Miyuki y los 2 mercaderes

Giving your own sense to things. Wouldn't that stop applying if you already know from the beginning that the concept is?

We knew the concept of plate tectonics and equivocation all along, and that makes it quite difficult to make our ideas (the ones who were in the making process) differ from each other.
What is the difference between giving a sense to something, and making the something? How can make sense? Or you can't?

I wasn't thinking about this until roberto told us in one of our classes that things don't have sense, but you give sense to things. From the start, i thought that the sense/concept of the play was ONLY the ones we were making in on (plate tectonics and equivocation) but then i started to give the play a different sense, although it was difficult because the 2 thoughts got confused.

The music in kabuki was really interesting, because when i first starting with my research, i found out it was mainly percussion... a hell lot of it, apart from the shamisen (a 3 stringed guitar) and the nohkan (a bamboo flute), and so i thought it was gonna be a tough job getting the music done with the musicians, but when they came and had to play, it actually came out easily and fast, and although yeah... we could only use mostly percussion, we did some pretty neat music for the play, especially the entrances.

Learning kabuki was actually entertaining and interesting. The theatre tradition at the start seemed really annoying, but it was just really different to what we were used to, and after knowing more about it, it came out to be really cool, and i actually liked acting kabuki. The music wasn't the best approach to understanding it though, i did more by the handouts and my friends presentations, and the exam.

Kabuki, with its extravagant costumes, weird noises and really different type of acting will be something difficult to forget, because it was really amazing stuff we worked with, but i wonder, why do we find it so amazing? Is it REALLY as big as we see it? or is it just different? Because what we normally see in theatre is not so exagerated and does not contain makeup like this, or costumes, like this. So is our "normal" type of theatre, for someone used to kabuki all his life, as big and amazing as kabuki is for us? Or is it just different?

There doesn't seem to be a small kind of theatre, even peruvian theatre, which i thought years ago to be really boring and with no interesting history at all, found out about yuyachkani and now abou the paucartambo festival that can be treated as theatre... i actually never thought of it as theatre, but now that i do, i can compare it to kabuki... but that would be too difficult, as kabuki and paucartambo are really different. But the point is that theatre is never "worse" than others, just different. And studying different kind of theatre traditions help you to find more about the culture and and making those connections make it a lot more interesting, but how far does this connection between what you see on stage and the everyday life of people that live within that culture... i mean, you don't see people in peru running around with bull testicles or you don't see japanese people walking like they had a strange infection in their ass all over the place... >.>

But some parts of it can actually be related to the everyday life... then it is a really fascinating way of making connections, between what you see on the theatre of a culture, and the culture itself. Therefore, if you can connect the society and their culture to the theatre, then when people go to the theatre (of their own society) they feel identified? Are we gonna feel identified with the performers in Paucartambo? Is that one of the main aspects of theatre, to see yourself on stage and feel like you could be one of them? After all, the stage is (according to me) just another reality of the world we all live everyday, so why not? It is like a mirror that gives you a different perspective of yourself? Or a portrait of every surrounding you, as you feel identified with a actor and found connections between your reality and the stages reality? Could that be one of the main purposes of making theatre?