Representational Art Reflection

August 28, 2017, the first day of my fresh and scary journey. My first day as a Colorado Christian University student, English composition online is my first class. Part of me is ready; part of me is ready to throw in the towel. I hadn’t even had a chance to turn a paper in, and the first assignment, a 5-paragraph essay had me thinking “you’re a crazy person for going back to school, it’s been 11 years since you had to write a paper. What are you thinking?” I told myself its 5 weeks (later I would realize actually 6) you can make it 5 weeks! Although I knew writing wouldn’t be my easiest subject, I knew I had to try my hardest. This class was condensed and hard, but effective and informative; I’ve learned so much, felt all sorts of emotions and know I can apply what I’ve learned in classes to come.

The dramatic arts have had great influence on my life and on my perspective of the world. Through this artistic expression, I can take on any persona, freeing both my mind and my heart. The understanding of people’s actions and emotions has shaped me into the young woman I am. Performance and the study of performing, I find, are enlightening, priceless, and eternal. So long as life persists, the timeless themes found in plays and works will persist.

Above all, I wouldn’t be where I am today without theatre. Without the chance to perform throughout my life, I would be disconnected from the wide array of communities and histories that’s been imbedded in my daily routine. Unfortunately, it’s speculated that the theatre is a dying art form, because of the expanding popularities of movies (“Is”), but I think that it’ll remain a well renowned part of expressing imagination and interpreting history as years pass; it only takes cooperation with school faculty and young students that go above and beyond to change their

I do not recall learning about reflective practice in my undergraduate studies. Reflective practice according to Barbour (2013), “is the cyclic process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, existing knowledge, and experience; resulting in a changed conceptual perceptive and practice” (p. 7). According to Barbour (2013), reflective process has many positive outcomes to help guide the nurse to become an expert nurse that can make on the spot decisions that do not interrupt patient care. I feel that reflective practice would have been beneficial to help guide me from a student nurse to a practicing nurse with critical thinking skills.

Theatre allows a significant message to be portrayed and convicted to many different people in many unexpected ways. Director Moises Kaufman has helped shaped the world of theatre with his unique outlook from an anthropologist’s form of theoretical framework. Kaufman’s distinctive productions give the people in the audience a new form of relatable scenarios through his directing of deep dialogue. The I AM THEATRE video enlightened me with numerous facts and interesting elements that Kaufman has instituted during his directing life. Kaufman has been awarded numerous awards including one of the most prestigious honors, known as the Tony Award, which recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. Speaking to one’s life experiences through theatre can be a major breakthrough for people like Kaufman. Using the I AM THEATRE video, this essay will offer a brief overview of director, Moises Kaufman, and enlighten his idea that theatre offers much more than what is expected.

The first art piece that I’m going to be discussing is a theatrical production that has a special place in my heart, and it is the Jakarta Performing Arts Community’s rendition of the hit Broadway play, ‘Fame.’ The reason why this piece is so important to me is because it was the first ‘real deal’ production that I’ve meddled in, and was the first production that I was appointed stage manager of. The play itself has a great message and great tunes, to be honest. I really like this play because it’s so naturally high school, the problems are so realistic that it almost didn’t feel like it was some sort of a make believe, and it also addressed things that are so simple yet are so scarcely discussed.

Through this process it is my great joy to elicit compassion from an audience. The impact theatre can have on people’s lives is why I want to major in acting. Theatre inspires me and I want to pursue a career that will

Art, I was planning on discussing this with you this week. With you out tending to far more important issues, I am going to include Janene in the discussion right away as this is an issue that will likely need to be discussed at her level or above and we should get the discussion started sooner rather than later.

The relationship with my patient was built upon communication. As my patient didn’t speak much English, I was able to speak to him throughout clinical in Spanish. The Spanish language was an imperative aspect of our relationship, being able to speak in this language allowed my patient to freely talk to me without difficulty. Our relationship was like a book, as each time I spoke with him about something new, I would be turning to a new page with a different passage being read. Each of these pages are read in Spanish, as I spoke to my patient in this language. The pages represent something I said in Spanish to my patient during clinical.

The essential question of my poetry is quite simple: Can we have a painting with context or even poetry with a painted visual? I felt the need to have context with painting or vice versa if you wanted to see and imagine what the author wanted. I understand that most authors want the reader to imagine what their story is, but I think some would like to related exactly from the reader to the author, and even to other readers and viewers. Think of it like this: Poetry with a picture. Almost as if we are bringing photos from our distant childhood story books but much more professional and the average 4 year old would not understand it. Having a deep meaningful painting that goes with either a poem, short story, or just a paragraph can spark more

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As we begin to wrap up this semester, I reflect on all the learning and achievements I have obtained thus far in the program. Throughout this semester, my communication and relational capacity has grown, driving me to break out of my comfort shell. At the beginning of this year I had wrote a letter to myself, outlining three goals that I wanted to achieve. The three goals were: work with a palliative client, become more assertive, and to integrate family care into my practice. I began the semester off in acute care, on the medical floor. During the second part of the semester, I was assigned to be in the first group of students to start the Trail Outreach Nursing. My new placement has created a new goal of increasing my communication

Theatre invites conversations, builds portals between cultures, and reveals the ordinarily unexplored, which is why I cherish every tickling second emerged in the theatre-making process. During my time at NYU, my theatre training points to a direction where I am way too familiar to be a stranger in. Growing up in China, where beauty remains hidden, pain untangled and emotion unspoken of, my physicality had remained a perfect mystery to me. At times of questioning my feelings during my acting training, I began to nurture a curiosity towards my own identity and the different cultures that I bore through over the short twenty years of my life. I continued to find myself mesmerized by this shared passion living among different cultures, that making theatre becomes more than just being the character but also being myself.

There are many reasons as to my enrollment into this advanced class, and these include my realization of political involvement being a fluid concept, constantly wanting to challenge myself, and recognizing that I need the necessary skills that advanced courses promote to succeed later in my life.

I think a goal of this piece was to send out a distress signal, I wrestled with how to do that. Ultimately, I landed on me becoming an abrasive version of myself. I wanted to illuminate facts about sides of pop culture than hadn’t been thought about while making apparent the frustrations that come with living in this world today. The thing with theatre that I wanted to exploit was the fact that you can make something