paucartambo

so in less than a week we WILL present our performance based on the paucartambo festival, we will, i'm serious. and along the way we have encountered some major issues, the first one being that we are not actually IN paucartambo therefore we are "bending" the tradition to fit with our environment and society (basically a way of pleasing our paucartamboknowledge-free audience) however the things we bent are no longer working or weren't put into action at all: for example the saqra costumes, we agreed to make them more colorful and chicha however we have not because we decided to go with the traditional-ish and keep the shape of the costumes but use ones we already have, the ones from la vida es sueño, so when do we have to stop and realize that what we want cannot be done so we must work with what we have? and do we have to change our concept to fit our needs? or do we change our needs to fit our concept? and if so, will this make the play more succesful? because overly produced plays can be quite the charmers with the audience but sometimes they just feel it's too much, like eating a whole cake by yourself so when do we know that we must: a) produce more in terms of design? or b) keep things simple?

another problem we encountered is that during rehearsals (many rehearsals, this does not match the tradition since the actors in paucartambo don't rehearse a lot, however it is understandable since they have been learning the dances since they were born.) we do not bring the energy needed for the actual performance day, however when we rehearsed with the Ib students i felt we kind of fed off their energy (we weren't very energetic when it was just the 5 of us.) so i realize that it's important to rehearse with all the actors, especially when doing something that requires a great deal of enthusiasm and energy so that the actors can feed off each others and so that the director has a clear idea of how the performance is going to look, this leads me to think about how it is important to have all the elemnts of a performance ready when rehearsing (at least the last couple of rehearsals) so that the actors can get used to the new sorroundings and work together with the elements in order to produce a higher quality performance.

so i have come to one conclusion and question, how will we, no more than 10 students be able to represent and convey the amount of energy the paucartambo festival (with definitely more than 10 people) has? because there's only so much we can do especially because some of the attitudes we have been giving aren't exactly positive, does it come from the fact that in paucartambo they do it as a tradition and there is more of a love for the festival? or is it just pure coincidence? or is it the fact that during the rehearsals we are bland but when the actual performance comes we will give it 200% (this is usually what happens in our plays) and also considering the audience's energy we will be able to feed off theirs to?