Hi everyone!
Today is the start of our 3 long day rehearsals with Mashirika! We got to ISHYO around 11ish and started sharing ideas for what we wanted our play to be about. I was getting a little stressed about how we were going to take our experiences here and put them on the stage. But today was a huge success. First we spit out themes and ideas for what our piece could include or center around. We then split off into two groups. One being the "song" group and the other a dance group. Each group was responsible for creating an original song or dance that we could bring back to the whole group to share. I was in the song group and I can honestly say that I am no good at writing songs or making a song. After working through it we finally came out with a song that actually fit perfectly with the others' dance.
For lunch we walked a mile down the road to a nice restaurant where we got the traditional Rwandan meal---Mmm Mmm Good.
We worked on other original scenes and dance until about 5pm. Whatever we end up with before we leave we will be performing it on Wednesday night at the ISHYO Performing Arts Center. Mashirika invited tons of people but who knows who will show up. And whatever we have we will take back to Buffalo State and work on it more in our Ensemble Theater class.
More rehearsing to come tomorrow!
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