Pantomime

Pantomime was a completely new experience for me. For some inexplicable reason, I was really nervous going up there. I had worse butterflies than for piano recitals or any other performances. Anyways, pantomime is really hard, the way you need to keep track of all the objects you used, where everything is, and not accidentally walking through something that was supposed to be solid. Mimes make it look so easy the way they can just walk imaginary dogs and trap themselves in a box like it was real. I also finally understood why they wear the clothes they do with the make-up. It just shows how extremely talented they are. They don't incorporate ANYTHING that may tell the audience what they are trying to show but instead they communicate so well through their actions that it seems so obvious. It was pretty cool watching everyone else do their pantomimes, too, because everyone had such different ideas and concepts. I found it extremely difficult to keep track of where my faucet was and I didn't even realize that I just forgot about the towel I was holding. It just disappeared into thin air like I was Luna Lovegood or someone cool like that (I noticed that I make a lot of references to Harry Potter). Not being able to talk when I thought my actions weren't clear enough was hard, too. I felt like no one would understand what I was trying to do. It was pretty awesome how people could tell though.