Thursday, 7 March 2013

Who are you as an artist, and why are you here?

Who are you as an artist?

Not another philosophical question.....  Such an open ended question.
As an artist, I am many things, or my goal is to be many things. Right now I am merely an actor, a nobody who reads great works and performs them for an audience. I try to do the piece justice, while adding my own spin to it. As everybody knows two actors will perform hamlet in very different ways. I am a performer, I sing, I dance and I act. All because I was born with the ability to do so, and I  love performing. As an artist I am a person doing what he loves.

What I want to be, is a writer, a director, a stage manager, a choreographer, a lighting manager.... even sound. I want to explore every avenue of theater there is, I want to figure out, as an artist, what I love doing the most, and what I am the best at doing.


Why are you here?

I am here because all the way through elementary school I partook in theater. I performed in a couple of plays and acted whenever I could. Then in MYP I took drama 3 years in a row, and loved every moment of it. Now I am in IB, trying to figure out what I want to do in life. Its not that the courses I chose are boring, its just that none of them really interest me, none of them make my head turn and go "Wow I want to know more!". Drama does that for me, it peaks my interest and makes the whole day worthwhile. I am here because I love the atmosphere the people of theater create, as well as theater itself.

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