Theater relates to my life in many ways. I think that any job I hold I will use the creativity model to get work done. Every process has to have an impulse to create, preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification/revision. No idea that I have for anything is going to work right away. You have to come up with an idea, gather information, ponder the solutions for awhile, let one pop into your head, and then verify if it works or decided if the process needs to be repeated giving you a better solution. This process usually occurs with every problem in life and I have definitely used it in the past. I just never knew that it was an aspect of theater.
Another major aspect of theater that I use in my life is acting. Throughout my life time I have assumed many roles. When I was younger I played soccer, figure skated, danced, and did cheerleading. Those are all very different roles to play. Being a soccer player consisted of being very intimidating and aggressive. I could not be nice out on the field because it was a competition between me and the girl next to me on the other team. Being a figure skater and a dancer was being a performer. I had to be very happy and act as if I was enjoying what I was doing all of the time. There were times when you would be at a competition and you were having a bad day. You could not let those problems from earlier carry out onto the stage or ice. If you so, it would show on your face and the entire performance was ruined. Also, dancing and figure skating was done gracefully and had to look easy. Being a cheerleader is different from those two roles. In no way do cheerleaders look graceful. You are very stiff and give commanding performances. These roles all required being a different character.
Criticism in a part of theater and is a big part of my life. Criticism is something that I deal with almost everyday. Actors/actresses and people in theater receive criticism every show. This is what makes the shows better and improves my life. People involved get criticism from the audience, professional critics, and maybe even friends about what could be improved. I get criticism from my friends and family about how I doing in my life. You could say that my life is a show just like a production. I appreciate the criticism that I receive because I want to know what I can improve to make my life the best it can be. I accept it the way a theater does because they want to be the best and so do I. Criticism is something that will never go away and shouldn't. Criticism shouldn't be dished out to put someone down, but rather constructive. When researching Broadway, I saw reviews where people criticized some of the shows. Not everyone is going to like everything; just like everyone is not going to like everything I do in my life. Criticism also comes from many people. That gives me the option to take parts of everyone's ideas to get the best of both worlds. This again deals with theater because it is about taking lots of different ideas and putting them together. Lots of productions have taken ideas from multiple kinds of art to get their final product. A musical is an example of that. It contains singing and dancing together, which for a long time were done separately. I am able to take an array of ideas to produce a final product.
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