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Blog Post 5: Changes to My Study Programme

 This is my last year studing Theatre. It was a long process, I took a year for myself in the middle and then, when I came back, there was another career curriculum, that made me add one more year of studies. The english course for example, was not on the original curriculum, so I had to take all the classes in a row. The career is divided by 4 central areas: body expression/movement, vocal expression, acting and theory. In my experience, the area that captivated me the most was body expression, I feel that I could improve a lot and discover a lot of thibgs about myself in the process. The area that was the hardest for me was theory. I never studied art theory before university, I only had taken theatre courses at my school. But luckily, I could adapt and focus on studing and passing the tests. The faculty of theatre is located on Morandé 750, where only two careers take place: Theatrical Acting and Theatrical Design. The faculty is very defficient in many ways: there space is very lim

Time travel to the past

 If i had to make the decision to travel to the past or future, i prefer traveling to the past.  Currently, the world has advanced to a more artificial place, with more garbage, and without natural places. I dont like this, and i don’t have much hope of change in the behavior of humans. For this reason i prefer traveling to the past.  Specifically to the 70´s. i like this decade for many reasons. One is for the music, if i travel to the 70´s i could listen to artists that i really like at their best moment. I could go to a concerts of: Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Bob Marley, Queen, Chavela Vargas, and many more. Also in Chile in beginning of the 70´s i could see the project of Allende and how was the workers arrival to power. What came after with the coup was terrible but the first years (1970-1971) i have been told that they were beautiful and full of hope. Also in this decade ocurred the best performances of Jerzy Grotowski, a director of theatre that is a big inspiration to me. In thi