3rd Assignment: Work of Art

After a successful season on January of this year, the theatre company "Compañia de Teatro de Chile", came back to Matucana 100 with the mounting "Cristo". This work is directed by Manuela Infante and consists in the fifth production of the company. It is also financed by FONDART.

I didn't new anything about this work of art until April this year, when my girlfriend invited me to see it. She needed to see this mounting for a subject in the University.

The theatre work is not about religion or history, as somebody could think. It is about three actors and two technists with the problem of representing Christ. It is also about the problematic of representing a representation. What happens with the content of what we understand as "real" if we dedicate us to represent something that is already a representation?

I loved this work of theatre. I think that is a new kind of the gender, which makes you think a lot. At the time of exiting the theatre all the people were commenting really good things about the mounting.

It is a "must see" work.

The Psychology in Sport

I´ve just read an article on the BBC Radio report’s archive about the use of psychology in sport. It started with the question whether psychology can help Nasser Hussain and the England cricket team to improve the performance in this sport. In the following week the England team was going to face a very important match against the australian cricket team.

It seems that the australian team have increased his performance recently. For example they reached the final of Wimbledon. A possible explanation of that succees could be that the australian team has a full-time psychologist available to the team at any time. The England team used to have one, but they released him many years ago.

Bob Woolmer, a cricket coach, thinks that "expanding the players mind", the level of the game should improve a lot.

If you want to read the complete article, just click on the following link direction:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/archive/science_nature/sport_psychology.shtml