This morning at Zeum, I finished my final project: Fantasy Seder. I performed the one girl play I'd written about how I imagined my family members at a Passover Seder. I was really unsure as to how I was going to be able to act out my different family members and really show the audience different personalities that I was hoping to portray. Recording myself was a bit nerve- racking because I wanted the audience to see what I saw as I was writing the script.
I enjoyed recording myself because I was finally able to make a project that I help kids do everyday when I work at Zeum.
All the kids I work with take their performance so seriously and they really have a vision of how they want their performance to be. When I was recording myself at the production stage, I felt like a visitor, like I was new to the experience even though I've worked at the production stage so many times. I wanted my performance to be right what I wanted. I did a practice run-through, and then did another two more practice runs, until I was finally happy with it, and hopefully those who watch it will be happy with it too.
I've been working at Zeum for two years, and over this time, I've seen Zeum change. The production stage in the Main Gallery is one exhibit that has changed a lot, and where I have become a lot more comfortable working. When I first started working at Zeum, I hated working in the Main Gallery because I never felt like I was 100% prepared to help kids produce a performance.
With Zeum changing over these two years, I've changed a lot too.
These days, working at the production stage in the Main Gallery is never dull, helping kids make their own masterpieces. I have become much more confident, and I have much more to say to visitors and helping them make a great performance. Because I feel more confident working in the Main Gallery, I was able to make a great performance of my own, using the same skills I use to help visitors.
Watching my final project made me feel proud of performing something and I felt that I really portrayed what I wanted the audience to see.
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YEA, I AGREE IT SEEMS SO EASY TO TELL KIDS HOW TO GET UP THERE AND MAKE A VIDEO. THEN WHEN YOU GET UP THERE AND PERFORM YOURSELF YOU KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY GO THROUGH AND IT MAKES THE PROCESS EVEN MORE FUN. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEE YOUR PLAY A ONE PERSON PERFORMANCE IS INTERESTING GOOD LUCK
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