SCENE IV: NO CAKE WALK APRIL
Even with the smaller shows, I feel like I bared my soul. MARY
Even if it’s just a lit le seed that gets planted, you have an entire fi rst-year class, and some of them are really into it, and others don’t like it, others fi nd it a lit le challenging, you’ll hear hissing from the audience. You’re hearing it while it’s happening, but when you get into those smaller facilitation sessions, you realize that CloseUp did really challenge people on their very fi rst stint on campus. And this is what college is about.
Gayle DEREK
For me personally, just being part of the Troupe was like that (challenging). I don’t think I appreciated it at the time, but it put me in an uncomfortable situation and allowed me to be friends with people that I was not allowed to be friends with. It allowed me an opportunity to see people as they truly are. Which helps me especially in my professional life, because I’ve managed thousands of people now, of all diff erent backgrounds.
MARY
I think that absolutely the most important thing I ever got out of CloseUp is that if I ever expect people to listen to me, I have to listen to them. And that’s not something I ever understood before that. And people sat in that audience and didn’t want to hear some of the things we had to say, and at endance was mandatory for them.
DECKY
If people are a lit le uncomfortable (at the shows), they’re present in the moment. T ere’s also the idea of reciprocity, so in order for them to cultivate discomfort in the audience, they have to be uncomfortable themselves, right? So, those moments of discomfort… those are moments of wide-awakeness. T ere’s a diff erence between alienation and shocking them… it’s not crazy like that.
It’s not threatening to them, it’s just uncomfortable. Life is like that. And if you can have those moments where you can navigate and negotiate those feelings in a relatively safe space, it’s much bet er than out there, in the world around us. 3
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