What is Expressionism?

I think that expressionism is a way of art where the artist expresses emotions in radical ways. The video of the Japanese form of dance had a creeping and disturbing way of emotion through the body where as  in the operas you could hear the singers' pain in their voices. Expressionism seems like a form that is settling but more dynamic in the sense of death.
Also I had realized the haunting use of space in the performances. any prop being used was simple and also the colors that were used contributed to the feel or the performance. The dark light helped make the space either feel vast or small. Expressionism to me seems like a way of expressing emotions through a intense and torturing way.

STAC Live

Now with STAC live approaching it is amazing how different this show will be and all the prepping  is from last year. It is very interesting how a single thought can connect to all different videos, movies, and pictures. It seemed really difficult to find a connecting aspect between all of these different projects without changing the very project itself but to dream is the very core subject in all of these videos. Last year the prepping for Stac live was with all the dancing and more promoting the idea of stac, stac, stac. But it seems different this year since Stac live has became the chance for us students to really make what we want and weave it into each other. For example, I really wanted to make an installation this since I was able to make on last year without it turning half-bad. With all of the school regulations and rules against fire hazards it turned out to be quite difficult to go through with the original idea I had. I had spent two hours deciding on different ideas and every way they can or cannot work until a saw a picture on Ashley's laptop of a subway tunnel  with two people. So in that five or somewhat second I whipped out an idea that turned out to be the best one. Weird how things turn out but sometimes there is no need to over contemplate something.

STAC TRip : Cymbeline

I realized that a lot of Shakespeare's plays have difficult intertwining plots that all seem to make sense towards the end. As the king has said "Are there any more plots to unravel?". I had absolutely loved the play. It was really very difficult to understand in the beginning but every line the actor and actress's had were very intriguing . Also the way that the actor had played off of the audience member was different and they had all kept a fine line from including the audience and from acting like they weren't there.
I had also found so many aspects of Metamorphoses in the play. The way the sheets were used and the beginning speech with unwrapping the candy. I'm not sure if it is a coincidence or the aspects were copied. I remember that during the beginning of rehearsals for Metamorphoses Luke had said something about how you have to make it clear when you are changing characters. During the play you could tell which person the actors and actresses were being. They did not have to even change costume, you could just tell from the essence of how they acted. I loved the play and grown to admire it more since Metamorphoses. 

Hanna

Hanna was very different from the rest of the American films that I watch but I could never really put my finger about what was different. I feel as if the just the way the movie was shot and the plot is different then American films. In American films there tend to be closure but in Hanna the closure was killing Marissa but it never showed how Hanna would turn out. Maybe it is the fact that there is a different type of closure in European films then American.

Another thing that I have realize occur in Hanna is that the movement of the actors are beautiful and graceful. When Eric had gotten trapped underground, the fluid action of the last two attackers was in such a grace that it looked like just one solid movement. when the bullets strike the man and the knife that hit the other man so quick it seemed effortless. Also I feel as if when Hanna is with the family see almost becomes more a humane nature and she gets to reach a side of her that she has never grew up with. But after the Dwarf gets her you start to see the switch and the fact that she cannot lose the person she was trained to be.

Dada Feist

Wow! All of the Dada performances were great. I loved the performance group and the dance. I think that the Dada performance seems to really have a message behind everything. I loved how they managed to incorporate Ring Around the Rosie into a message behind all of the acting. The message I got from the whole act was that anybody different had to to be "fixed" or could not be different. That it wasn't accepted in society to be different. OH I just had the whole thought in my head but I forgot. But overall I loved the whole concept of the act. I feel that everyone had incorporated their own definition of Dada making it Dada.

First STAC trip of the year

I was actually skeptical about how this trip would turn out considering how we have so many people this year. I can most definitely say that I was starving by the time we got to the Whitney. I found the sculpture center to be odd but also it didn't need art works in every corner. The building didn't have many artworks but the ones that they did have were interesting. I most definitely loved how some of the artworks were hidden or just very subtle. When the swings started moving above us it was so creepy because you expect there to be a person. I think that the people there have really used the building to its advantage.
For the rest of the trip I wish we would have had more time but despite that I found that the show was amazing. It was also so genius that they can still tell the story with only stage directions. The way they used props were also very simple and it got the point across. I fount the show to be hilarious and I really want to go see part 2.

Dada is what?

I think that Dada is something no one would really get the concept of. It is art but anti-art.
So when we were in stac art I was wondering how to make something dada. But then realized that Dada isn't always planning something, From what I get from it Dada is just a spur of what you feel like doing. Just doing what pops into your mind but doesn't serve a purpose.

With acting with the hat the next day it scared me to see how it would affect people. everyone took it a different way and I guess it hurts to see your friends that are so strong even get bother by it. A hat. A hat is what it takes to bother the people you think are so strong. The hat is what has gotten me so embarrassed and ashamed. Ashamed of being a hypocrite to my sister and not being a better role model I can be. Walking into her room to take something.  Everything I do she copies and I hate that she is turning to me like me. I think the reason why I yell at her or try to hurt her feelings is because I see myself when I look at her. I'm trying to hurt myself when I see her. I love her But I can never tell her because I don't want to be weak to her. I can't tell her what I feel without feeling weak. So every time I hurt her I hate myself for turning her into me. wow, the hat never really affected me but when I am writing this and thinking it hurts a lot. I hurts to see what I avoid.
But bottom line, everything just hurts.