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Jason Cohen
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Peter's biggest advice to us during orientation was to go see everything, and take advantage of all of the various performances and productions around us. The more pieces you see the more diverse of an artist you become. This is because you are exposing yourself to the world. When you do this you are not only supporting other artists, but also building your toolbox of techniques that work and don't work as well. Then when you are creating art in whatever medium you do, you can employ what you have seen and experience. I completely agree with this and encourage more students to go see live theater!
Because of the way that modern media is censored, this seems almost like a no brainer. Yes, we see the almost tragic feeling censorship of certain productions in school settings, but in general I feel as if there is an unapologetic sense to the stage that just can't be found anywhere else. We become so desensitized to human feeling that is represented on screens that we don't necessarily create a full emotional connection to the struggles or comedic realities of characters on our televisions. In the theatre, you're thrown right into the fray to sit toe-to-toe with other people that are going through those same emotions as you are, and those same emotions being represented on stage. It's a kind of situation that requires social awareness that you can't learn anywhere else but by being directly exposed to it. I think that there is great value in that.
This article comes across as though they just recently discovered this. But anyone could assume that this is true. Especially new students to Shakespeare. Reading Shakespeare and seeing Shakespeare are two different experiences. Reading it you get to create your world and seeing a performance you are taken to that world. Visual learning, mostly entertaining, always seem to be with best way to fully capture the understanding of the reading. Yes, the audience may not take in everything that happened in the performance, but watching a show vs. reading a summary seems to be the better call to understand a work of art.
"Plays were meant to be seen not read" this is something that teachers have been saying to me since sixth grade. Simply reading a play is not going to give you everything you need out of it or want out of it. It is so much more beneficial to actually go and see a production. There is also a difference from watching a movie version of a play then seeing it performed live. There is something missing when you are separated by a screen and not right up in the action of live theater. For me there is so much more emotion in live theater then there is in film or t.v. Being so close to the emotion and action gives you something so much more as a student. It does not surprise me that students do better after seeing live theater.
I think it makes perfect sense that theater would have such a powerful positive effect on students as it provides insight on human life, the human condition, thought and perspective all in a real tangible way. Unlike a book or movie, in theater we feel connected to the characters on a inert human level because they are living and breathing right infant of us. There are no barriers like in the pages of a book or the screen of film. Everything is presented to us in the fully fledged interactive reality we are all accustomed to. By transcending ideas and thoughts most commonly expressed on paper and bringing them into our own physical world theater gains the potency it has to really effect people.
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Peter's biggest advice to us during orientation was to go see everything, and take advantage of all of the various performances and productions around us. The more pieces you see the more diverse of an artist you become. This is because you are exposing yourself to the world. When you do this you are not only supporting other artists, but also building your toolbox of techniques that work and don't work as well. Then when you are creating art in whatever medium you do, you can employ what you have seen and experience. I completely agree with this and encourage more students to go see live theater!
Because of the way that modern media is censored, this seems almost like a no brainer. Yes, we see the almost tragic feeling censorship of certain productions in school settings, but in general I feel as if there is an unapologetic sense to the stage that just can't be found anywhere else.
We become so desensitized to human feeling that is represented on screens that we don't necessarily create a full emotional connection to the struggles or comedic realities of characters on our televisions. In the theatre, you're thrown right into the fray to sit toe-to-toe with other people that are going through those same emotions as you are, and those same emotions being represented on stage. It's a kind of situation that requires social awareness that you can't learn anywhere else but by being directly exposed to it. I think that there is great value in that.
This article comes across as though they just recently discovered this. But anyone could assume that this is true. Especially new students to Shakespeare. Reading Shakespeare and seeing Shakespeare are two different experiences. Reading it you get to create your world and seeing a performance you are taken to that world. Visual learning, mostly entertaining, always seem to be with best way to fully capture the understanding of the reading. Yes, the audience may not take in everything that happened in the performance, but watching a show vs. reading a summary seems to be the better call to understand a work of art.
"Plays were meant to be seen not read" this is something that teachers have been saying to me since sixth grade. Simply reading a play is not going to give you everything you need out of it or want out of it. It is so much more beneficial to actually go and see a production. There is also a difference from watching a movie version of a play then seeing it performed live. There is something missing when you are separated by a screen and not right up in the action of live theater. For me there is so much more emotion in live theater then there is in film or t.v. Being so close to the emotion and action gives you something so much more as a student. It does not surprise me that students do better after seeing live theater.
I think it makes perfect sense that theater would have such a powerful positive effect on students as it provides insight on human life, the human condition, thought and perspective all in a real tangible way. Unlike a book or movie, in theater we feel connected to the characters on a inert human level because they are living and breathing right infant of us. There are no barriers like in the pages of a book or the screen of film. Everything is presented to us in the fully fledged interactive reality we are all accustomed to. By transcending ideas and thoughts most commonly expressed on paper and bringing them into our own physical world theater gains the potency it has to really effect people.
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