Apac Dance - Sorry..

Apac Theatre
I haven't put this up on the main google docs because I hadn't attended it.
On the first day (Thursday?) , I wasn't able to attend because I felt really sick from the swimming meet I had before. On the second day of apac theatre, I had to practice swimming and then went home because the performances were scheduled to start later and I didn't want to go home and back because I live 40 mins away...
However, what I can write about on this blogpost, is my amazement with Kathakhali dance. When somebody in the class had brought up the fact that kathakhali dancers had put peppers in their eyes (pepper seeds?) to make the red-eye effect, I was amazed. The level of dedication that a performer has to have, to pull something like this off is breathtaking. If I'm correct, it's a part of method acting, right? And that's something I love about theatre and film, method acting. It shows how much effort and sacrifice a performer has to offer in an acting/dance.

I had also read somewhere that kathakali had to undergo classes that focused on khatakali eye-coordination techniques and practice. Something that Mrs. Moon had reiterated in class from a reading was that you could spot out an amateur performer by looking at their eyes. The more calm, collected, and smooth their eyes pace around the stage and into the audience, the better control they have as an actor. The more fast and frantic the performer's eyes are, the less skilled they seem to be. This is another reason why I'm fascinated about the Khatakali performers.
Again, I love method acting. In the movie "The Machinist" in 2004, Christian Bale had eaten nothing but a can of tuna a day with some coffee. This had carried on for about two months. In the end, he had looked like a Jewish prisoner from a concentration camp. It's breathtaking, method acting :) I'm also really sorry for not attending the apac festival.