I love having good days!!!!
So...........I AM HAVING SUCH A GOOD WEEK!!!!
Okay so first of all, we finally got our first snow day at UArts since I have come here. We got like anywhere between 6 - 8 inches of snow. It was kind of crazy. It was so wonderful to finally have a day all to myself where I could just sit and relax. I didn't have rehearsal and I didn't even have to leave my house. It was kind of wonderful. Sometimes you just need to recharge.
Then I had Combat today and we were doing our midterm which is the first fight we do in the SAFD certification test we take at the end of the semester. It is a Shakespearean based fight scene that uses hand to hand and rapier and dagger. It's a really nice fight and me and my partner, Matteo, do the final fight between Hamlet and Claudius (I play Claudius). Well for the first time in all of my semesters of combat...I got an A. That would mean a reccomended pass in the certification test which is the best you can get. Even better was the fact that we got it because of how good the acting, agression, and sense of danger was in the fight. We had a few technical mishaps, but he really liked the fight as a whole. I only got two notes for the sword fighting portion which is the main part of the fight. Most of my notes on the hand to hand were for my partner...it just went really well and I finally got an A.
Then immediately after that, I had my sophomore evaluation. It went amazingly well. Ernie just said that things have been going well lately and I feel like I can tell you that because you won't let the quality of your work drop. He said I was really finding nice moments of vulnerability and that I was coming more into myself as an actor and as a person. It just felt so good to hear that. Then Janice, my crazy movement teacher, gave me a few notes on my tendency to have a soft collapse that is easily fixable and then she said I was one of the strongest members of the ensemble. She said I bring a really strong energy and a nic vulnerability to the work and...omg just writing this is making me so happy again. Oh goodness and D'Arcy...she was just like "you transcribe beautifully, you have a musicians ear, you have a beautiful voice...I just don't have anything bad to say." Even Janice jumped in on my voice and...it just feels so good to know that everything is falling into place and I am finally doing good work. I don't think I was too bad before, but my self esteem took so many hits when I only got one call back and...I just really love that I can do good work and that I can feel confident. I think it will only help my work improve.
So yeah...I feel kind of elated right now (I'm annoyed that elated is not one of the mood words).
Now to finish my theatre history midterm...later days!!!!
Okay so first of all, we finally got our first snow day at UArts since I have come here. We got like anywhere between 6 - 8 inches of snow. It was kind of crazy. It was so wonderful to finally have a day all to myself where I could just sit and relax. I didn't have rehearsal and I didn't even have to leave my house. It was kind of wonderful. Sometimes you just need to recharge.
Then I had Combat today and we were doing our midterm which is the first fight we do in the SAFD certification test we take at the end of the semester. It is a Shakespearean based fight scene that uses hand to hand and rapier and dagger. It's a really nice fight and me and my partner, Matteo, do the final fight between Hamlet and Claudius (I play Claudius). Well for the first time in all of my semesters of combat...I got an A. That would mean a reccomended pass in the certification test which is the best you can get. Even better was the fact that we got it because of how good the acting, agression, and sense of danger was in the fight. We had a few technical mishaps, but he really liked the fight as a whole. I only got two notes for the sword fighting portion which is the main part of the fight. Most of my notes on the hand to hand were for my partner...it just went really well and I finally got an A.
Then immediately after that, I had my sophomore evaluation. It went amazingly well. Ernie just said that things have been going well lately and I feel like I can tell you that because you won't let the quality of your work drop. He said I was really finding nice moments of vulnerability and that I was coming more into myself as an actor and as a person. It just felt so good to hear that. Then Janice, my crazy movement teacher, gave me a few notes on my tendency to have a soft collapse that is easily fixable and then she said I was one of the strongest members of the ensemble. She said I bring a really strong energy and a nic vulnerability to the work and...omg just writing this is making me so happy again. Oh goodness and D'Arcy...she was just like "you transcribe beautifully, you have a musicians ear, you have a beautiful voice...I just don't have anything bad to say." Even Janice jumped in on my voice and...it just feels so good to know that everything is falling into place and I am finally doing good work. I don't think I was too bad before, but my self esteem took so many hits when I only got one call back and...I just really love that I can do good work and that I can feel confident. I think it will only help my work improve.
So yeah...I feel kind of elated right now (I'm annoyed that elated is not one of the mood words).
Now to finish my theatre history midterm...later days!!!!