Problem posing assignment: Nostalgia and Possiblity
Chosen Place: Performing Arts Center Room 1721 Rehearsal Space
Define: a room made and used for performance, rehearsal, and class. A space for creative exploration and creation
Problem:
How do we understand a place that is both familiar and unfamiliar? How do we combine our nostalgia for the past and the possibility and opportunity of the future?
The Performing Arts Center recently underwent renovations and additions. Spaces I have worked in since I arrived at Grand Valley are gone or different and there are new spaces to explore, like room 1721. Room 1721 has many similarities to the previous rooms and spaces, but is different and the adjustment changes how I work, for better or worse.
Other theatre students have had a similar struggle, others have never worked in a different space.
The space is both familiar, most rehearsal rooms have similar features, and new territory to be explored. How does my voice sound in the space? How does the lighting effect the mood of the piece being rehearsed or performed? Does this floor make my shoes click? Is the floor soft enough to do a shoulder roll? All of these questions are ones an actor asks when using a new space. The room is unexplored, a new adventure, but i still find myself missing old spaces where I already knew the answers.
This problem is solved by making this space familiar. Making new memories and answering all the questions.
I want to add elements of the familiar and the strange to the space to emphasize the struggle between the two in the space. Making the viewer feel that dichotomy of the contrasting feelings.
Define: a room made and used for performance, rehearsal, and class. A space for creative exploration and creation
Problem:
How do we understand a place that is both familiar and unfamiliar? How do we combine our nostalgia for the past and the possibility and opportunity of the future?
The Performing Arts Center recently underwent renovations and additions. Spaces I have worked in since I arrived at Grand Valley are gone or different and there are new spaces to explore, like room 1721. Room 1721 has many similarities to the previous rooms and spaces, but is different and the adjustment changes how I work, for better or worse.
Other theatre students have had a similar struggle, others have never worked in a different space.
The space is both familiar, most rehearsal rooms have similar features, and new territory to be explored. How does my voice sound in the space? How does the lighting effect the mood of the piece being rehearsed or performed? Does this floor make my shoes click? Is the floor soft enough to do a shoulder roll? All of these questions are ones an actor asks when using a new space. The room is unexplored, a new adventure, but i still find myself missing old spaces where I already knew the answers.
This problem is solved by making this space familiar. Making new memories and answering all the questions.
I want to add elements of the familiar and the strange to the space to emphasize the struggle between the two in the space. Making the viewer feel that dichotomy of the contrasting feelings.
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