Hello, hello. Returned from our 4 day excursion to Venice yesterday. Such a cool, beautiful, unique city--anyone can take a gorgeous picture there with any camera. So these are my attempts. I got so frustrated with how touristy the entire city was--but it wasn't completely impossible to find signs of real life. Lets see, some highlights. The trip was paid for by ADA (my school), so we only had to pay for food. Our hostel was nice, and there's no WAY I would've paid that much for a room if I was funding this trip! We had class one day on the island of Guidecca, so we had free Vaporetto (like the subway, only boats) passes for a day. One day we decided to meet as a group (the 15 theater students) in Piazza San Marco and do some guerilla street theater--it was moderately successful! We just did some simple movement stuff and headstands. People were taking pictures of us! And that night I came back with some friends and we walked in slow motion with some quick starts and stops across huge stretches of the piazza. Looks WAY cooler that it sounds. People video taped us and applauded! And one guy came up after and said "Bravi!", so that was very exciting. We all decided to watch the sunset on Sunday morning over San Marco. It was exhilerating and a bit nervewracking walking alone through the still alleways. The normal hustle and bustle adds so much character to the city. And San Marco looked so defeated in the morning light--there were no people to disguise the fading, crumbling exterior. And, as is usually the case, we did a TON of roaming and exploring. I got lost a few times, looked in about 1000 glass/mask shops, ate gelato once a day, and took pictures of lots of mundane things. Here are (hopefully) the most interesting and beautiful!
Top Pictures:
L: Little boy statue at the end of the island--Punta della Dogana.
R: an amazing old bookstore near our hostel. Right on the river and full of old books in every language. I got Twelfth Night in Italian!
Bottom: About 7:00 a.m. I get the expression "rosy fingered dawn"!
Streetlights are beautiful.
At the Guggenheim modern art museum 2 pictures above; below that is excitement about 50 cent gondola ride!
L: firefighter band in san marco.
+sunset from Vaporetto
+glass on Murano, the famous glass blowing island.
+our awesome rehearsal space!
+performing in San Marco. Note people (fine, person) watching in background.
R: hanging out with Marcello, an acting teacher from the Accademia. We watched an open rehearsal of a show he's currently working on.
Formatting these posts with pictures is QUITE annoying. Captions are almost impossible. (I've probably been working on this for an hour, so no complaining that it STILL looks crappy! aihw;erh;wor how frustrating!) Anyways, hope yall like the pictures!
Today we had our first class with the new Italian teacher--she's DYNAMITE. thanks GOODness! Our class is so happy that we get a competent person! And this week we get more Commedia classes--today was a really exciting 4 hour class. We did a cool exercise where we physicalized 4 stages of life: curious child, bold teenager, hardened middle-ager, and dying old person. The trick was in the eyes and not overacting. It was so challenging and took all of us on quite a psychological journey. I'm exploring the character Colombina. I love working with masks--we have 6 hours more tomorrow! Yay!
Goodnight!
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