Prompt #1: While the play begins with Oedipus holding an assembly to discuss the plague which torments his people, his story begins many years prior. His tumultuous life is full of questions and ambiguity which no doubt shape him into the person he is when we are introduced to him. When he is a young man a sprout of doubt creeps into his mind, like a weed, pesky, bothersome, and impossible to kill. “One day at table, a fellow who had been drinking deeply Made bold to say I was not my father’s son
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ballet music. In the beginning of this performance, my friends and I noticed smoke coming from the light fixtures. We thought it was an electrical problem that was going
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Commedia Dell Arte (comedy of actors) is an Italian form of theatre which involves the use of stock characters each with distinctive personalities, costumes and character traits for example Harlequin, Pantaloon and Perrott . It usually involved actors improvising upon a stimuli. It was increasingly popular throughout Europe in the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Many playwrights incorporated this theatre form and the stock characters into their own plays for example, Shakespeare. There were
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were even white! The atmosphere that the ballet blanc created was not only sweet but soft. The lighting was soft and music was sweet. Some examples of ballet blanc would be the performance of La Sylphide, act two and Giselle. I chose to watch and write about the video on Coppelia by the Royal Ballet. The performance took place on a stage in a theater. The lighting was darker, but where the two main dancers were on stage it was more lighted so you could see them more clearly. On the stage there
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Participating in art is beneficial for any person young or old. Whether they are on stage or behind the scenes every contribution uses creativity to enhance the performance. Acting on stage challenges your mind & body to outwardly express your emotions, taking your character & fully submerging yourself in the story. Without your tech team, the show loses flare & little details that enrich your production. Working
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The Beatles are not typically associated with orchestra music, but due to George Martin and the North Carolina Symphony’s performance, I was able to experience the classical side of The Beatles live. In Raleigh’s Memorial Hall, Saturday, April 23rd, I attended the Classical Mystery Tour, which was accompanied by the North Carolina Symphony. The performance featured the Classical Mystery Tour, which is a cover band for The Beatles, that played over thirty revolutionary songs. The North Carolina Symphony
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overpowered the rest of the band in measures 98 through 102. The trumpets also overplayed the band in Jared Barnes’ Adventum during measures 29 through 35. The lack of balance lead to individuals sticking out, which diminished the impact of the performance. Although the Wind Ensemble had good intonation throughout the majority of the concert, there were a few areas that were not as solid as they could have been. For example, the cord in Jared Barnes’ Adventum in measure 15 contained wrong notes in
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his plays enjoyable to his diverse audience by making them relatable. Hamlet’s speech in Act 4 Scene 4 is one that does exactly that. It can relate to its various listeners, but still be interpreted differently by each one. The original Hamlet performance was astounding to the Elizabethan audience
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A sport, an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another for entertainment. When you hear these words, many of you may think of baseball, basketball, football, or volleyball, but there is one more sport that may not have crossed your mind, dance. Dance is not considered a sport by many people because they believe ballet is an art rather than a sport, but there are many reasons why I think it should qualify as both. Though dance may look
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On Monday, march 12 2018, at about 7:30pm I attended a musical concert at Chabot college in building 1300. The concert was tithe “Chabot wind symphony”. It was a concert that was conjoined with Chabot wind ensemble and Tennyson high school jazz ensemble, Patricia Hurtado was the director of Tennyson High School while Beverly Johnson was the director of Chabot wind ensemble. Tennyson high school jazz ensembles and the instrument they played were, CLARIENT, which was played by Charles Hingco
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