Dance Show Satire

On Sept. 1st, students from different corners of campus were all sprinting towards one common location: Ridgewood. It was, once again, that time of the year when Brandeis University’s four improvisational comedy groups perform for an audience of returning students and new first-year students in the annual Improv Comedy Showcase; a showcase that serves as a tidbit for first-year students of what the university has to offer.

Mean Girls is a comedy full of memorable quotes, amusing characters, and lots of laughs for the audience, but what many people may not realize is that this movie includes psychological concepts such as role schemas, diffusion of responsibility and front and backstage effect. Mean Girls is about a girl entering a public high school for the first time after being homeschooled all of her life. While discovering herself throughout this life-changing event, she gets involved with a clique called "the plastics" and many games begin to unravel. This movie shows very amusingly yet real-life examples of psychological concepts that can help people recognize them in their everyday lives.

Richard Wright’s poem “Between the World and Me” mourns the tragic scene of a gruesome lynching, and expresses its harsh impact on the narrator. Wright depicts this effect through the application of personification, dramatic symbolism, and desperate diction that manifests the narrator’s agony.

Structuralism’s aim is to create collaborative and corporative relations amongst elements that has been spread out in both time and space, making them appear contrasted, implicated and connected by and to each other. Michael Foucault thus aims to further discuss and elaborate exactly this, speaking about spaces we find ourselves in (….) Foucault speaks about “other spaces” in time and history that can be referred to as “heterogeneous”, saying that the way we experience the world is through a network, which can be a metaphor of modern-day times, where points and elements connects within spaces (ISP).

It is almost always the answer, and I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t. I’ve been dancing since I was two. At that time, “dancing” was considered prancing around in pink sparkly tutus while pretending to be a prima ballerina.

The Fool's Errand was performed on April 17th, 2015, the first show on the last night of the Accademia dell'Arte grad lab presentations. This meant that when the audience arrived, the performance space was already set up for my show. The audience entered a quiet, dimly lit performance space surrounded by black curtains and facing a field of stars and the, as of yet unexplained, Moon Beam Lantern; glowing softly and suspended above. The house music was relatively low, though audible, and was made up of songs about the Moon and Fools. The sense of the space was dreamy and contemplative, like sitting outside on a summer evening watching the stars wheel overhead.

In a time of the Great Depression and the buildup to World War Two, the question of the significance of art in the 1930’s become of huge importance. The movie, Cradle Will Rock, sought to relate the development of a theatrical play in relation to its greater social environment in order to truly address the issues of the time. This movie captured the environment of the 1930s and the intricacies of the Federal Theatre Project by developing a character who stood for a larger idea and interweaving storylines in order to highlight the spectacle and rhythm of the time.

    Survival can have many different meanings depending on the circumstance at hand. Surviving the first year of college, surviving social expectations, or surviving a car crash are all examples of obstacles that one must survive. Of course, survival has many levels that are ranked from a miniscule amount of importance or a decision that risks life or death. Although, my argument is mainly about superficial survival that has a temporary meaning to everyday life. Most people yearn for acceptance of any kind, whether it be from parents, peers, or even themselves. Acceptance can be examined, perhaps by the reputation that one upholds or how well someone fits into their social environment. One example of survival mechanisms based off on social survival is “The Narrative of Frederick Douglass,” for incorporating a sense that in the place of

Chores by Hoopla Clique was humorous and playful show that involved acrobatics and was performed at Ferny Grove State High School. During the play the humorous mood was created by the two actors Julian Roberts and Patrick Heilmann with their effective use of movement, tension of task and tension of surprise. This essay will analyse the humorous mood, tension of task and tension of surprise that the two actors created with the effective use of movement.

Many people can agree with the fact that society can be a controlling, manipulative beast. It’s hand persistently reaches out and drags unsuspecting victims into depths known as conformity. Over time, many people develop masks of their own to hide from this beast and to be seen as a typical and average person. But by doing this, these people hide parts of themselves from others, making themselves seem one-dimensional. They hide behind these masks they form, and conceal themselves from the terrifying, outside world. Duality is then manifested from this side hidden from society, and for good or for bad, people learn these hidden aspects of themselves. Although others may not yet know of these hidden sides of subjects, one

The world finds a way to inject twisted chaos into our lives day by day. We struggle with difficulty, we prevail against adversity, and the whole process repeats. It is a strenuous cycle and at times, the chaos is absurd and unwarranted. It hinders your progress like a dam that halts surging rapids. It does not sympathize or understand. You cannot get through because the wall is all you see. In these moments, the song “How Far We’ve Come” by Matchbox Twenty serves as the dramatic thrust I need to transcend the barrier. The song is a tribute to the past, a key that unlocks the jar of memories that I often indulge upon for energy. However, “How Far We’ve Come” is not only a tribute to the past. The song—much like its upbeat tempo—serves as a reminder that I need to break through the walls in front of me and continue onward with my life.

Chaos is present everywhere in society. The idea of chaos is the idea of the uncertain and unpredictable. The idea of order is the idea of pattern and structure. Despite this fact, order is always present within chaos if you look for the underlying patterns. These patterns of chaos make it predictable and brings order to the idea of chaos. To understand the very idea of chaos one must look at the origins of it.

PART:CULTURE AND HISTORY Playwright Leon Agulyansky: “Theatre played for me an important role since childhood”. Interview with the author of the play “Sparrow’s Nest”.

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

Human beings live their life full of questions. Those questions could be answered in two ways: the response of the scientist, or the response of the poet. I mean by the response of the scientist all the technical details that will prove the theory. On the other hand, the poet gives a more spiritual answer. For instance, “How does one die?” the scientist’s answer is: “all bodily functions, such as the brain, the heart, and the lungs stop functioning” the poet’s answer is: “one never dies, one always remains in the heart of those who remember him”.