DI Year 2-1st meeting

For our first official DI meeting I could not attend, but I made sure that I was there in spirit. I told my team to call me if they had any questions for me or needed my input on a decision. Given the circumstances I saw this as the best way for me to communicate with the team. We decided that we were going to do a plot based on the college application process. There was discussion of having me as the main character. I would personally enjoy being the main character since I have never done a "major" role in DI before so that I can tackle a more challenging role in the future.

Tai Chi - New year New perspective

I missed about a month of Tai Chi, but thankfully I had not missed much. My instructor and I talked about new ways for me to get closer to mastering the form. I focused on my breathing mostly. I originally thought that focusing on my breath as I moved through the form would have no effect, but to my surprise as I paced my breathing my balance improved and I found that moves which had caused me trouble before are now as easy as the first moves I learned when I first started. The hardest part was finding a breathing pattern that made me feel comfortable, but that came with time and practice.

Looking Back on Dino

Learning outcome 1. Perhaps my greatest sign of growth was in my improv skills, which one year ago I couldn't do to save my life. Twice in the performances there was an incident that required me in particular to Improv my way through until the scene could go back on track. My directors commented that in both instances the Improv was fluid enough that the mood of the scene was not broken and no one broke character, which are great assets to have as an actor.

Learning outcome 4. Evan and I had great chemistry on stage, which was largely do to our close friendship off-stage. The mutual trust and collaboration that we had in developing our characters greatly effected our relationship with the other character, but also added an interesting friendship dynamic to the show which was only seen in one other pair of characters, Pat and Sylvia, but their characters were shyer which lead to a more interpretive friendship while ours was more explicit. Thanks to my real life friendship with Evan as well as my high comfort level in the other Actors on stage I was able to work very well with others with no actual incident. This has helped my teamwork skills tremendously since I have struggled in the past with collaboration due to my stubborn desire to be independent. With any other group I would have most likely been uncooperative due to the aforementioned reason.