" was , perversely, a fan-that is, a man possessed by the Gods ... Every profession has its own, but the theater guys are more demanding because they are most generous. Give everything and give nothing. On stage there is no middle ". Excerpted from the story The theater lover of Carlos Fuentes.
My story in the theater began in the ballet. As some of you reading this blog know, I was a dancer for two years as a child. While it was thin and stylish, he had the tenacity, perseverance and above all the flexibility you need a dancer. However, thanks to my last performance at the ballet was the witch in Sleeping Beauty, "I discovered acting talent that had hitherto hidden.
I think any other girl would have been disappointed with the very undesirable role of witch. However, I took care to take full advantage as I could. Grinning exaggerated, putting terrible and bad side of a perverse move my hands, proudly displaying artificial fingernails, long and black. I hardly danced at most took two or three laps. Everything was acting in that role.
was a teacher that told me and advised me to get involved in theater when he knew that deserting the ballet. I started in the school's theater group and I stayed. My first work was Improvisation soul of Eugene Ionesco, a work obviously absurd that I had the role of playwright clueless. The tests were hard, my relationship with the group was bad and my spirit waned with each passing day. However, no self left the theater as I did with the ballet and I got one explanation for that: I liked the theater too.
With this work I made my first presentation to a large audience. Was a success. Then come thieves are honest people Jardiel Enrique Ponce, which had the role of a mother exaggerated and annoying, and then participated in a very pale version Fame, which was the drama teacher, rigid and demanding that undertaken with the student who feigns to graciosito in class. In my last year in college I had the luxury of representing a character written by me. A colleague and I wrote a script in which I shape all my youth drama and my friend all the humor that characterized the work was a hybrid of ideas and concepts that I think was not so bad.
When I entered college, I abandoned any connection with the theater. Only until about six months ago I took up this activity due to a course of action and I realized that I did lack. Not only was I happy to be exploring all the possibilities that the theater offers, but I loved experiencing the main element of which he draws: passion. In the theater there that give everything and give nothing. Be generous, wasting talent, vitality and enthusiasm. Agree with the action, never with inertia. Leave everything on the table to minimize this wonderful food called ego applause. Feel, the verb that best combines with it and all artistic expressions.
Although again I'll take a break from my theatrical activities, I will not forget this lesson of passion because it also serves to everyday life. For life, if lived with passion, it becomes routine. It is pure magic, as the theater.
Joanna Ruiz Méndez
My story in the theater began in the ballet. As some of you reading this blog know, I was a dancer for two years as a child. While it was thin and stylish, he had the tenacity, perseverance and above all the flexibility you need a dancer. However, thanks to my last performance at the ballet was the witch in Sleeping Beauty, "I discovered acting talent that had hitherto hidden.
I think any other girl would have been disappointed with the very undesirable role of witch. However, I took care to take full advantage as I could. Grinning exaggerated, putting terrible and bad side of a perverse move my hands, proudly displaying artificial fingernails, long and black. I hardly danced at most took two or three laps. Everything was acting in that role.
was a teacher that told me and advised me to get involved in theater when he knew that deserting the ballet. I started in the school's theater group and I stayed. My first work was Improvisation soul of Eugene Ionesco, a work obviously absurd that I had the role of playwright clueless. The tests were hard, my relationship with the group was bad and my spirit waned with each passing day. However, no self left the theater as I did with the ballet and I got one explanation for that: I liked the theater too.
With this work I made my first presentation to a large audience. Was a success. Then come thieves are honest people Jardiel Enrique Ponce, which had the role of a mother exaggerated and annoying, and then participated in a very pale version Fame, which was the drama teacher, rigid and demanding that undertaken with the student who feigns to graciosito in class. In my last year in college I had the luxury of representing a character written by me. A colleague and I wrote a script in which I shape all my youth drama and my friend all the humor that characterized the work was a hybrid of ideas and concepts that I think was not so bad.
When I entered college, I abandoned any connection with the theater. Only until about six months ago I took up this activity due to a course of action and I realized that I did lack. Not only was I happy to be exploring all the possibilities that the theater offers, but I loved experiencing the main element of which he draws: passion. In the theater there that give everything and give nothing. Be generous, wasting talent, vitality and enthusiasm. Agree with the action, never with inertia. Leave everything on the table to minimize this wonderful food called ego applause. Feel, the verb that best combines with it and all artistic expressions.
Although again I'll take a break from my theatrical activities, I will not forget this lesson of passion because it also serves to everyday life. For life, if lived with passion, it becomes routine. It is pure magic, as the theater.
Joanna Ruiz Méndez
