ARTS BEYOND DISTANCE SEASON 2
Grace Looi
INXO Online Talk Series
Guest Speaker:
Grace Looi 呂俊霖
About her:
Grace is the founder and director of the Greenhopper Children’s Theater, a famous local children drama director, a full-time drama educator who has 16 years experience. She participated in many projects, including Children’s Drama, Speech and Drama, Teacher Training Camp, Life Education Courses, Thematic Teaching and the Primary and Secondary School Camp Planning. She has been invited to Singapore, China Guangzhou, Beijing, Yunnan, and other places to plan and guide children’s drama and teacher training courses.
Host:
Tan E-Jan (CEO of INXO Productions)
Date:
05/05/2020 (Tuesday)
Time:
8pm – 9pm
Language:
Mandarin
Key Takeaway:
- Grace considers herself a playful person. She thinks that playfulness is one of the most important personality traits of an artist. The creation of works requires a certain degree of playfulness, because it triggers people to explore, and there are so much things to explore in this ever-changing era.
- Grace believes that the sense of mission is important too, it allows everyone to move towards the same goal. After setting a mission, you will then be aware of your founding aspiration. Even if you encounter distraction or influence halfway, the sense of mission will always be able to remind you to be back on track.
- For Grace, it is very important to understand the venue of the theater.
- Instead of expanding the audience base by putting in a lot of resources, Grace is more willing to focus on drama teaching.
- For Grace, the most enjoyable part of her creation experience, is to start something from scratch.
- She likes to integrate the actors’ views, her views or some other new ideas into her creation, and getting inspirations from the actors’ spontaneous response before the scripts is ready. For Children’s dramas, it is relatively physically demanding and requires young spirits to participate in. It is safer to have the script ready first and work according to the script.
- Grace’s greatest fear is encountering mishaps on stage. There are many uncertainties on stage, even from the audience. However, in her past experience, these are blessings in disguise, as some of the accidents were resolved in a good way. These accidents might seem went off track but they actually created a different experience which were memorable.
- She thinks we should let go of our prejudice when we create and after that we try to achieve balance with adding in our own point of view.
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Podcast Intro & Outro Music Credit:
ACOUSTIC BREEZE | ROYALTY FREE MUSIC
Composer: Benjamin Tissot
