KIOSKOTAMBO

Description: This week we did our Kioskotambo presentation, which lasted 3 days long. I found out that the difference from our presentation and the Paucartambo one were really different, not because we are not as Paucartambo (and we don't have all the comparsas and all that), but because of the relationship/connection between the audience and the actors.

Analysis & Connections: First of all, the presentation started on wednesday, which was kind of our entrada, like in Paucartambo the first day, we would protest against the kiosk and then leave. The second day we stole the candies from the kiosk and then leave eating them. And the third day we started on the theatre 'eating the candies' and then giving out the candies to our audience like in the Bosque of Paucartambo.
When you go to the Paucartambo celebration of 'La virgen del Carmen' the majority of people know the story, and the tradition, either because it is theirs culture or because (like us) have study the tradition. In this case nobody knows about Paucartambo (or very little people know), therefore they do not understand, the comparsas or the characters we were. And so many people didn't understand about the play we performance those three days, many people kept on asking me what was it about, and I had to explain it all. In Paucartambo you follow the comparsas, because you want to know what they are going to do, the audience follows the play. But in Kioskotambo we had to attract the audience, we chose our 'stage' in the kiosk because we know lots of people go there and therefore we would catch their attention.We go to our audience, and we try to capture them with our actions. We try to built a relationship, but to what extend did this work for our kioskotambo presentation? 

Reflexion: Trying to make a play with Andean Theatre convenctions is very difficult. So my question is what could make it better? what would make the audience engage? and understand the play? do we need to tell the basics of paucartambo and give a little summary before the presentation? what do we need to do in order to create the relationship that in the festival is created?

PPP - TPPP

Description: This week we talked about the P.P.P for the Paucartambo performance and the T.P.P.P for the final exam.

Analysis: regarding the PPP, we talked about the Paucartambo celebration performance that we are going to do in school, we did the report, the last part of the PPP. We did this about cultural and traditional influences, and I did the part of the social problem, the relationship between the society and their problems and how this is going to be used in our performance, as the audience which will be the society relates to the problem we will be protesting against: the high prices of the kiosk, in this way the audience connects with the play and finds it more interesting to see.

We  also talked about the TPPP, (theatre performance and production presentation), this test will be an oral test with a power point, in here first we need to choose what we want to say, develop our we’ve learned this year and we will be taking notes from our blogs which is scary.  This will contain 10 slides with 10 images in each. We NEED to have a picture about: shadow queendom, the puppet workshop, A matter of dissection, and the Paucartambo celebration. We need to take into account the three important areas for the oral exam: STRUCTURE, ACTING & DESIGN.  We need to put what we’ve learned , the roles we’ve played, the production tasks we’ve done and so on. We need to focus in 4 important thing: ANALYSIS, SYNTHESIS, REFLECTION AND APPLIED RESEARCH, as we will be marked with this criteria.

ANALYSIS -> we need flair imagination and clarity. A complete understanding of the structure, acting and design and how do they apply. We need to evaluate; refer to the other plays we’ve seen, linking the knowledge with the plays.

SYNTHESIS -> how do the elements (acting, structure and design) work together? How does this element help to create something?

REFLECTION -> perception, objective and considered critical response to our work and the work of others. CONNECTIONS!

APPLIED RESEARCH -> shows that you know, a theorical exploration of the different areas of performance and production.

Connections: talking about the TPPP, our final test made me think about the real one that we will be doing next year, and how important is it to analyse and thing everything . we need to be able to make a lot of research and to think critically to analyse.

Reflection: I know there are steps to analyse, but somehow I can analyse, I don’t reflect well enough, and it may be because I normally don’t go that deep, but how can I really reflect? And analyse?