Monday, January 18, 2010

STAC Live

My last STAC Live has me feeling a bit nostalgic. For the four years I've been in STAC, all four STAC Lives I've participated in have been completely different from each other...some more successful than others, some more fun, some more disastrous. This year's is giving me mixed feelings...in a sense, it was very successful. This group works so great together, so we got a lot done and had a lot to present. However, the only negativity I can think of is the audience; as Luke said to me, they were flat-out hostile; it was really a challenge to get them to laugh or even have any kind of response at all...I've been in front of audiences a countless amount of times, but this is the first time I've gotten such a negative energy from them. Luke made an observation that never occurred to me before: STAC Live is kind of like a dog-and-pony show...we're just there to prove to a bunch of people who don't care that we're not a waste of time and that we're actually very productive and intelligent, when in reality, we shouldn't have to prove anything to anyone. Regardless, STAC Live has always been fun to me, and I personally like the performance version of it better than the participatory version we did last year. In summation, this year's STAC Live: eye-opening, surprising, and a little harsh, but enjoyable nevertheless.
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  1. Becky GraceJanuary 18, 2010 at 12:18 PM

    I thought we as a group this year put on a great show. The movies were great and the improv funny. We have chemistry that groups in the past didn't have as much of.

    I think STAC live needs to be narrow casted instead of broad casted. Right now we're playing to people who want to see the freak show. The thing that was good about last year, was that people who stayed to participate with us actually wanted to be there, while the people who just wanted to get out of class turned around and left.

    I like the performance aspect better too, but I don't think it's working to our advantage. STAC live is supposed to be about marketing and advertising towards people who are interested in the program already, it's not supposed to be about coming up with something artistically profound or interesting to show.

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  2. heyitsashleyyJanuary 18, 2010 at 2:24 PM

    I agree one hundred percent. As a group, we work extremely well together. I kind of had the same aspect as Luke. I thought of it more of a show-and-tell. We would go up there and show people what we have, and they would sit there and either be like, 'wow!' or 'eh.', but we got nothing.
    but in the end, "this year's STAC Live: eye-opening, surprising, and a little harsh, but enjoyable nevertheless."

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