Dress Code!

My very first thought about theatres in Austria and England was the "dress code"! They are very different to each other...

Here are some examples:

This is my friend and me before we were watching a musical in Austria.

This is Cassie and me in a theatre in England. You can't really see what I was wearing but I basically wore a long sleeved shirt, jeans and a scarf.

I think you can all see the differences now..

The first time when my mum and I went to a theatre in London we were a bit shocked!! Because people were walking into the auditorium with some shopping bags, food/snacks, wine (!!) and most of the people wore trainers and daily clothes. We both looked at each other and were like "what the hell are they wearing?!" We couldn't really believe what we saw...

...I think you can compare it a bit with our "we are going to the cinema" - outfit.

The last time I was in London I went to the theatre with a friend, who lives in London and my question to her was: "You know, what still really confuses me?...why are they all going to the theatre with normal/daily clothes on?" And my friend had actually a really good point. At first she also had to get used to it, because she is from Scotland and in her hometown they usually also wear dresses or nice clothes to the theatre. She explained to me that in England, or especially in London it is such an everyday thing you can do, because they have so many theatres and nowadays it is really easy to get some cheap tickets. Like we did on that night...on the same morning we just looked online and were searching for some good, but cheap tickets...and only after about five minutes we found some!

On the other hand in Austria it is not as easy as that, I mean I'm sure you can get tickets on the same day but I am pretty sure that they would be very expensive. Normally when my family and I are going to the theatre we book our tickets at least a month before.

I think it will always be a bit weird for me when I see the other people with some shopping bags or snacks in a theatre in England, because for me it's normal when I go to a theatre in Austria, it means I have to put on some nice clothes, pretty jewellery, lovely shoes and some make up :) 

Skype session

Hi everyone!

Yesterday I had a one to one skype session with Paula. The reason I wanted to skype with my tutor was, because I got stuck in finding an interesting inquiry theme. I  read a few blogs from different students, who already found their perfect topics.... when I read them I got a bit stressed out because I haven't found mine yet. However, I am so glad I had the skype session because now I've got a starting point.

The first question Paula asked me was "What am I interested in?".

My answer to that was "I would love to write something about D A N C E, and I would like to look further into it."
But dance is such a huge topic...so Paula and me started brainstorming. My problem also is that I don't have a dance job at the moment, which I could take as my inquiry. Paula asked me if she can be a bit nosy and she wanted to know what my jobs are at the moment. I told her that I have got one promotion job and a bar job. My tutor then was thinking that I maybe could look further into my promotion job but I honestly had to say that I am not very interested in that and it wouldn't be fun to write about...

....I then had an idea!!

Because I'm not english and I live in Austria at the moment, I thought I could write something about the difference from Austria and England. We then kept on brainstorming...

- Austrian theatres .... how are they different to english ones? (art form)
- literature ... how is it different to England?
- performance ... how is the performance different in those two countries?
- how do the teacher teach differently?
- find some practitioners...
- compare the two countries..
- do they have any similarities?
- what genre do I want to look at?


Personally I think this is a really good starting point.. and I am very glad that I had the skype session with Paula.
It is very interesting for me to research about those questions, especially for me, because I have already trained in Austria and in England, so I am sure I have got some good comparisons. :)

VS.