I am Bloggable
Finally, after weeks of waiting, I can blog. For those of you who don't know, I have never done this before, so please go easy on me. Be gentle, it's my first time...
I'm even more compelled to blog (I'm loving this word) today after having such a wonderful session. In fact in all the previous sessions, I have learnt a lot from all of you - as a person who assists the session, as an actor observing the session, as a peer joining the session and as an audience watching such raw passion transform into fragments of what is theatre.
Over the weeks, each one of you have evolved and begin to discover your own abilities at your own pace. I realize this has been pretty remarkable since we only meet very limited hours and tardiness just makes the time shrink. After the session today, I hope all of you could release some worries and tension that has been in your mind since we started. I was pretty happy to hear you all share your problems. Happy because ALL your worries are common and that means you all are normal. I would be worried if you guys aren't nervous, insecure or unfocused. I know we didn't really spend enough time, but whatever we had, I hope it helped. I hope what we told each other helped. I think that talk benefited us all - so we shall try to include more of that.
Now, let me make some sense.
Today's session got me to thinking about how wonderful this program is. Here we have a group of energetic, talented individuals; each with their own talent and armed with another hidden talent waiting to be given the sspace to express it. We saw that tonight with Michael and his guitar. Mesmerising us with his sweet raspy voice and honest strums on his guitar. To me, that was a moment I will remember. It was a 'moment' because as he sang, I looked around the room and realized that we were at that point a unit. Completely warm and bonded with each other, just like the chocolate scented cooled wax. Michael - listen to Victor, he knows his shit.
But for me, in that moment sitting in that dark room, it didnt matter if you hit the wrong key or whatever. Like I told you, it was such an honest moment that I was truly honoured to be part of. I was inspired and felt the need to create something. And its moments EXACTLY like this that keeps me doing theatre. Because during that moment, be it a nanosecond or an hour - you touched your audience (me at least) and moved him to want to create something as well. On top of that, you changed the entire atmosphere assisted only by a sweedish amber glow. I hope you realize what it meant to some of us. Thanks for sharing it with us.
I'm romanticizing - I know. But pretty pictures aside, I feel good about this group. I hope you feel the same way too.
Moving right along, ehem ehem...
I would like to know from all of you if you would like me to repeat any of the exercises that I have facilitated. As some of you might now, there is a strong possibility that I am leaving in about 3 weeks time. That means, I only have a few more sessions with you guys. I would like to give you as much time as I can to facilitate. Extra hours to do some exercises, either new or otherwise, just so I know you guys have a deeper understanding on the work we've done. I am more inclined to organize a more spiritual exercises to assist you in relaxing your body and mind, finding the center, and exploring your creative potential etc. If you guys recall the one session we did a relaxation exercise followed by finding the center of the body. I feel this exercise is worth repeating now and throughout the period of the program.
I also would like to explore the idea of infusing shamanism and theatre. It's not as crazy as it sounds, but from my experience, it can potentially unlock blockages and unleash your hidden emotions. Wah - like terrer like that! But seriously, it uses the idea of chakra points on your body and retrieving emotions at each points. I will get into the details if you guys are interested.
To explore all this I propose:
Do another after-session session like today and anyone can stay and join. We can do internal exercises to help with focus, internalization, keeping in energy and finding the center. Also, we can do problem-specific acting games to help you guys to get comfortable with the stage. We can also go crazy and drink from the same mug Azhar drank from...
Or we can just sit and talk. Or hear another of Michael's composition.
So, adik adik, that's all I have to say. I wanted to say a whole lot more as I was driving back home just now but I guess my brain is already on shut down.
Take care, have a great weekend and stay sane.
ghafir
I'm even more compelled to blog (I'm loving this word) today after having such a wonderful session. In fact in all the previous sessions, I have learnt a lot from all of you - as a person who assists the session, as an actor observing the session, as a peer joining the session and as an audience watching such raw passion transform into fragments of what is theatre.
Over the weeks, each one of you have evolved and begin to discover your own abilities at your own pace. I realize this has been pretty remarkable since we only meet very limited hours and tardiness just makes the time shrink. After the session today, I hope all of you could release some worries and tension that has been in your mind since we started. I was pretty happy to hear you all share your problems. Happy because ALL your worries are common and that means you all are normal. I would be worried if you guys aren't nervous, insecure or unfocused. I know we didn't really spend enough time, but whatever we had, I hope it helped. I hope what we told each other helped. I think that talk benefited us all - so we shall try to include more of that.
Now, let me make some sense.
Today's session got me to thinking about how wonderful this program is. Here we have a group of energetic, talented individuals; each with their own talent and armed with another hidden talent waiting to be given the sspace to express it. We saw that tonight with Michael and his guitar. Mesmerising us with his sweet raspy voice and honest strums on his guitar. To me, that was a moment I will remember. It was a 'moment' because as he sang, I looked around the room and realized that we were at that point a unit. Completely warm and bonded with each other, just like the chocolate scented cooled wax. Michael - listen to Victor, he knows his shit.
But for me, in that moment sitting in that dark room, it didnt matter if you hit the wrong key or whatever. Like I told you, it was such an honest moment that I was truly honoured to be part of. I was inspired and felt the need to create something. And its moments EXACTLY like this that keeps me doing theatre. Because during that moment, be it a nanosecond or an hour - you touched your audience (me at least) and moved him to want to create something as well. On top of that, you changed the entire atmosphere assisted only by a sweedish amber glow. I hope you realize what it meant to some of us. Thanks for sharing it with us.
I'm romanticizing - I know. But pretty pictures aside, I feel good about this group. I hope you feel the same way too.
Moving right along, ehem ehem...
I would like to know from all of you if you would like me to repeat any of the exercises that I have facilitated. As some of you might now, there is a strong possibility that I am leaving in about 3 weeks time. That means, I only have a few more sessions with you guys. I would like to give you as much time as I can to facilitate. Extra hours to do some exercises, either new or otherwise, just so I know you guys have a deeper understanding on the work we've done. I am more inclined to organize a more spiritual exercises to assist you in relaxing your body and mind, finding the center, and exploring your creative potential etc. If you guys recall the one session we did a relaxation exercise followed by finding the center of the body. I feel this exercise is worth repeating now and throughout the period of the program.
I also would like to explore the idea of infusing shamanism and theatre. It's not as crazy as it sounds, but from my experience, it can potentially unlock blockages and unleash your hidden emotions. Wah - like terrer like that! But seriously, it uses the idea of chakra points on your body and retrieving emotions at each points. I will get into the details if you guys are interested.
To explore all this I propose:
Do another after-session session like today and anyone can stay and join. We can do internal exercises to help with focus, internalization, keeping in energy and finding the center. Also, we can do problem-specific acting games to help you guys to get comfortable with the stage. We can also go crazy and drink from the same mug Azhar drank from...
Or we can just sit and talk. Or hear another of Michael's composition.
So, adik adik, that's all I have to say. I wanted to say a whole lot more as I was driving back home just now but I guess my brain is already on shut down.
Take care, have a great weekend and stay sane.
ghafir
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