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SMP Presentations

I went to both Amy and Tom's SMP presentations. I thought they were both really well done and put together. You could see the great quantity of research and work that went into them that would have primarily have been lost if you had just been viewing the artwork, especially with Amy's. When looking at Amy's artwork you just see a pretty basic run of the mill children's book, but after hearing her presentation you can start to see how she work through her basic ideas and decisions to come up with a book that was both fun and educational. Amy did a lot of research on phonics and how to best help children how to read. She then applied this knowledge to her children's book creating an colorful and fun filled learning adventure of "Where's that Bear?".
Tom on the other hand was talking about how photography can be used to celebrate life. Throughout his comical presentation he delves into this idea of the frozen moment in time that one is able to capture through photography and how through doing that without setting up the shot is actually capturing certain glimpse and moments in life.

Dance Show

I went to the St Mary's Dance Club's Dance Show a few weeks ago. It was actually for the most part really well done even though it did seem to go on for longer then necessary. It was amazing how well some of the dances were choreographed, especially when knowing that they had each been choreographed by a fellow student. Of course some were better then others and there were a few in between that were just down right bad, but those tended to get outweighed by the large quantity of really good dances. I'll have to say that my favorite dances were the more cultural ones such as the belly-dancing and the salsa dancing. I think the belly-dancing could have been slightly more interesting, but the costumes were very colorful and pretty. The one main complaint I had about the dance show was that it was really long, and that would generally be fine and all, but they would have to incorporate a bigger range of dances. It got to a point that while the music was different and the choreography was tailored to match the song, the basic style was still the same, and this went on for about 6 or 7 dances. So personally I think they should have gone back and maybe picked out two or three of the best ones and just cut down on time or incorporated a few more different dances, but I guess they probably just wanted to give everyone a chance to participate and create their own dances.

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The Mandrake

I went to the performance of "The Mandrake" last Thursday night, and while apparently they were having technical problems with the lights it was pretty visually interesting. The set was full of bright and vibrant colors as if you were at a carnival or in a circus tent, and they had this overlapping theme of the mask. I think the concept of the mask had its negative and positive aspects. The masks made it easy to vary the actors ages and stage personalities. But at the same time the masks covered up the actors expressions, and with a straight forward plot line, like the one found in "The Mandrake", it is the actors visual expressions and gesturing that make the play visually interesting. Especially because it seemed like they were going for a simplicity in the set common to the plays preformed in Niccolo Machiavelli's time. While I think there were ways the director could have made the play a little more visually interesting, the play did bring together a slap-stick comedy full of laughs and good humored smiles.