ADVANCED VISUAL COMMUNICATION (from my prospective): April 2011

I thought that the Paige in Full performance was really nice. I did not expect it to be as good as it was. At the beginning I did not know if I was going to be as drawn into the performance but I was. The way the show was set up, was like a black box theater performance. I felt it was very interesting how this performance incorporated video slide show, DJ, sound effects, and music. This was all combined with the excellent performance of Paige Hernandez who was the star of the show. She seemed like a very charismatic passionate person. Also her brother Nick Hernandez accompanied her and he was the DJ for the show. The main objective of this show was for Paige to express and tell her life story threw the art of Hip hop. She did this with music, dancing, spoken word, and rapping. The show also consisted of some audience interaction were at one point she tested the audience on their Hip hop knowledge.

The show started off with her telling about her growing up as a kid in Baltimore. She said it was not easy especially because she was different from most of the girls she went to school with. She explained that she is Black, Chinese, and Cuban, and how she did not fit in with the other kids. She explained a little about her heritage and how this made her unique. Baltimore life for her was not easy because she had to deal with fitting in and being looked at as being different for the way she acted and the way she looked. She talked about how Hip-hop was an outlet for her. One of the shows she grew up on was Living Color and she could remember looking up to the Fly Girls that were on the show and pretending that she was one. She looked up to many Hip hop artists for inspiration such as Tupac who went to the same school as her. They both attended Baltimore School for the Arts. At the mid point of the show the vibe went from up beat and comical to kind of serious and somber when she talked about the day she lost her grandmother.

Going into the second part the vibe kind of stayed the same as she talked about growing up and meeting this man who she described as hardcore. She talked about how she felt the need to be tougher and how this guy was what she looked to give her that edge. In a very elegant way she talked about the bad things they did together and how he was leading her down the wrong path. Then one day he physically abused her and she saw that the relationship was going no were. To him she was just an accessory. The somber tone lifted as she fast forwarded to later on and she met a new guy who lifted her spirits and made her believe in herself.