Where am I ? What skills do I posses ? How I developed this?
This is my first year as a student in the United Kingdom, I used to do Drama in my country as well, the educational system here, in the UK, impressed me, everything it's a lot more easier to understand, every single task that we receive, it's targeted, I know what I'm working for. I am happy that I can understand how every single step that our teachers guides us to take helps us to become the best version of ourselves as future actors. In the past two terms I feel like I gathered knowledge, I read "Uta Hagen" and Stanislavski's book: "An Actor's Work", these books taught me some acting techniques very useful for my future. I strengthened my confidence when I played my first two roles in this college, Antigone from the play "Antigone" by Sophocles and Medea from the play with the same name by Euripide, because after the performance I received a really good feedback from my teachers, colleagues and even from the audience. I become faster at learning lines and bringing emotions from the past in the moment, it's a lot more easier for me to work with other people or as an ensemble, I developed my sense of humour when I played Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing" and I learnt how to play a character that is older than me, with the role of Ranyevskaya from "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov. Right now I feel like I am in the right place to be, this experience helped me to realise how important acting is for me and how much I love this industry.
Areas
The feedback that I receive after every single performance from my teachers was that I have to improve my pronunciation, diction and projection but besides that, everything is good. I have to work harder on this, tongue twisters will help me and breathing exercises may help me as well.
The essence of performance for me is...
"Acting is behaving truthfully in imagined circumstances", this is my favourite way to say it. In my point of view, the essence of performance is when you look into the eyes of the audience and you are not afraid anymore, when you see in their eyes that they understand what's happening with your character, when the audience feels the same emotions as your character or as you want them to feel about the character. When you are passionate about it, work hard for it and do it for good purposes, not for fame or wealth, you'll find in yourself where this essence was hidden.
Pathways
I've been through a lot of changes since the first day I came to this college, I can say that some things may have changed. I still love to do acting, I am doing this since I was 11 years old, my biggest dream was to go to Hollywood and to learn from the place where the most beautiful movies were made, as I was growing up I started to realise that my dream was almost impossible and that not everyone can go there. The good part of this story is that I ended up in a better place than LA ! England, Shakespeare's home, I didn't liked him at the beginning but after I played the role "Beatrice" from "Much Ado About Nothing" I've changed my mind, I took the challenge and I feel like I won it because until the end I started to love working on Shakespeare. Now I know that there is no such thing as a boring role, the role depends on who makes it and how it does it. The only change that has been made is that I would rather choose to go university instead of drama school because I want to learn more than just acting, I'm also in love with film production and directing even if I know that my place is on the stage, also, I would love to be a part of the exchanging students programmes so I can see how people do acting in the other sides of the world.
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