it fear of failure?! Roche? skills? is it your personality? maybe...the audience? your mind? or are you not able to perform as one type of character never in your life!?...uhmm..

Shots - lmfao

One Act Play III

Today we begun with an exercise that i like very much. As usual, we begun balancing the space however this time we had to move as a whole group, or maybe follow one leader and following his way of moving through out the space. Whenever we do this exercise, i ALWAYS picture myself as the avatar controling the moolescules around him (me) with every part of my body. Then we proceeded to play with the state of matter of our bodies, we were SAND, ICE, WATER, AIR, FIRE, WATER, ICE and SAND again. With this we learned about the density and the weight of each element as well as how it moves? does it flor? ....Finally, we played with ANIMALS. We had to chose and animal that ressembled our character. Thinking of Flash I always think of a rat, maybe that's becasue i think of Wormtail...HOWEVER, inmediatly i arched my column and made a posture ofa hunch back...and this also entered into the concept of nerd, and so, i decided to play with a Gorilla. This helped me also, because i pictured flash as a very angry character and so the breathing of the gorilla helped me with that, I remember that in Tarzan whenever the gorillas got mad, their noses grew big big big and sort of smoke came shooting out of their nostrils!! Then little by little we had to turn into a person, and finally i could see how flash moved and his posture.

With this exercise i realized that i used the upper parts of my legs (muslos) to move like a gorilla and that i have very strong ones too, however, it made me realise that humans don't normaly use those in such a way....PLUS, i noticed that whenver rupert asks for a "posture" my first reaction is always, BEND KNEES, ARCH BACK, ELBOWS BENT, FACE UP, ANGRY FACE and mouth close...ALWAYS, and it remind of wolverine...ready to attack. The question for today came when roberto told me: you managed to act as flash, but maybe you will fall from the level you are...WHAT?! will it be possible not to do as well as i was doing it now!? howcome!?

Loba - Shakira

One Act play II

Remember last post? "who will be doing scenery"? well...I AM..what are the odds, it sucks, I really don't know how to do it. I have a vague idea how is it going to end up but all the details? Ironically this is beeing harded than scenery of lVeS becuase: the stage is smaller, the scenery has to be able to be built in 10 minutes (and also removed in 10 min) plus! the decitions are beeing taken by me and Rodrigo!. Maybe he might push me to the limits, let's see how it ends up like.

Now, Flash. I was thinking lately about my character DORKY NERD...and so i related (as i always do, to Disney or Cartoon characters) and i found out all this characters that can be an influence to create Flash:
-Ratman (dexter's lab)
-Mole (atlantis)
-Wormtail (harry potter)
-Sam (rocket power)
-Woody (Zack n' Cody on deck)
-DUFENSHWK DCB (phineas and ferb) HE IS MY BEST OPTION SO FAR.
-Calamardo (Sponge Bob) / when mad
-Mojo Jojo (PPG) (for the laugh)



Still I don't wan't to copy the characters, ...I'm still confuse!! the voice has to be more nasal i figured it out and i've been practicing a lot.. posture? not yet..actions!! props!! meeen. If i base my character on cartoons will that make my character a cartoon to!? and would that be ok and be accepted in the play or will it be seen wrong or out of place!?!?!?

If you Seek Amy - BS.

One Act play

So the one act play is about to star, stress all over again. For this year, Rupert decided to make us write our own script. We finished writing it and it is based on a famous market center in our contry, Polvos Azules. Each one of us is creating it's own character and so until now we have:
Diego - Flash - Dorky nerdie
Sebas- Captain - (maybe ultra perve)
Vale - sam - boy ish girl
Sandra- Sunshine - hippie
Claudia- Mrs. Middleton - British worklady
Felipe- Totsy - Bi polar
Rodrigo - Kawabata - Asian porn addict
We decided to act the play 3 times, each on a different setting and you only get to hear each scene pere time. My concerns about this play are:
1) Who will be encharge of scenery because I WON'T.
2) Are we going to be able to make people laugh and still make them take us seriously as actors?
3)How in the world are we going to manage to rehearse all the play in 2 weeks (me huele a que otra ves estamos short of time)
4)FLASH! about my character: voice? Breathing? posture? Is is going to be like Astolfo (lVeS) same techniques to find my character!? how am i going to end up like flash?!?!?!?!?

Shooting Star - LMFAO

Chapter 2: The Parade & and Fire at night!

Wednesday 15th

We woke up and went to the plaza to buy some masks for our play based on paucartambo. Sandri, Rodrigo and I, we went to buy out breakfast and we bought this yogurt that apparently was ok but really it was like CHEESE! Horrible man, anyway, The big deal begun today with the Entrada. This is the first parade of the festival where all the comparzas approach the church were the virgin is and present themselves to her. However, for this we had to seat on the streets in order to separate our seats. There I found my BPF (best paucartambo friend) Nayeli and I thought her how to draw. The first dance groups that open the festival are always the Maqtas. They don’t have a dance but their job is to open up the space for the other comparzas to dance. They use a whip and Andean clothes. They are one of the few comparsas that can touch and socialize with the audience. After the Maqtas the other comparsas dance in any order and they come with the demanda and the cargo of the comparsas. It was amazing that every comparsa has a different demanda, each costumized according to the danza or to the costume of it. This day was also the day where the famous phrase of CHUNCHOS SU MADRE! Was created, why ? because our dear Sandra is afraid of horse and, today the Chunchos enter to the entrada in horse (as well as the majeños). The "Maq'tas" and the "Q'ollas" are the two dances that whip each other as a punishment or baptism ritual, this is called the "Yawar Unu".

(to be completed)

i'm in paucartambo bitch! - LMFAO

The Random platypus is pleased to introduce to all of you the new and famous revolutionary stories that literally change the life of some of the IB Drama-fieles. They are not the chronicles of Narnia, nor the Chronicles of Riddik NAH NAH, this ones are much more interesting, with far more action, music, dancing, pizza, craziness and a LOT LOT of PLATYPUS. Staring, Vale Vela 130 “vao al Puente?”, Sandri “no estoy platypuseada”, Rodrigo “the Teddy Bear”,Diego “negrillos!? DONDE!?!, Felipe “el gringo phillip” and the old drama-fieles : Patty “the brichera” and Luciana “mira un avion” and finally our DT: SHURPERTOU!!!....be prepared for….

THE CHRONICLES OF PAUCARTAMBO

The Maq’ta, the Saqra and the platypus in excess.

Chapter 1: Turbulence at the Airport and the Long Climb to Paucartambo

Tuesday 14 th

6 am and I was already awake. Log on into msn and found vale online: ready for the TRIP!? Bring it on. Let’s make this part as a summary alright? We arrived late to the airport (well Rodrigo and YOU-KNOW-WHO did) and so we lost the plane. Rupert managed to buy some tickets and recover other ones and so finally we were in the plane heading towards Cusco, after 5 hours of “studying at the airport”. When we arrived to Cusco we met Martin, our guide for this trip, and we jumped into a van that took us to Paucartambo….the climb?! It was never-ending; we stopped for the daily PICHI-WALKING, and next stop….. Paucartambo.

We arrived to our 2 stars Hostal (primitiva’s) and we decided our rooms, well actually we all slept in one room (YEAH the five of us), there was the room especially for Vale’s and Sandra’s clothes, another one for Patty and Luciana and another one for Rupert. After that we went out to eat something decent. Paucartambo is not really a BIG town, so getting to the plaza only took us 5 seconds. Around the plaza is where the Guerrilla takes plaza. We then went to the Cathedral or Main Church and there felipe and the others ate their Anticuchito. We found a street that we named the DIAGON ALLEY, where we were expecting to find food but instead we found the Saqra’s house. In here vale and I we talked to the China Saqra (Milagros) and she told us a little bit about them and she even thought us how to dance like them. The saqras are the demons of the festival, however they still have a Demanda (a small box with a virgin inside). The saqras hide from the virgin. Milagros told us that for her to be The China she had to be daughter of Paucartambina, single and without sons/daughters. She presented herself to be the China for 26 years and she is dancing as such for another 6. The Caporal of the Saqras is dancing for 49 years. We also managed to see the Qollas, the Panaderos, the Waka Wakas practice their dances, and they were all different, however, we saw the even when they practice they are drunk.

We finally went to eat the PIZZAS SAKRA (yeah, not saqra…but Sakra) were we ate pizza for only 6 soles. (right next to the church just in case for you curious reader they have any kind of pizza, you name it, they make it). After that with no further partying we returned to our Hostal and rest. The real adventure started the next day.

FLASHFORWARD TO THE FUTURE!!!!!!

Friday 26th June!

today I was walking alone and suddenly the BACK TO THE FUTURE car appeared and so i took a ride to the future....to the day that we are planning to see "RESPIRA". But since this is a blog, I'm going to write in past tense ok?

So, We went in a crazy bus full of crazy people (but lacking a fish) to see a play called Respira de Eduardo Adrianzén, and once again i HATED the play. The only thing I said WOW AMAZING was the lighting. The effect of the light blue light upon the actors in order to creat the idea of Water was great and the other thing that i liked was the character of Jesus. He was comic enough and it gived a twist to the play.

The reason why I hated the play was becuase at some point i said, they just look people saying a random text. They were not acting, not even trying. Whenever they faught the other person over reacted, however this helped me a lot becuase I think I tend to do that, like roll my eyes, or do some things we do becuase we really don't know what to do. That happened to me in the play, I did the same thing and in my head i thought: was doing that convincing enough!? or am i being so medieval and LOOKING angry just to let people tell that i'm angry.....??? the answer...NO, it looks completely fake and it makes the audience lose conection with what the play.
The other thing i didn't like and still wont like until i'm proven wrong "THE STUPID PROJECTOR!!! why on earth do people like to ruin plays by adding the stupid projections onn walls, and videos and stuff!! that doesn't happen!!! that only shows you were not able to think another way to portray your idea and that's why you use technology! NO PEOPLE!! that kills the play instead!. And in the case of this play, I think that was a scenery problem. So, uhm to my question before!!! well...I think sometimes people tend to think wrong ideas about scenery, if it was complete or not! but is something is not right then IT WILL BE SEEN, trust me.

Ok so, the acting sucked, scenery REKETE sucked...the spinning thing...uhm was it really needed?!ah! the story of the dad..and mom!? wtF* ...what was that got to do with all the story!? I think it took importance from teh main plot...and really that was the part of the play that became boring! I wanted to know more about the son, not the sex life of his parents. The other thing i noticed and said "ROBERTO TOLD ME NOT TO DO" was that the actors tend to speak and give the back to the audience....A LOT......then I think what was not good was the direction, the actors just stood there doing literally nothing more than talk! talkt! and TALK! make some actions people! move! use your body!!! express yourselves!!!! (muevete san borja! muevete!!! corre Lola Corre!!!

In conclusion! another play that sucked!!! but this plays help you a lot in the sence of WHAT NOT TO DO. So I find out that, overacting....not good, and not acting...NOT GOOD AT ALL. at least move, don't stay there and speak! if that happens it will only be vomiting the text, so don't. But the problem that keeps poping into my head ...whay will you do if the only thing that's on stage is you and chair? I know the answer I guess.....but I want to see more examples of this situation in order to be able to fully answer.

BACK TO THE PRESENT m' boys!!!!