It is our second day during this camp. Let me talked about somrthing happened this morning. After the wonderful breakfast, we rode the bus to go to Muzha in order to visit Utheatre, a famous theater to perform some skills of drum also combined with the elemente of a play. At first, all of us are not quite familiar with Utheatre. Hence, they played some episodes of their recordings for us. The video displays the inner culture of Taiwan, which is amazing to show the perfect combinition of arts and martial elements. Under the surface is the performers’ hard working and diligence, Not only entering the mountains ande forests but also getting close to people’s settlementand temple, those performers dig up the pure and authentic inner culture of Taiwan.
After the one and half hour introduction of Utheatre, it’s the time for us to practice those skills and performance showed in the video. The first thing we learned is trying to focus on our minds to be peaceful and blank, which is implied by the word “shen” referred to the status we tried to achieve. Moreover, we learned some dancing paces, which are the repeated swings of left-right and afterwards or backwards. With several times practices, we added the actions of our hands, lifting up and down which also repeated once and once again. Separately, the actions of feet or hands are prettey easy, yet it was not easy any more when we did the actions at the same time. The teacher repeated reminding us of our paces or hands, but I still mixed up the directions sometimes. The music played again and again and we practiced the same movements for endless times. With the tempo changed, slowly or fast, I tried focused not only on my paces but also on my peaceful spirits.
What came after the dancing course was the most exciting part---to play the drum. Away from my imagination, the skill of drum was quite hard to learn. Something basic to do before playing the drum is to do some exercise---to stretch out our bodies, exactly. Only with relaxed bodies can we performe the skill to the best. The postures, the ankles and the strength would be the factors for a good performance. After a while, the teacher finally taught us how to play a song. The former part was quite simple, yet the last part was totally another thing. The tempo became more complicated with the song proceeding, and I felt a little bit dizzy for memorizing the complex song. However, after practicing for several times, we really finish the performance by ourselves which gave me the sence of achievement. How wonderful it is for me to understand I also have the potential to do a drum performance. Ha~~
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