The Is A Strange Process

I remember getting prepared for the show today, and I recollect dripping in sweat because I was anxious to perform in a sold-out show. This caused my hands to perspire more, making it nearly impossible to hold on to my bar. My parents, Beatrice and Alonzo Moss, had already given me a talk about how I could not let them down, and that the future of the circus depended on this show. Feeling an immense amount of pressure, I knew that I still had to go out there. Walking into the tent, I could feel the anticipation of the crowd, and I decided to make my way to my bars like I had done a

From an early age, I loved to perform. Being the youngest girl with three older brothers, I could never get enough attention; This meant singing, dancing and being extremely outgoing to get everyone’s eyes on me. I still hear stories about my younger self dancing in front of mirrors, babbling about my dream of being a “star”. It wasn’t until much later, however, that I found I could put my love of performing to use.

As I sat enveloped in her story of overcoming conclusions, she taught my heart to embrace each quirky part of myself. I identified with Elle Woods’ need to prove herself. This idea of accepting individuality provided me with the courage to audition for my first show, the Arvada Center’s production of Footloose. Since that first nerve-racking, nail-biting experience, I have come to find myself through each move I dance onstage. Getting my first big role, the Dragon in a production of Shrek, I poured my heart out, knowing the people ready to judge and mock were watching. After the show, the peers who judged my intelligence approached me, saying things like, “I never knew you could sing like that.” Through performing I found myself again. I shifted back to the girl I was, the girl who cared about her morals. I want to perform, hoping to provide audience members with the ability to connect with characters who can offer them a point of realization, as Elle Woods did for me.

I never took myself as much of an actress, even though I chose the role. Every day, I go in the dressing room and put on my costume. My hair and makeup were done, and it’s show time. The bright spotlight comes directly onto me. The curtains open and it begins. I give the performance of a lifetime. It’s amazing how much the audience believes the story they’re being told. They’re gullible, but they’re not dumb. They know when the show goes sideways and that’s when they begin to ask questions. As always, I reassure them nothing is wrong, and the act is a hit. The curtains close, I return to my dressing room, and I take off the costume. I wish I could give the role back.

In life, there are undoubtedly going to be a handful major events that may affect you in a really major way and change who you are as a person. But that’s it, there really is only a handful. The rest of the pleasure and enjoyment in life comes from the small moments. These moments aren’t necessarily awe-inspiring or mind-boggingly complex, but they put a little pep in your step or may cause you to think about something in a slightly different way. I think that’s what you have to focus on when you are performing for an audience. You need to create those moments for them, like ChiPs did for me, where I am still quoting a line from the show a week later to one of my good friends that I went with. The little moments are what matter; the little moments are what you remember. The little moments just may be a big deal after

Standing on an empty stage brings a different feeling to an actor than it would have to the audience. The midnight curtains swaying from the soft breeze through the holes in the ceiling, and the vast open space that can immediately be turned into another world carrying you away from reality. For me, being an actor, brings a sense of home and peacefulness. It's where I belong. But it didn’t start off this way. I entered my junior year with my sights on engaging in theatre more but was sadly hindered from continuing. I had all my classes set, but theatre hadn't managed to fit into it. How could I grow as an actor when the only knowledge I was getting were constructing sets and being in shows? I wasn’t getting the experience to learn about the history of theatre or techniques that would allow me to grow as an actor. So I sat back, riding my way through junior year anxiously waiting till my second semester to change my classes and anticipating the annual musical auditions. I will never forget the day the cast list for the musical came in. I was lying on my bed around

As I arrived to the theater, many memories came flooding back to my mind of my times being on stage. But that day was not another day on stage; it was a day in the audience. I was at the theater to help Impact Dance Theater with their winter show. When I walked into the lobby, I saw my teacher and the others standing around waiting to be told what to do. About the time I walked to them another volunteer came over as well. “Today you guys will be ushers” the volunteer said “I need some of you to scan tickets and some to hand out programs.” I was one of usher's who would be scanning tickets. We waited about another 20 minutes in the lobby before told where we would be at. The manager of the theater walked over to us with a pleasant smile. “Thank you so much” she stated “We will go over the rules the theater has and then I will tell you where to go.” Once she told us the rules and where we would be, we received our usher badges and when on our way.

Step four: It’s show time, finally, after six weeks of rehearsals, its go time! Now it’s normal to get nervous before shows, but don’t get so nervous that you stress yourself out. Here’s a few things, you can do to calm yourself down, so that your performance is amazing. Make sure that all your props are where they should be, all of your costumes are in order and ready for you to throw on, and make it back on stage on time. Go over all your lines only once before you get in your starting place so it’s fresh in your mind.

The house lights went down, as did the backstage lights, and the stage lights came on. There really is an exhilarating feeling being backstage while only the stage lights are on. At first there is anyway. I was scheduled to perform near the end of the show, I want to say I was third from last. So I got the pleasure I standing backstage for a lot of show. I talked to a lot of the other performers about how they felt, if they were nervous, that sort of thing. I encouraged some of them to, not that I wasn’t nervous myself. I was able to watch most of the others perform and I remember thinking that I almost felt proud for them about how good they were at their talent, and trying to picture myself doing some of the things they did. “This Being-with-one-another dissolves one’s own Dasein completely into the kind of Being of “the Others,” in such a way, indeed, that the Others, as distinguishable and explicit, vanish more and more” (Heidegger, pg. 124). How talented they all were in their own trade made me kind of want to do it myself, and it also made me realize how different my performance would be from anyone

The story of my life up until now would consist of me always performing as a child; I always told myself and others that I was born to perform. Even in the womb, I must have been just waiting to come out, to burst onto the world's stage doing a tap time step going hop, step, falap, step, shuffle, hop, step, falap, step. Entertaining others when I'm on stage gives my body an unearthly feeling of contentment, joy, and most of all love. However, it took me awhile and a few tries to figure out how to actually achieve my goal of becoming a musical theatre performer and knowing the steps to further my education in the craft. With my education from Holy Cross High School and my training at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) I have learned

We stayed late at school every night making the play even better than it was the night before with the help of Mr. Nulik. We knew that schools around the country would be shooting for the same goal that we were; to perform at the International Thespian Festival. We also knew that only 10 schools would make it so we did our best to outwork every single one. As an orange I thrive on competition and I’ve been a very competitive person from when I was little. I was always competing in several different sports from the time I was 5 to now, but I had never wanted to win something so badly. I was ready to go on stage and give the judges one of the best shows they’ve ever seen. I would tell you I wasn’t nervous, but I try my best not to lie. I was nervous, just not as nervous as some of my castmates. The reason I was not as nervous is because I am very comfortable in front of people or up on stage because I am a natural entertainer. Coincidentally, that is a characteristic of orange. When performing, it seemed everything was going great until the speaker started to not function like it was supposed to. My castmates looked at me for what to do, but I, like them, was taken by surprise at its malfunction. Not knowing what to do but knowing that the show must go on, I started to fiddle with the speaker and microphone whilst staying in character. Luckily being resourceful is

As a quiet and shy freshman, I was convinced by one of my close friends to audition for Hairspray, the musical that the school was performing that year. I soon fell in love with performing and found myself participating in every production put on by my school. I also picked up an interest in dance and often put together routines that I performing at “showcases,” mini talent shows hosted by my school. Performing became an essential piece of my identity, and more importantly, led me to become the outgoing person I am

While working on stage and off, one of the biggest traits that theatre experience has given me is confidence. Participating

It was two weeks before the concert. My foot was always tapping the beat in class while my arm was always moving around like I was holding the bow. Every day of the week I was practicing, practicing, practicing. During private lessons I made sure my fingers played with perfect intonation on every note. As the concert came closer I knew that if I made one tiny mistake, it would throw Evan and Ms. Mullins completely off. The performance would also be recorded for eternity on both phones of my parents’.

In the process of the LAUNCH Cycle, I am on step step three and four. The reason for this, is because stage fright hits people differently and the reaction of their body is different too. On step three (Look,Listen and Learn), this step seems to be a bit complicated because there are many reasons why people get stage frights and trying to get people to be themselves on stage is challenging. For example, maybe people have insecurities about themselves whether it's physically of mentally. The idea of people being insecure physically can be hard because maybe they don't like how they look or act in front of an audience. Also the mental part ties with the physical part because once that person doesn't like how they look or act they intend