Second Post: What About Rodenburg?

1. Patsy Rodenburg defines presence as the fundamental connection between you and something else. It's giving something/someone your absolute attention.

2. Presence is very much so lost when you are dealing with insecurities and focusing on your weakness as an actor rather than just having a genuine reaction about what the other person is doing on stage. It can translate both as the 1st circle when you are sending the energy toward yourself for self reflection or 3rd circle for when you are overcompensating for the lost presence. I certainly feel a loss in presence if I am thinking about what's the next thing to do for the scene or if what I am saying at the moment is coming out clearly rather than giving my attention to the other person.

3. The 1st circle is the circle that has all the energy of attention completely or almost completely towards yourself. You are paying attention to the inner monologue going on inside your head. I suffer a lot from memory loss, so I'm so conscious of the fact that I might forget a line or two in the midst of what I am doing, so I retreat into 1st circle the most often when I need to reassure myself that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do.

4. The 3rd circle, in essence, is the outer energy that projects way more than you have to when you are with another person to get their attention. This is the energy often used to take control of the room or a situation. I am not the most confident person, so I typically do not go into this circle. I cannot even account a time where I have actually used this in any given situation.

5. The second circle is the energy that combines the energies of 1st and 3rd circle and creates a harmony of the internal and the external control of the situation. This is the energy of survival. You pay absolute attention to everything going around you and then you react accordingly. Because if you think too much about what's going on in the past or the future then you might lose the moment and miss something that might be essential to you. It totally reminds me of playing a video game. If you  lose one moment of attention than that could mean the difference between a win or a loss. My brother cheats so he was distracting me from playing the game by shouting and screaming next to my ear. So, the moment I took time away from the screen to tell him to shut up the moment, that's the moment when he got a head of me and it was hard to get back into the momentum of the game.

First Post: All About Me

1. I am taking this class because I feel that it's necessary to take for my career path.

2. I am a Theatre Major concentrating in performance.

3. I'm an Introvert, but it's more like 50/50 depending on the day.

4. My hobbies and interests include (but not limited to) singing, philosophy, art, and languages.

5. Presence, in my opinion, means being connected and open to everything happening around you. Not focusing on what happened or what will happen. I would like to think I have presence because I try to have it everywhere in my daily life.

6. For the most part, I feel comfortable with it. But some days I'm like, 'Eh, Could use a tad more exercise.'

7. I love to do some hip hop dance moves. I am confident in that part about how I move. I also appreciate the way I walk.

8. I am so self-concious about doing anything big or strong in movement because it doesn't always end up working out the way I would like it to go; especially when it has to be something graceful.

9. I hope that I develop more of an understanding about the way I move across the stage. I would like to have a little more confidence in purpose and develop good execution in the way I take to the stage.

10. I would like to go to grad school to learn more about the stage. And maybe around the same time within ten years I would have an established career of being a singer/actor.